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• Comcasts Brian Roberts: The low-key exec who leads a high-profile giant

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 788
  Filed under: Company News , People , Media , General Electric , Comcast , Walt Disney Comcast ( CMCSA ) CEO Brian Roberts celebrated his 50th birthday in June by competing in and finishing the Philadelphia Triathlon along with a few top lieutenants. That may be good training for the task at hand. Roberts, ...
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• Zuck You!

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 152
  Deadline Hollywood Dailys Nikki Finke :  Warren Littlefield  [Wed. night]  held his annual NBC refugees dinner at Dan Tanas. This year, there was a long, long, long table of the ex-TV execs. Jeff Zuckers ears must have been burning. Some of the comments:    I was seated with my wife at a marginal ...
  3 days ago

• Comcast to Acquire Control of NBC Universal in $30B Deal

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  New York - Comcast (NASD: CMCSA) , the nations largest cable TV provider, announced on Thursday thatit has agreed to acquire majority ownership of NBC Universal from GeneralElectric (NYSE: GE) , in a deal valued at more than $30 billion. Facilitating the agreementis a deal that will see FrancesVivendi sell its 20% ...
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• Why Comcast Will Stay Hands Off Hulu, for Now

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 737
  Hulu and its broadcast TV owners have been pretty clear about their interest in creating a premium/subscription offering for the free site . Conventional wisdom is that we’ll see something early next year. Does Comcast (CMCSA) have other plans? COO Steve Burke made it seem this way this morning, when he told ...
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• Five changes Comcast should make to NBC

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 706
  Its official: GE has sold 51% of NBC Universal to Comcast , for approximately $6.5 billion dollars in cash (what are the odds theyll use this as an excuse to raise my cable bill again?). Itll take about a year to go through the regulatory and anti-trust gauntlets, but after that, the cable giant will be in charge. ...
  3 days ago

• Comcast Buys a Bunch of Awesome Cable Networks and Some Broadcast Thing Called NBC [Christmas Shopping]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  GE and Comcast officially announced that this morning that theyve come to terms on a deal over NBC Universal . Its really, really complicated, but the upshot is that Jeff Zucker still has a job for some reason. Comcast will own 51% of NBC Universal , and GE will own 49%. Its simple really: NBC will borrow $9.1 ...
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• Comcast to Buy NBC

  
  Kreuzer's Korner — Authority: 143
  General Electric and Comcast announced a joint venture worth a combined $37.25 billion today that will give the cable company eventual control of NBC Universal. From CNN Money : In the complex deal, NBC Universal will borrow $9.1 billion from third-party lenders to distribute to parent company General Electric. GE ...
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• NBCs Butt Boy Bill

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 152
  NYT TV scribe and author Bill Carters crawled out of NBC honcho Jeff Zuckers ass just long enough write another book (a sequel to "The Late Shift" maybe)?  Six figures he gets all the while toiling at the Times. Deadline Hollywood Dailys Nikki Finke swallowed a few Carters Little Livid pills and rips Carter a new ...
  4 days ago

• Zucker: For Time Being, Business as Usual at NBC

  
  DealBook — Authority: 756
  From Media Decoder: Jeff Zucker, NBCs chief executive, tells his troops in an internal memo that for the time being, its "business as usual" despite Comcasts buying control of the media company.
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• It’s Official: Comcast and GE To “Create Leading Entertainment Company”

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 789
  As has been rumored for awhile , Comcast and GE announced this morning they were forming a joint venture. Comcast would own 51%, GE would own 49%, Comcast would manage and the venture consists of NBCU businesses, Comcasts’s cable networks and certain digital properties, among other things. Some key points: • ...
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• For Time Being, Business as Usual at NBC Universal

  
  Media Decoder — Authority: 719
  In Comcasts bid to gain control of NBC Universal, "there are so many possibilities to imagine," said Jeff Zucker, NBCs chief executive, in a memorandum to employee Thursday morning. But for the time being, it is "business as usual."
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• NBC Comcast Reach Deal

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 152
  BREAKING NEWS:   GE has reached an agreement to sell a 51 percent controlling interest to Comcast for nearly $14 bil .  In answer to MSBNCs "Morning Joe" Scarboroughs query earlier this week:  the guy youll be sucking up to is Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.  You can take down that photo of Jeff Immelt... Joes reax ...
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• Comcast Acquires Majority Ownership of NBC From GE

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 795
  Filed under: Media After nine months of negotiations, Comcast has agreed to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, the New York Times reports . The deal, which will give the countrys largest cable provider a 51 percent share of NBC, will reshape the television industry and fulfill Comcasts longtime goal of ...
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• Jeff Zucker "wears very well?"

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 152
  Bill Carter NYT :  Mr. Zucker’s future role with the newly formed entity, with Comcast controlling 51 percent and G.E. 49 percent, will be cemented, an executive involved in the talks said, when it is officially announced, which is expected to be on Thursday. Mr. Zucker will be getting a new long-term contract ...
  5 days ago

• Surviving NBCs Upheaval

  
  DealBook — Authority: 756
  Jeff Zucker, a lightning rod in the TV business long before he became chief of NBC Universal, now finds himself at the center of one of the biggest deals in media -- the $30 billion plan to shift control of the company from General Electric to Comcast .
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• With Negotiations Stalled, Broadcast Union Launches Site on The Grinch at NBC; Theatens to Disrupt NBCs Annual Holiday Telecast

  
  Home | The New York Observer — Authority: 751
  Happy holidays, NBC! Today, National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA) Local 11, which represents several thousand employees at NBC Universal, announced that they are celebrating the holidays at NBC by launching a web site, http://NBCStoleChristmas.com, highlighting "the Grinch within ...
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• Speed Read for Tuesday, Dec. 1

  
  Media Decoder — Authority: 719
  Highlights from Tuesdays media coverage.
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• Scythe Matters

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 152
  "NBC is sadly the fourth-place network; actually, were in ninth place if you count the radio stations ahead of us right now, I really believe that if everyone in this room would watch NBC for one night then that would be a 40 percent [ratings] increase."   Tina Fey On Philadelphia-based Comcast NBC ...
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• The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks [Trade Roundup]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  In a few months, after New Moon leaves the theaters, we will celebrate the milestone of being halfway through our national Twilight journey, with only two more films to go. But first we have to get through this weekend. • After all the build-up, the actual film seems rather beside the point. But New Moon ...
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• Sirius XM CEO "Perfect" to Run Comcast-NBCU–Not That Sirius XM CEO Would Want To

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
  Good thing Comcast (CMCSA) and General Electric (GE) plan to name NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker as head of their proposed joint venture, because Sirius XM (SIRI) CEO Mel Karmazin doesn’t want the job. Not that he wouldn’t be a good candidate to run a merged Comcast-NBCU. Because as Karmazin himself ...
  2 weeks ago

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