Stephen Burke will become the new head of NBC Universal once Comcast assumes control of the media giant, the companies said Sunday.
There's only one thing for sure about the future of the NBC network and that is that it will have to go on without current president and chief executive officer of NBC Universal, Jeff Zucker.
Jeff Zucker, the President and Chief Executive Officer of NBC Universal, said Friday that he will step down as the head of the media giant when Comcast assumes control of NBC.
Robert Gates The Secretary of Defense will continue in that position in the Obama administration for at least another year, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. "Secretary Gates met with the president just before Christmas and gave him a commitment to stay on the job for at least another year," Geoff Morrell, deputy assistant secretary of defense and Pentagon press secretary, told CNN. Gates served as Secretary of Defense in the last two years of the Bush administration and stayed on in the post when President Obama took office. According to his biography, Gates is the only defense secretary in U.S. history to be asked to remain in office by a newly elected president. Gates once served as president of Texas A&M University.
General Electric and Comcast announced a joint venture worth a combined $37.25 billion on Thursday that will give the cable company eventual control of NBC Universal.
The host thanks Monica Lewinsky, Michael Jackson and Bill Clinton in front of a cheering crowd
Fortune: The playerupdated: Mon Oct 27 2008 13:49:00
Ben Silverman e-mails from a stopover on the way back to Los Angeles from the Beijing Olympics:
"I don't have one," says the Today co-anchor. "I have good people"
A public wake, a private funeral and a televised memorial are set for the NBC newsman
For just shy of one month way back in 1995, the Walt Disney Company was poised to become the world's biggest media company after announcing it was buying ABC/Capital Cities. But mere weeks later, Time Warner announced it was buying Turner Broadcasting, putting itself back into the lead dog position among the media pack as measured by revenue, a position it held through its wayward combination with America Online and up to this week.
I am not standing near enormous platters of shrimp and sushi under a tent at Lincoln Center. I am not listening to Maroon Five play while the stars of "Gossip Girl" glow and mingle. I am not at the annual television upfronts because, as you may have heard, they don't really exist any more. They are over, a relic of the past like drive-in movies or bolo ties or Cabbage Patch dolls.
When Fox and NBC Universal announced last March that they would join forces to put their TV shows online, the pundits of Silicon Valley howled with derision. Old media doesn't get the Internet, they said. Michael Arrington, the influential editor of TechCrunch, rattled off the reasons the project would never succeed and suggested that Fox and NBC quickly name their joint venture before it got stuck with the moniker insiders at Google had reportedly given it: Clown Co.
On the surface, the Writers Guild strike was a showdown between writers and suits over compensation from new methods of distributing content. But, looking back over the three-month walkout, it also provided handy cover for the powers that be to derail the creative community's gravy train and rethink the way TV shows are made.
NBC Universal said Tuesday it will double the size of its cable operations outside the United States with the acquisition of Sparrowhawk Media, the private equity-backed owner of the Hallmark channel.
Amidst the maelstrom of must-dos hitting NBC Universal's new CEO - boot Don Imus, manage Alec Baldwin, turn around NBC, determine the company's digital future - Jeff Zucker has been trying to get to know his 16,000 employees. He's been holding monthly lunches and breakfasts with small groups.
MARKETS: Business is Back! April was such a charm! And here we are in May and the beat goes on. Like this on Wednesday: "Orders to U.S. factories surged in March by the largest amount in a year..." (Business is back!) TWX and YUM earnings were tasty and so we have another record for the Dow, crossing (Jordan) 13,200 for the first time. What was really nice to see was that the NAZ and S&P outpaced the Dow, because so much of the rally recently was big stocks outperforming (and playing catch up really with) the rest of the market. Finally the folks who've been saying that big caps looked cheap are looking smart.....Third time's a charm with Cablevision, right? Dolans are paying out $36.26 a share. Can you believe they originally offered $27 last fall? Good for the board to get up, stand up, get up for your rights!....Hey what are you doing this weekend, The (Kentucky) Derby or BRK's annual meeting? Hard to do both, trust me.....
Fortune: Life imitates TVupdated: Mon Apr 30 2007 14:05:00
Lately the script of Jeff Zucker's life seems plucked from the pages of a sitcom. Just consider: In the three months since ascending to the CEO position at NBC Universal, he has had to deal with a ...
In early April, shortly before Alec Baldwin committed his voicemail eruption (calling his 11-year-old daughter a "rude, thoughtless little pig"), the star of NBC's 30 Rock yukked it up with NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker on the 52nd floor of the real 30 Rock - Manhattan's GE Building.
One morning last fall, Beth Comstock checked out the New York Post and found that she'd been Page Sixed. An item in the über-gossip column quoted an anonymous "insider" describing Comstock, NBC Uni...
If you were scripting a Wall Street movie, what kind of characters would you include? Perhaps a perfectly tanned, hard-charging executive with a reputation for wearing his ambition on his sleeve, o...
In 1986, when Robert Wright went from running GE's finance division to running NBC, David Letterman joked that his new boss was going to order up a miniseries on the toaster oven. Twenty-one years ...
If you were scripting a Wall Street movie, what kind of characters would you include? Perhaps a perfectly tanned, hard-charging executive with a reputation for wearing his ambition on his sleeve, or a struggling CEO stuck in the shadow of his predecessor, or a glamour-puss anchorwoman who worked her way from cloakroom girl to worldwide celebrity, or a Saudi prince, or a billionaire media magnate plotting a new power play? Add a corporate jet and whispers of shenanigans at 35,000 feet, and you've got a certified blockbuster.
Nielsen Media Research, the firm that calculates national television ratings for shows, will start providing a reading on how many people are watching the commercials starting this November, according to a report published Tuesday.
Fortune: Broadcast bluesupdated: Mon May 15 2006 12:15:00
Jeff Zucker used to be one of the most confident emcees at the annual broadcast television "upfront" in New York, where networks unveil their forthcoming seasons to advertisers.
One of my colleagues dropped by recently and asked me if I'd heard the news about "Friends."
Fortune: Remodeling Marthaupdated: Mon Nov 14 2005 00:01:00
IF MARTHA Stewart's troubles have dimmed her self-confidence, you'd never know it from talking with her. When she was offered a starring role in The Apprentice, she tells me one afternoon, "I thoug...
NBC Universal is looking at creating a position of czar of its news division and is talking to some top media executives about the possible post, according to a published report.
Fortune: Last among equalsupdated: Mon Jun 27 2005 00:01:00
NBC, once the preening Peacock of prime time, has already fallen from first to worst in the ratings race. Now it's paying for that: Last week the network began cutting its "upfront" ad prices, whic...
It's a genius idea, the notion of incorporating the shock effect of Kirstie Alley's recent substantial weight gain into an autobio sitcom about a substantially heavier Kirstie Alley.
Every so often there emerges from the smog and sun-bleached streets of Hollywood a figure who is best defined as The Guy. The Guy knows everyone and is sought after by all. He drives hot cars, wear...
STEVE BURKE Burke, 44, is the second in command at fast-rising Comcast. But he won't always play second fiddle. His name routinely gets thrown around for possible CEO jobs in cable and beyond. (Dis...
Comedy after breakfast. Comedy after lunch. Comedy before dinner. Comedy tonight. This is the life of Jeff Zucker, the 38-year-old president of NBC Entertainment, during pilot season, a few frenzie...
Fortune: NBCupdated: Mon Mar 18 2002 00:01:00
How's this for a triple axel? The Peacock network keeps its Friends for another season; viewers are actually Watching Ellie; and about 187 million people tuned in to the network's Winter Olympics c...
Television programmers dream about going into the fall season with the most-talked-about new show. This year Fox has bragging rights with 24. The stylish hour-long drama, starring Kiefer Sutherland...
When Jeff Zucker, the hot-shot executive producer of the Today show, took over NBC's entertainment division in January, he vowed to break the programming rules. Four months later Zucker unveiled to...
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