Jeff Zucker: The Hottest Man In Sun Valley

New York Post:

SUN VALLEY, Idaho - In what's certain to be an unfamiliar role for him, NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker is expected to be the popular guy at the Allen & Co. media conference, which officially kicks off today.

Sources said Zucker will be as sought after as Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is on the dealmaking front, mainly because many of the entertainment and banking titans attending the confab plan on bending his ear about a merger or other combination with NBC or about off-loading some assets to the network.

"Zucker's made it pretty clear that he's looking to do deals and remake NBC's overall approach," said one source, who will be at the conference and plans on talking with Zucker.

Sources have said that General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt is being coy when he says that NBC isn't for sale. While Immelt might be opposed to an outright sale of NBC because of the large tax hit GE would take, sources said they think he's interested in exploring a merger or spin-off - with Time Warner and Liberty Media mentioned most often as the likely suitors.

However, Zucker himself threw cold water on that notion earlier this week when on CNBC he said he doesn't see either a sale or spin-off in NBC's future.

Nevertheless, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and Liberty Media's John Malone are expected to be in Sun Valley this week, and the betting is they'll be talking with Zucker.

Read the whole story: New York Post

Comments

[InofTouch]

I laugh tha this failure is still consider to be hot...so being in fourth place is consider worthy.

[themodernleader]

Before this year is out there will be many monopolistic deals which allow unfettered influence of foreign and other international interests over the American self-interests.. Such deals will permit propaganda to replace unbiased reporting; amoral and licentious entertainment to replace citizen building enlightment; special interest truths and knowledge to be accepted as universial absolutes; power of significant others to replace the authority of the Constitution and Bill of Rights; the adulation of the few over the interests of the many.
The next President will be confronted with elected representatves who have bought in on this brave new world of opportunity for the unhinged and unparalleled danger for the rest of us.

[UnbiasView]

Why does HuffPost promote everything NBC?

[Queenofthedamned]

yes, well, they lie. It's ALL for sale at the right price. Zucker says doesn't "see a sale or spin-off in NBC's future" --that means there's no buyer right now nor is there likely to be in the current financial climate/down ad market. That doesn't mean it won't happen--I predict within five yrs and quite likely within a year after the Olympics which will generate a lot of cash. If GE's profits are again below expectations this quarter, as they could well be, look for cries for Immelt's head as the stock has only tanked under him and is back to 9/11 territory--that means no gains for 7 yrs under Immelt. And new boys ALWAYS want their own boys and tend to diss the beloved projects of their predecessors, specially when the predecessors are looked on as failures.

[RnR]

They'll all be happy - FISA will pass today. Nothing like knowing you got away with it to buoy up your plans for the future eh?