NBC Universal has made its first move into UK independent production by snapping up Carnival, the company behind Harley Street and Hotel Babylon, for ...
New York Times | Bill Carter and Richard Sandomir | Posted 08.18.2008 | Media
After a string of disappointing years in prime time, NBC executives had high hopes for a turnaround with the Beijing Olympics; but those hopes were te...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 08.15.2008 | Media
Today CNBC's "Squawk Box" hosted a very special guest: NBC (and thus CNBC) boss man Jeff Zucker, all the way from Beijing. We know he was a very speci...
AdWeek | Steve McClellan | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media
NEW YORK Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, and Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Co. (TWC), offered colorful and conflicti...
AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media
SUN VALLEY, Idaho — General Electric has no plans to sell its NBC Universal media unit even as the conglomerate moves forward with spinning off ...
New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media
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 ...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.13.2008 | Media
Colleagues are reacting with sadness to the news that Tim Russert died at the age of 58 today in NBC's Washington Bureau. Watch Tom Brokaw report the...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
Remember that NBC U (GE) -News Corp. (NWS) war? The one being waged across multiple networks and TV personalities? It's still on! Charlie Rose threw N...
Charles Warner | Posted 05.13.2008 | Media
NBCU's CEO Jeff Zucker outed himself as a philistine in an interview with TV Week when he said that "...we're managing for margin, not for ratings."
Huffington Post | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
Spotted: NBC Universal President & CEO Jeff Zucker leaving the Upper East Side apartment of his once — and future? — network star, Katie C...
Charles Warner | Posted 05.05.2008 | Media
NBC covered the Kentucky Derby like a state primary election - only worse. First, all the coverage leading up to the race was speculation about who m...
Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media
NEW YORK -- NBC Universal named former "Early Show" executive producer Michael Bass senior vp strategic initiatives. Bass will work on strategy for t...
Bloomberg | Raychel Lane | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
General Electric Co. reported its first decline in quarterly profit since 2003, missing analyst estimates with a 12 percent drop in earnings as a free...
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
GE just missed its Q1, by a lot, and lowered estimates for 2008. First reports are pinning the blame on its financial services businesses. But don't ...
Bill Barol | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media
While Jeff Zucker's commerical that's supposed to precede next week's return of My Name Is Earl is funny, is it helpful in forging a post-strike climate of mutual respect? Not a bit.
Huffington Post | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media
Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of NBC Universal, will appear in a commercial to run before the April 3 return of NBC's "My Name is Earl." In the comm...
New York Times | Bill Carter | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business
Now hear this: NBC Universal is not for sale. No how, no way. Jeffrey R. Immelt, left, the chairman of General Electric, and Jeff Zucker, the preside...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.06.2008 | Entertainment
This is great news to that small but passionate audience for the best TV series you're not watching. I'm told that Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben S...
Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 02.28.2008 | Media
NBC U CEO Jeff Zucker says he likes the Weather Channel, but not for the $5 billion Landmark Communications is said to be seeking. "Obviously, (The We...
Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 02.21.2008 | Media
Fox Broadcasting Co. scheduling chief Preston Beckman took aim Wednesday at NBC's plans for a 52-week programming schedule, saying that it wasn't anyt...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 02.04.2008 | Business
The launch of Fox Business News hasn't cost CNBC a single viewer, NBC head Jeff Zucker implies in a conference call with JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan....
New York Times | Eric Pfanner | Posted 01.23.2008 | Media
, the chief executive of NBC Universal, said Tuesday the broadcaster was moving to save as much as $50 million a year by reducing its reliance on expe...
Financial Times | Joshua Chaffin | Posted 01.20.2008 | Media
Jeff Zucker, chief executive of NBC Universal, is planning to seize on the writers' strike to eliminate what he sees as extravagances in the way Holly...
Sharon Waxman | Posted 01.11.2008 | Entertainment
The Globes have long been the entertainment industry's dirty little secret. At the heart of the con is the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., the tiny, cliquish group of foreign entertainment journalists.
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 01.05.2008 | Media
My sources say the striking Writers Guild Of America has told the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that the union won't picket the Golden Globes aw...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Guardian | Tara Conlan | Posted 08.20.2008 | Media