Tom Brokaw talks about media responsibility, age discrimination in broadcasting and the NBC/Comcast deal.
AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Almost everywhere you look at Universal Studios Hollywood, there are signs flaunting the 5-year-old marriage of NBC and...
AP | DEBORAH YAO and RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — Comcast Corp. will likely have to accept substantial conditions if the cable TV provider wants to win regulatory approval for contr...
AP | DEBORAH YAO and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp. is expected to pay $13.75 billion in cash and assets to gain control of NBC Universal from General Electric Co., Th...
Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
The deal between General Electric and Comcast over a majority stake in NBC Universal is complete, and there is nothing left to do but process paper, a...
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — General Electric Co. has reached an agreement to buy the 20 percent stake in NBC Universal held by French media conglomerate Vive...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast televi...
Josh Silver | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
If President Obama really wants to change the system that green-lighted the bailout of "too big to fail" banks, he will have to overhaul federal antitrust laws so that they actually protect the greater good.
Reuters | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) and General Electric Co (GE.N) have agreed to make NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker the head of their proposed joint venture, but ...
Reuters | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric Co. and Comcast Corp have agreed on a valuation of around $30 billion for a joint venture between NBC Universal ...
New York Times | MICHAEL J. De La MERCED | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
General Electric and the cable giant Comcast have moved closer to a deal giving control of NBC Universal to Comcast, and a formal announcement could b...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York
When the DVD starts, so does the laughter. Anastasios Makedon must have watched his first film a million times. But every time he sees it again, it cracks him up.
New York Times | TIM ARANGO | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media
Peter A. Chernin, the former president of the News Corporation and one of the most prominent media executives not tethered to a major conglomerate, is...
Posted 10.06.2009 | Impact
American Express has partnered with NBC Universal for Shine a Light, a campaign to celebrate small businesses. The entrepreneurial spirit and resilien...
Reuters | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker could be about to get a new boss -- and asked to explain a three-year run when his company expanded its cable business a...
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media
If the Knight Commission thinks there's a problem with news and information getting through to the public now, just wait until the Internet and news sources become even more consolidated.
Sam Gustin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
Federal regulators are virtually certain to scrutinize any substantial pairing of cable leader Comcast (CMSCA) and content behemoth NBC Universal, the...
Sam Gustin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Faced with the global menace of digital piracy, some of the largest entertainment companies in the world have banded together to beg the Obama adminis...
Sam Gustin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
Comcast is in talks to buy NBC Universal, the entertainment giant, from General Electric (GE) in a blockbuster deal that -- if true -- would reverberate throughout the media world.
Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The cost of health insurance is not only keeping millions from accessing proper medical care, but it is also hobbling our large companies and strangling at birth many of the small businesses we need for job growth.
New York Times | TIM ARANGO | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media
Executives at General Electric say they believe that Vivendi, the French conglomerate, will exercise its right later this year to sell its stake in NB...
The Hollywood Ham | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy
The new slogan accompanies a shift in the programming. In addition to a merger with the CW, NBC has signed a deal with popular black man, Tyler Perry.
Variety | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
Amid the revolving door of top TV execs at NBC Universal, there's been one constant: the steady rise of Jeff Gaspin. Gaspin added the final pieces ...
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media
GE's NBC Universal (GE), for instance, just posted second quarter results that were just as bad as its first quarter. Jeff Zucker's TV and movie unit ...
Liz Glover | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media