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Thursday, October 29, 2009
I Kid You!
Calling all NBC Universalists! The ongoing negotiations involving General Electric Company (or GE as it it called) and Pennsylvania-based Comcast to purchase a 51 percent majority interest in NBC Universal could have a strange effect on content and distribution. All that is NBC Universal could be left out in the cold with any new motion picture or episodic TV shoots for 2010 (think The Wolfman, The Rockford Files, Battlestar Galactica, Twenty-One, the Jaws, The Nutty Professor, Babe, Fletch, Jurassic Park and Law & Order franchises, Dan in Real Life, etc.) and, as Jeffrey R. Immelt told GE shareholders, there are 2-and-a-half weeks left to decide the future of the venerable broadcaster behind such legendary TV and radio personalities as Bob Hope, William Waterman, Graham McNamee, Fred Allen, Bill Stern, John Chancelor,
Tom Brokaw, Marv Albert, Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Fox News Channel mainstays John Gibson, Rick Folbaum and Neil Cavuto.
Comcast gobbling up NBCU?!
Screw you! Jeffrey A. Zucker (going by Jeff) wasn't happy with the Oct. 1, 2009 talks between Comcast and GE. Many GE executives in Connecticut's Fairfield County are upset with merging NBCU's various properties - a broadcast commercial television network, Universal Studios, the film and television production company, cable networks such as USA, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Syfi (previously the SciFi channel) and entertainment and recreation facilities in California, Florida and Japan. However, for General Electric's participation in NBCU as a whole, the entire media community worldwide believes NBCU could be worth as much as $35 million - and what to do with the media operations is up to GE and their media/entertainment
partner, the French telecommunications and Internet services provider Vivendi (meaning "living" in Latin),
might disposed of their 20 percent minority interest in NBCU.
Is this the end of NBC Universal as GE knows it or what?
More info about the Comcast/NBCU negotiations is at http://www.cnbc.com/.
Meanwhile, NBC is developing a reimagining of the classic 1970s cult private-investigator series The Rockford Files with former Second Citizen Steve Carell executive producing the hour-long series, minus former series star James Garner.
However, House, M.D., starring Hugh Laurie in the title role, is in its sixth season on Fox Broadcasting and is currently produced by Universal Media Studios. Other UMS-produced series airing on broadcast and cable television networks other than NBC - Coach, Alias Smith & Jones, The Six Million Dollar Man,
The Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica and Holmes & Yoyo on ABC, Ichabod & Me, Murder, She Wrote, Johnny Bago, Otherworld, The Equalizer, Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon, Northern Exposure and
Worst Week on CBS, The Springer Shuffle on VH1, Dream On on HBO and Discovery Channel's Matt Laurer-hosted on-air/online event program Greatest American - have all been a part of the Golden Age of Electronic Media at a time when many global TV broadcasters are replacing older episodic program formats with new series TV offerings across every scripted and nonscripted genre.
Like it or not, whoever acquires a majority or minority stake in NBC Universal should the media business created by the 2004 merger of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the worldwide film and television operations of Vivendi become available.
Would you rather buy a media company from an industrial-products manufacturer?
Tom Brokaw, Marv Albert, Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Fox News Channel mainstays John Gibson, Rick Folbaum and Neil Cavuto.
Comcast gobbling up NBCU?!
Screw you! Jeffrey A. Zucker (going by Jeff) wasn't happy with the Oct. 1, 2009 talks between Comcast and GE. Many GE executives in Connecticut's Fairfield County are upset with merging NBCU's various properties - a broadcast commercial television network, Universal Studios, the film and television production company, cable networks such as USA, Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, Syfi (previously the SciFi channel) and entertainment and recreation facilities in California, Florida and Japan. However, for General Electric's participation in NBCU as a whole, the entire media community worldwide believes NBCU could be worth as much as $35 million - and what to do with the media operations is up to GE and their media/entertainment
partner, the French telecommunications and Internet services provider Vivendi (meaning "living" in Latin),
might disposed of their 20 percent minority interest in NBCU.
Is this the end of NBC Universal as GE knows it or what?
More info about the Comcast/NBCU negotiations is at http://www.cnbc.com/.
Meanwhile, NBC is developing a reimagining of the classic 1970s cult private-investigator series The Rockford Files with former Second Citizen Steve Carell executive producing the hour-long series, minus former series star James Garner.
However, House, M.D., starring Hugh Laurie in the title role, is in its sixth season on Fox Broadcasting and is currently produced by Universal Media Studios. Other UMS-produced series airing on broadcast and cable television networks other than NBC - Coach, Alias Smith & Jones, The Six Million Dollar Man,
The Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica and Holmes & Yoyo on ABC, Ichabod & Me, Murder, She Wrote, Johnny Bago, Otherworld, The Equalizer, Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon, Northern Exposure and
Worst Week on CBS, The Springer Shuffle on VH1, Dream On on HBO and Discovery Channel's Matt Laurer-hosted on-air/online event program Greatest American - have all been a part of the Golden Age of Electronic Media at a time when many global TV broadcasters are replacing older episodic program formats with new series TV offerings across every scripted and nonscripted genre.
Like it or not, whoever acquires a majority or minority stake in NBC Universal should the media business created by the 2004 merger of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the worldwide film and television operations of Vivendi become available.
Would you rather buy a media company from an industrial-products manufacturer?
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