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Conan the Contrarian
2010-10-27 18:28:00 Conan O'Brien's stirring up media buzz for his new late night show debuting November 8 on TBS. The former NBC "Tonight Show" host is arming himself for a potential NBC lawsuit for defying NBC's proprietary lock on Conan-created characters like the Masturbating Bear. Conan lights the fuse in Rolling Stone mag.
By: Chickaboomer
Scarborough Lair
2008-06-05 13:33:00 NBC czar Jeff Zucker zaps MSNBC's Joe Scarborough as a "space filler". Like the Academy Awards no-name seat fillers for stars' cocaine breaks. Well, what Zucker REALLY said in a puffy Jacques Steinberg NYT piece today: ?It?s probably a little unfair to call Joe a ?space filler''. The three hours of hard-core political chat (often laced with humor) that Mr. Scarborough and his co-hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, put on each day is unlike anything else on morning television. Little wonder that every major presidential candidate has made at least one stop at Mr. Scarborough?s desk since fall ? including Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husband Mr. Scarborough voted to impeach ? and that throughout the broadcast Mr. Scarborough?s Blackberry continuously vibrates with e-mail messages from the candidates? surrogates. [Sending a Chris Matthews thrill up Joe's third leg?]?Scarborough is a crazy right-winger, and Mika?s in the bag for Obama,? said Jay Dunn, an adviser to [Terry] Mc...
By: Chickaboomer
Dark Shadows
2008-05-22 14:43:00 Charlie Rose sucks up to Jeff Zucker introducing him as "a living cancer survivor." (pause) "Obviously you wouldn't be a dead cancer survivor." Zucker: "I'm happy to be anywhere." Charlie Rose "I am very fortunate and humble to be in a company..." Zucker spends a big chunk pimping Hulu - the joint venture between NBC and News Corp.Wireless mobile revolution. "Very much in it's infancy in the United States...I look at my children who were born digital.""Network television obviously is going through a tremendous transition. Network television is still very strong, very powerful, and can still aggregate and audience...It's not what is was and we cannot pretend that is." "Ben [Silverman] is looking for big explosive ideas that resonate internationally... Heroic, inspirational, blue sky shows... programs that are not dark."I can't watch this anymore...It's like 20 minutes.
By: Chickaboomer
NBC Immeltdown
2008-05-19 12:56:00 Keith Olbermann's four-year MSNBC-sponsored war against Bill O'Reilly lures the terrorists out of their cave.Howard Kurtz Wash Post: Bill O'Reilly, Fox News star, is mounting an extraordinary televised assault on the chief executive of General Electric, calling him a "pinhead" and a "despicable human being" who bears responsibility for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. On the surface, O'Reilly's charges revolve around GE's history of doing business with Iran. But the attacks grow out of an increasingly bitter feud between O'Reilly and the company's high-profile subsidiary, NBC, one that has triggered back-channel discussions involving News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker and General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt. Ailes called Zucker on his cellphone last summer, clearly agitated over a slam against him by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. According to sources familiar with the conversation, Ailes warned that if Ol...
By: Chickaboomer
Can't Run. Can't Hide.
2008-05-09 12:00:00 NYP Page Six: Could Katie Couric be returning to NBC? That was the buzz yesterday morning after NBC boss Jeff Zucker was spotted climbing out of his black SUV on a visit to Couric, who left the "Today" show to anchor "CBS Evening News," at her East Side apartment. But don't hold your breath. A friend of Couric told Page Six, "Jeff and Katie have been friends for 20 years. He asked her to get a Mother's Day gift for his wife, Caryn, and picked it up on the way to his daughter's play." Relax, all you NBC grunts in Zuckers Skinner Box, with eternally programmed "conditioned response" to cower in your offices at the sound of clicking stilletos on shiny waxed floors...
By: Chickaboomer
Jeff Zucker: BFF
2008-04-18 19:01:00 NYP Page Six: NBC Universal president Jeff Zucker has a good sense of humor, even when he feels he's been double-crossed. Zucker was furious when he found out his "friend" Harvey Weinstein had made a deal to move NBC-owned Bravo's top-rated "Project Runway" to Lifetime. In the lawsuit Zucker and NBC filed against Weinstein last week claiming "Project Runway" producers violated Bravo's right of first refusal by signing a five-season deal with Lifetime, it cited a promise Weinstein made in 2007, when he allegedly told Zucker: "You can only have in your life five true friends, and I consider you one of my five friends. And I'm telling you, I will not embarrass you." Now, an NBC insider says, "Jeff has been joking and telling people, 'I'm thinking about filing a defamation suit against Harvey for telling people we're such good friends.' " It also remains to be seen whether Weinstein's other projects will be promoted on NBC in the future. A rep for NBC declined to comment. Weins...
By: Chickaboomer
Jeff Zucker: Puke Of Earl
2008-03-27 15:50:00 NBC News honcho Jeff Zucker before the camera taking shots at the writers' settlement in a promo kicking off the new April episode of "My Name Is Earl." Huff Post vidThe caustic, cryptic Zucker zings writers by telling viewers to go to NBC.com within "17 days" to watch the episode. The writers don't get paid for the first 17 days. But wait, there's more...
By: Chickaboomer
NBC Ya!
2008-03-20 03:02:00 NBC shedding two O & Os: WTVJ Miami and WVIT Hartford. TV Newser
By: Chickaboomer
Shrimp Pimp Scrimp
2008-02-13 16:44:00 NBC blaming the writers' strike for striking the budget for the "upfronts" where networks have traditionally courted the ink-stained Tee Vee critic wretches to gush about new TV shows. NYP Why are we reading yet another story on this? Wretches looking forward to that May L.A. glitzy "Shrimp & Swinefest" extravaganza? The Queen of the Writers' Strike, Nikki Finke, on the overwhelming vote to end the three-month walkout. The late night talk show writers are the among the first to be back on board. Richard Huff NYDN
By: Chickaboomer
Quoth The Raven: "Nevermore"
2008-01-30 15:49:00 NBC head Jeff Zucker on the NATPE friendly platform announces what everyone's speculated: No more spring "upfront" shimp & swine fests pimping fall programming for the ink-stained TV critic wretches. Hollywood Reporter MediaWeekZucker keys in other cost-slashing moves using the writers' strike as a convenient excuse. B&CNBC's holding its own, second to Fox in ratings from last year at this time in the golden 18-49 demo. Why? NBC added more reality shows. The writers' strike has pummeled the other broadcast networks. Variety Although MSNBC saw a jump, Fox News is still king. B&C Liberal Media Matters divines Fox is in for a fall. CBS radio and TV WGA ratify a new contract. USA Today
By: Chickaboomer
Jeff Zucker: Empty Vessel
2008-01-02 16:38:00 Former NBC "Dateline" reporter John Hockenberry has written a damning account of his years there in MIT's Technology Review. "The culmination of Dateline's Internet journalism strategy was the highly rated pile of programming debris called To Catch a Predator. The TCAP formula is to post offers of sex with minors on the Internet and see whether anybody responds. Dateline's notion of New Media was the technological equivalent of etching "For a good time call Sally" on a men's room stall and waiting with cameras to see if anybody copied down the number."Amen. The Holy Grail of NBC: Audience, ratings, shareholders. The real predators are NBC brass.After 9/11 Hockenberry proposed a "Dateline" investigation of al Qaeda, not yet a household name. NBC honcho Jeff Zucker blew him off, instead suggesting a reality show about firefighters. "At the moment Zucker blew in and interrupted, I had been in Corvo's [David Corvo, new Dateline EP] office to propose a series of stories about al-Qae...
By: Chickaboomer
Schmucker
2007-12-30 17:20:00 Here's the REAL reason the WGA made an exception and let Letterman's CBS show go on WITH writers. To bring NBC honcho Jeff Zucker to his knees. Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily has the dope.
By: Chickaboomer
The Prim Leaker
2007-10-19 03:16:00 NBC head Jeff Zucker's predictable pap on Fox's new biz network: "Looking at the channel for about five seconds, I happened to catch one of their anchors interviewing the Naked Cowboy in Times Square. When I saw that, I decided it was time to turn back to CNBC." USA Today Translation: They're freaked.Zucker never gave former NBC chief Bob Wright any warning or Valium before beheading him and snatching his gilded crown.
By: Chickaboomer
Peter Chernin (COO News Corp.) and Jeff Zucker (CEO NBC Universal) Can't Si
2007-05-10 08:50:00 I saw this bit of news at TechCrunch:The rumors of a joint venture to counter the perceived Google-YouTube threat, dubbed ?Clown Co.? by Google executives, are now confirmed, although the name of the new company is not yet available. In a press release, Peter Chernin (COO News Corp.) and Jeff Zucker (CEO NBC Universal) are announcing ?launch the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled with the most sought-after content from television and film.? Content from at least a dozen TV networks and two major film studios is promised. Initial distribution partners include AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo.Chernin says they will have access to ?the entire U.S. audience? at launch. The service is promised for this summer, with ?thousands of hours? of full length televisions shows and movies, as well as shorter clips. Users will have unlimited and free access to content on the site.Good content lineup: At launch, full episodes and clips from current hit shows, including Heroes, ...
?The Office? Supersized?
2007-05-01 04:48:00 It's possible that NBC's The Office might be stretched to an hour!
By: Geeks of Doom
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