Good thing Comcast and General Electric plan to name NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker as head of their proposed joint venture, because Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin doesn’t want the job. Not that he wouldn’t be a good candidate to run a merged Comcast-NBCU. Because as Karmazin himself told Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto, he’d be an excellent choice.
We’ve never told anyone they can’t lower prices. We’re glad to have NBC back and they are participating under the same terms with all of the other content providers.”
– Apple VP Eddy Cue says that NBC Universal’s iron will ended up being quite a bit more flexible than the flexible iTunes pricing scheme it claims to have won from Apple
Nearly a year after being eighty-sixed from Apple’s iTunes store over a pricing dispute, NBC Universal is returning to the service, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced Tuesday. It’s not entirely clear what led to the warming of relations between the two companies, though NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker said it was a concession from Apple that brought NBCU back to iTunes.
Hulu claims its mission is “to help you find and enjoy the world’s premier content when, where and how you want it.” And now, three months after it first launched, it’s finally getting around to delivering on that promise. This morning the video site, which is jointly owned by NBC Universal and News Corp., said it will offer full episodes of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and the “Colbert Report” beginning today.
HBO has reportedly managed to do what NBC Universal failed so miserably at last year: convince Apple to adopt variable pricing at its iTunes digital media storefront. Sources close to the network tell Portfolio.com that Apple will soon bring its programming to iTunes along with a separate and distinct pricing structure.
If there was an Emmy Award for legislation production, NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker would surely win it. Last October he called upon Congress to pass a bill that would create a dedicated intellectual-property enforcement bureau and today it’s looking more and more like he’s going to get it.
This week members of the House [...]
I got into a pretty public fight with Steve Jobs about our TV. We were the market share leader at iTunes, we had 35% of the market share at the iTunes store. What we said to Steve and his team was that we wanted there to be some variable pricing. There’s no example in the [...]
If Yahoo is looking for a deus ex machina to resolve its seemingly insoluble difficulties, it best not look to News Corp.
The company, which just acquired Dow Jones (owner of this site) and which posted a moderate rise in fiscal second-quarter profit yesterday, has no plans to yank Yahoo from the jaws of Microsoft. [...]
Market research has uncovered yet another rift between Mac and PC users. According to the NPD Group’s Digital Music Monitor, Mac users are far more likely than PC users to pay to download music.
They’re also more likely to buy CDs. Of all Mac users surveyed by NPD, 50% paid to download music during the third [...]
Apparently, NBC Universal doesn’t know that jumping into rebound relationships after a particularly painful breakup is rarely a good idea. After Apple tossed its fall TV lineup off iTunes in August, saying the two companies couldn’t agree on pricing, the broadcast network has been spitefully seeking out distribution deals wherever it can find them: Hulu. [...]
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1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
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Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
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Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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