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
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
NBC’s iTunes Pricing Flexible, Just Like Jeff Zucker’s Memory
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.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Hulu, Now With More Truthiness
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.
Monday, May 12, 2008
HBO to Apple: Open the !#@&!#$! Canned Peaches!
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.
Friday, May 2, 2008
NBC Universal CEO: I Can Has Pro-IP Act?
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 [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Zucker: Selective Memories, Light the Corners of My Mind
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 [...]
Help Me, Obi-GOOG Kenobi, You’re My Only Hope
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. [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Hello, I’m a Mac. And I’m a Cheapskate.
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 [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
NBC U to Apple: I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)
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. [...]
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Tech 10: Google Wants Your Files, Verizon Wants Your Apps and MySpace Wants to Feed Your Friends
Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns next Monday.
To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories.
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- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
- A Spectacular Cover of “Let It Be”
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
