NBC Universal's Zucker dismisses sale rumors
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NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff  Zucker on Monday dismissed repeated rumors that the media  company would be sold by parent General Electric .
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NBC Universal's most recent  acquisition isn't wasting time getting into the swing of things  with the company's Olympics coverage.
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NBC Universal named Jeff Zucker chief executive on Tuesday, a widely expected move that caps the swift rise of the 41-year-old executive charged with improving results for its TV network and presiding over a digital media make-over.
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A spokesperson for NTL has declined to comment on reports that it is to sell its Irish division.
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NBC Universal has decided not to renew  its contract to sell television shows on iTunes, becoming the  second major media company to challenge Apple Inc's   dominance in digital entertainment.
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NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker is trying to shoot down rumors that "Today" show co-host Katie Couric is a candidate for the soon-to-be-vacant job as anchor of the "CBS Evening News."
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Jeff Zucker presided over NBC's plunge from first to fourth in the prime-time ratings. So why is he poised to become chief of the NBC Universal media conglomerate?
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News Corp.  will not pull its television shows from Apple Inc's  iTunes as rival media group NBC Universal has done over a pricing dispute, President Peter Chernin said on Tuesday
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The dispute between Apple and NBC Universal over the pricing of video on iTunes grew more heated as Apple announced it would not add any new NBC shows to the online storeâs inventory.
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(InfoWorld) - Contract negotiations between Apple and NBC Universal regarding video content in iTunes are getting nastier and staying public. In a statement, NBC disputes Apple's characterization of the companies' contract renegotiation and says that its TV programs will be available on iTunes through early December. Late last week,Â Apple said that NBC wanted to increase the price for its video contentÂ so much that iTunes would have to sell individual TV shows for $4.99, instead of $1.99, like the rest of the available programs. Because Apple wasn't willing to agree to that price hike, NBC declined to renew its contract, Apple said. So that it wouldn't have to stop selling programs in December -- the middle of the TV season -- when their contract ends, Apple said it wouldn't offer any NBC shows for the upcoming season. But Apple may have a bigger battle on its hands if it does pull those shows from the iTunes video store. In its statement, NBC said that all returning series including new episodes would be available on iTunes through the end of the contract. NBC also said that rather than asking to double the wholesale price of its programs as Apple contends, it wanted to offer end-users more flexible pricing, including bundling packages of shows for a set price. Apple has mostly stuck to a policy of flat pricing despite pressure from content owners to allow for variable pricing. The exception is in the music store where a selection of songs that come without copy protection cost more. Both companies took jabs at each other in their statements. Apple called NBC's suggested pricing change a "dramatic price increase." NBC responded thus: "It is clear that Apple's retail pricing strategy for its iTunes service is designed to drive sales of Apple devices, at the expense of those who create the content that make these devices worth buying." NBC also sells programs on Amazon.com and very soon plans to start offering its shows and others for free on Hulu.com, a joint venture company with News Corp. So far, sales in the iTunes video store are relatively low. During 2007, the store should generate about $300 million, according to estimates from Forrester Research.
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Apple announced Friday that it would not add any new episodes of NBC television shows to the online storeâs inventory, as the companiesâ dispute over pricing continued.
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A spokesman for the Glazer family denies reports that they are considering selling Manchester United.
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NBC Universal is set to  announce as early as Tuesday that TV group chief Jeff Zucker  will succeed Bob Wright as chief executive officer of the media  giant.
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DaimlerChrysler AG says it has dropped its title sponsorship of Donald Trump's TV show "The Apprentice" because of a price increase from NBC. The second season starts Sept. 9.
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General Electricâs NBC unit and Microsoft explored making a joint bid for Dow Jones but decided against it a week ago, a person close to NBC and Microsoft said.
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NBC News on Thursday denied  a report that it was preparing a bid of $1 million for a  &quot;Today&quot; interview with heiress Paris Hilton after she&#39;s  released from jail.
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French media and telecoms group Vivendi  said it would not exercise its right to start disposing of a 20  percent holding in U.S. entertainment and news company NBC  Universal in January.