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Zucker on NBC: First and foremost, we're a cable network company

Putting aside the question of whether he will ever want to take on Jon Stewart on Comedy Central on behalf of NBC, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker also had these comments to make on the state of its broadcasting, cable and online businesses at the 2009 Business Week Media Summit...

Tags: NBC, Network, Cable Network, Cable, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-18

Top TV programs by audience in 2008

Rank Telecasts Network Date Aired % of Homes in U.S. Rating 1 FOX SUPER BOWL XLII FOX 02/03/2008 43.1 2 FOX SUPER BOWL POST GAME FOX 02/03/2008 30.1 3 FOX NFC CHAMPIONSHIP FOX 01/20/2008 29.0 4 SUMMER OLYMPICS TUE PRIME 1 NBC...

Tags: NBC, Summer Olympics, Games, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB

Blog posts 2009-01-11

George Clooney delivered our biggest controversy in 2008

What if you knew you were carrying a future commitment-phobe? Would you terminate the pregnancy? Tickled with the mashup, I hit the publish button. I regret that now. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: NBC, Gene, Mashup, Collaboration, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-29

Top TV shows with product placement activity

Rank Program Network Total # of Occurrences 1 BIGGEST LOSER NBC 6248 2 AMERICAN IDOL FOX 4636 3 EXTREME MAKEOVER HOME EDITION ABC 3371 4 AMERICAS TOUGHEST JOBS NBC 2807 5 ONE TREE HILL CW 2575 6 DEAL...

Tags: NBC, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-27

Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?

Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?I'm happy for television and on-demand.I do have my antenna with my HDTV, so I can watch local shows broadcasted from ABC, FOX, and CBS (don't care for NBC due to broadcasting in real channel 2 in zip code 32304). I only watch local digital...

Tags: TVs, cloud computing, TV & Home Theater, on-demand, TV, traditional broadcasting, broadcasting, NBC, British Broadcasting Corp., ABC Inc., BBC website

Discussion threads 2008-11-26

Microsoft loses MLB but keeps swinging

ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz talks about the recent announcement by Major League Baseball to drop Microsoft's Silverlight service for Adobe's Flash player. Diaz says it's a setback for Microsoft but he doesn't believe the loss of business will have long lasting effects since the company has also signed deals...

Tags: MLB, Microsoft Corp., Diaz Memo, Silverlight, Microsoft, Adobe, Sam Diaz, NBC, Netflix

Videos 2008-11-21

Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC

Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBCMagnificent RevolutionI have to tell you I'm included in the world's NUMBER ONE Fans of this video/technology revolution. I've grown with it starting with words and individual pictures that took too long to load in 1995. I...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, NBC

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC

The point is to actually make fair use  -- fair and creative use -- use of someone's professionally produced content, if you're going to post a video online. The executive vice president and general counsel of NBC Universal, Rick Cotton, this afternoon said that 99 percent of...

Tags: NBC, YouTube Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-12

NBC New York Traffic Cam 1.0 (Mobile)

The NBC New York Traffic Cam is a mobile phone application that allows you to access live traffic cameras directly on your cell phone. Cameras are located at 400+ key locations throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: NBC, Mobile, Cell Phone, Camera, NBC New York Traffic Cam, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-03

NBC Los Angeles Traffic Cam 1.0 (Mobile)

The "NBC Los Angeles Traffic Cam" connects your cell phone to Caltrans cameras. That's right, no matter where you're going, you'll have real-time traffic video right in the palm of your hand, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The "NBC Los Angeles Traffic Cam" from NBC works on...

Tags: NBC, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-03

Watch tonight's debate on your mobile; just not on the iPhone

If you are on the go tonight and don't want to miss the Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin you can watch it on your mobile phone. But only if it's on Verizon. If you're a Verizon Wireless customer there are two ways you...

Tags: Apple iPhone, NBC, Mobile, MSNBC, Debate, Verizon Wireless, CBS Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-02

NBC New York Traffic Cam (Windows Mobile) 1.0 (Mobile)

The NBC New York Traffic Cam is a mobile phone application that allows you to access live traffic cameras directly on your cell phone. Cameras are located at 400+ key locations throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Tags: NBC, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Cell Phone, Microsoft Windows, Camera, NBC New York Traffic Cam, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-01

NBC Los Angeles Traffic Cam (Windows Mobile) 1.0 (Mobile)

The NBC Los Angeles Traffic Cam connects your cell phone to Caltrans cameras. That's right, no matter where you're going, you'll have real-time traffic video right in the palm of your hand, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The "NBC Los Angeles Traffic Cam" from NBC works on...

Tags: NBC, Phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Cell Phone, Microsoft Windows, NBC Los Angeles Traffic Cam, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-01

NBC To Internet: TV Is Still King

NBC To Internet: TV Is Still KingI watch the traffic channelPBS is bugs,alligators and squalor.yeah..that's probably because they didn't make full video available. And 5 years is not what they should be thinking about.RE: NBC To Internet: TV Is Still KingToo bad the Olympics website SUCKED. I visited it a...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Still King, NBC, TV, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

NBC To Internet: TV Is Still King

If NBC had to choose a single platform on which to base its business for the next five years, it wouldn't be the Internet or mobile phones. "Sorry, guys, it would be television,'' the president of NBC Universal research said Monday. That is the conclusion of NBC's...

Tags: Olympic Games, NBC, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Free NBC television shows in HD

NBC is offering one free High Definition episode of each  a dozen different television shows. They're great to show off of the HD quality of the shows and a good way to try before you buy. You need to have iTunes 8 installed first though. (The following...

Tags: NBC, Apple iTunes, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL gamesSilverLight gets shown upBallmer must be throwing chairs somewhere in Redmond.RE: Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL gamesThat is pretty coOLNFL coming to a browser near you thanks to Flashping back from http://bits.samiq.net[... As Ryan Stewart notes, the...

Tags: NFL, NFL Game, live streaming, NBC, Adobe Systems Inc., game

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Adobe and NBC to provide live streaming of NFL games

Adobe just announced that the NFL is going to use Flash to deliver live, online streaming video for NBC Sunday and Thursday night football games. You can go watch the games on NBCSports.com right now. It looks like they used Flex to build the player and I assume they're using...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., NBC, NFL, Video, Live Streaming, Video Quality, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

How the world watched the Olympics online

How the world watched the Olympics onlineI got sick of itI live in Germany, and the experience sucked big time. For those of you who don't know, in Germany you pay a TV and radio tax of about 26 dollar per month to subsidize public channels. The rule is: if...

Tags: Taxes, Web site development, Free trade, Web technology, Corporate communications, Advertising & Promotion, Olympic Games, NBC, Microsoft Silverlight, CBC

Discussion threads 2008-08-26

Google brings election mobile as reporters become irrelevant

Worried you’ll miss it the second John McCain announces his veep choice? After all, the GOP isn’t offering a text-message alert the way Obama did. (Not that that worked so well.) Well, maybe young mothers won't be checking it at 2:38 a.m., but...

Tags: NBC, Google Inc., Mobile, Reporter, Shafer, Farhi, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, RSS, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-08-25