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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedPulling it all together: NBC's Zucker and Universal's Meyer tell how they'll do it.(Top of the Week)(Jeff Zucker)(Ron Meyer)
Broadcasting & Cable, May, 2004 by Higgins, John M.
The $14 billion Vivendi Universal deal opens a new world for Jeff Zucker. As the company finds ways for the studio to fuel its various networks, the deal catapults him into cable's big leagues with control of top-ranked USA Network and Sci Fi Channel. With Universal Television, NBC gets what all of its broadcast rivals have: a substantial TV-production operation and library.
Zucker and Universal Studios President Ron Meyer sat down with B&C Deputy Editor John M. Higgins to talk about how they'll weave USA and Sci Fi into NBC and how they plan to avoid mistakes made by other media giants.
NBC's track record with other TV properties is mixed. MSNBC, CNBC declining, Pax ...
ZUCKER: That's totally unfair. Quite frankly, Bravo has been a...
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