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NBCU Exploring Buyback of MSNBC.com
Ad Week ^ | 5/24/12 | Mike Shields

Posted on 05/24/2012 5:12:35 PM PDT by jimbo123

Chris Matthews must be getting that tingling feeling down his leg again. He and his colleagues may soon have a giant news site to call their own.

That’s because NBCUniversal is in serious negotiations with Microsoft to buy back MSNBC.com. Several sources with first-hand knowledge of the situation say that negotiations between the two companies have progressed to the stage where NBCU parent company Comcast is conducting its due diligence. They said that the partnership could be unwound by this summer.

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1 posted on 05/24/2012 5:12:43 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123
What with MSLSD’s hundreds of viewers on a typical weekday Microsoft's gonna want serious $$$ for their share of the operation.
2 posted on 05/24/2012 5:35:31 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")
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On that basis, Microsoft should be happy to walk away with $1000.00!


3 posted on 05/24/2012 5:52:56 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: jimbo123
And the new name for the network will be

NBCDNC

4 posted on 05/24/2012 6:25:45 PM PDT by ken5050 (FRACK Obama!!!)
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To: jimbo123

Does Microsoft dictate any of the current editorial policy? I suppose in the larger sense they underwrite the losses — maybe it’s more than that though.

My sense of it is is that Gates is a liberal...maybe he’s tired of losing money on Chrissy.


5 posted on 05/24/2012 6:25:45 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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