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Zucker says NBC may scale down programming hours
Breitbart.com ^ | Dec. 8, 2008

Posted on 12/08/2008 1:47:38 PM PST by COUNTrecount

NEW YORK (AP) - A terrible fall season at NBC is forcing the network to consider scaling back the number of hours it airs programming, Chief Executive Jeff Zucker told an investor conference Monday. While NBC will continue to fund the creation of pilots, Zucker told analysts at a media investor conference sponsored by UBS that NBC is considering cutting the number of hours or perhaps even the number of nights it provides programming.

"Can we continue to program 22 hours of prime-time? Three of our competitors don't. Can we afford to program seven nights a week? One of our competitors doesn't," Zucker said. "All of these questions have to be on the table. And we are actively looking at all of those questions."

Zucker's comments came after the company last week laid off 500 employees—about 3 percent of its work force of 15,000—as part of a plan to trim $500 million next year.

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1 posted on 12/08/2008 1:47:39 PM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Hopefully GE/NBC/MSNBC will die with the NY Times.


2 posted on 12/08/2008 1:54:29 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: COUNTrecount
“the company last week laid off 500 employees....to trim $500 million next year.

I think I see the problem. $1Mil apiece. Who do these worker think they are; the UAW?

“if we don't change the models of these local TV stations, we will be newspapers, we will be car companies,”

I'll vote for that (the going out of business implication, not the bail-out implication).

3 posted on 12/08/2008 1:54:38 PM PST by ChicagahAl (So your bumper sticker says: "Don't blame me, I didn't vote!"? Duh!)
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To: COUNTrecount

They can start with their propaganda wing: SNL, the Nightly News, and Today.


4 posted on 12/08/2008 1:55:35 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (Do not read this tagline.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Let me see... what do I watch on NBC...

I only just started watching Heroes, but I watched it on Netflix Instant Watch...

I watched ER since the series began, but that's ending this season...

Nope, can't think of another thing on NBC that I watch.

-PJ

5 posted on 12/08/2008 1:55:54 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I’ve got a great idea for a new series for NBC ..

It’s called “How are the Mighty Fallen”

It chronicles the demise of the once great giants of the media - The Tribune, The New York times, NBC, CBS ABC....

In the final episode they all sink into the abyss.

Great entertainment!


6 posted on 12/08/2008 1:57:10 PM PST by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: COUNTrecount
Zucker told analysts at a media investor conference sponsored by UBS that NBC is considering cutting the number of hours or perhaps even the number of nights it provides programming.


7 posted on 12/08/2008 1:58:28 PM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: 04-Bravo; aimhigh; andyandval; Arizona Carolyn; backhoe; Bahbah; bert; bilhosty; Caipirabob; ...
"By the end of this decade or shortly thereafter, television networks as we know them today will cease to exist. They will be just another url on the world wide web competing against millions of others."

"Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded."

Walter Abbott, (b. 1950), Media observer and commentator

8 posted on 12/08/2008 1:58:52 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: COUNTrecount

Paid Programming now? Make millions in home foreclosures. Debbie Myers miracle green bags.


9 posted on 12/08/2008 1:59:56 PM PST by Enterprise (No Presidency for illegal aliens from Kenya.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I hate their news department but like a lot of their shows. My Own Worst Enemy is already dead, but I’d like to see Chuck, Heroes and Crusoe stick around. Mainly Chuck. Enemy was largely patriotic, with one of the guys even taking on MS-13 last week. Crusoe has a positive view of Christianity and is pretty morally upright. Six years on the island, and faced with a beautiful woman, Crusoe says, “I can’t do this. I took a vow before God to be faithful to my wife.”


10 posted on 12/08/2008 1:59:56 PM PST by Rastus
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To: COUNTrecount

Maybe if they programmed good shows again, they wouldn’t be in the mess they’re in.

Where have the “Hill Street Blues”, “St Elsewheres”, and “Cosby Shows” gone? Even “Law & Order” is a shell of its former self.

Instead we get “My Name Is Earl”..........


11 posted on 12/08/2008 2:00:31 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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12 posted on 12/08/2008 2:02:11 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Political Junkie Too

What do I watch on NBC? Absolutely NOTHING! :-)


13 posted on 12/08/2008 2:02:54 PM PST by Twotone
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To: COUNTrecount

The Office is great IMO.....


14 posted on 12/08/2008 2:03:08 PM PST by Sybeck1 (Million Minuteman March (Spring 2009))
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To: abb

Wednesday and Thursday nights have become a black hole for us.

Unless we can find a good movie, for get it.

After we got back from Church and a little shopping yesterday about noonish, I was channel surfing to check on the Eagles for my DIL and finding the 9er game. Two of the major channels were running info commercials. TNT had a couple of fair pilot type shows on early in the evening, the Librarian and Leverage. Totally unbelieveable but not bad. The tv went off after Leverage was over.


15 posted on 12/08/2008 2:05:26 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Felipe de Jesus CALDERON Hinojosa & Schwarzenegger for US el presidente 2112!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I’m in the same boat—there’s not a single NBC show I watch. I think there’s only one ABC show I watch, and that’s not regularly. Frankly, I’m pretty much over tv. The kind of shows I like tend to get cancelled before they find an audience or they’re niche shows that will never get a big audience and get moved/bumped/canned on a whim. Why get invested in the first place?


16 posted on 12/08/2008 2:05:30 PM PST by Bookbuck
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17 posted on 12/08/2008 2:07:32 PM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: COUNTrecount
I'll give them a tip. Make a modern version of Combat from the 1960's and set it in Afghanistan. Make it patriotic. Make us cry when a hero dies. Make us laugh at American boy tomfoolery, and take sides against the muzzies. They will make a $Billion. http://www.nowchannel.com/tv/series/?23
18 posted on 12/08/2008 2:09:14 PM PST by Soliton (This 2 shall pass)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I’ve enjoyed The Office but I don’t have a TV....I just download torrents of it.


19 posted on 12/08/2008 2:10:02 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (By Obama's own reckoning, isn't Lyndon LaRouche more qualified? He's run since the 70's)
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To: Frantzie

Makes sense. I tune into NBC. A Law and Order episode from 2003. So I go over to tBS and the Law and Order is from 2008!


20 posted on 12/08/2008 2:11:06 PM PST by llevrok (Feral Conservative)
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