NBC CEO Jeff "Can't Employ O'Brien" Zucker accedes to a $40 mil Conan buyout while threatening 3 1/2 years on the beach. THR has more.If you play this in reverse, Conan is running AWAY from Burbank. And if you listen closely, you'll hear "Jeff is dead"...
Zucker has to be the biggest cock-a-roach since.... uh, there's never been a bigger one. The Peter Principle reigns at the Peacock network where Zucker has presided over the primetime ratings trash heap. And thrived. Now this. The biggest ferret up the ass in broadcast television history. Comcast's Brian Roberts - NBC's new owner in the wings - has to have buyer's remorse after signing Zucker to a three-year-contract to shepherd NBC through the Comcast transition.
Former NBC CEO Bob Wright - another Zucker casualty: “I’m very disappointed that they are losing Conan, who is very talented. To get squeezed out like that is very tough. They could have done it another way.”
Yeah, and as the NYT's Tim Arango points out, NBC and Zucker are now the punch lines of late night jokes.
Mother Zucker has another abortion.
ReplyDeleteNow, I wonder how many Fox affils will refuse to give up lucrative syndie fare and not carry Conan. Of course, the owned-and-operated will do as Rupert tells them, and that's a chunk of the country.
And what becomes of Wanda Sykes' show in all of this.
And what portion of the potential 11PM ET talk show audience have already been grabbed by George Lopez on TBS?
TBD.
the arrogant douche bag ebersole takes a cheap shot at o'brien while nbc is announcing HIS winter olympics will lose 200 million. if the SNL writers came up with a sketch detailing the current state of nbc the powers to be would laugh it off as to wacked out.
ReplyDeleteBest I can figure, sometime during early 2004 Jeff Zucker's tallywhacker got stuck inside the NBC peacock's butt and, from that moment on, he set out on a five year plan to totally screw over that network and its parent company, GE. His first act was to sabotage any chance of a hit replacement for "Friends", and he quickly followed that up by penning a deal with Conan O'Brien to replace Jay Leno.
ReplyDeleteThe loss of a couple hundred million bucks for televising the Olympics? Just a bonus. How did he manage to get himself a new multi-year contract? Immelt likes to dress himself up like a peacock.
Yeah, I saw the Ebersole quote somewhere...
ReplyDeleteAl, Jeff's sucking SOMEBODY'S dick...
Zucker must be give good head - why else is he there, or he has dirt on someone giving head to others.
ReplyDeleteHow can still be a part of NBC? Esp. in a place where ratings and advertising money rules.
IMO, NBC start to slowly descend in to suck-dom after Brandon Tartikoff's passing. Unless there's major shift (stranger things have happened), NBC is going to be the bottom feeder for a long time.