May 6th, 2008 by
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While we’re still waiting for the early year flirtations of NBC and Apple to sprout into a renewed relationship, it looks like Microsoft is picking up the ball and running with it. The new Zune Marketplace TV lineup includes NBC favorites “The Office, “Heroes” and “30 Rock,” in addition to popular shows from Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and Sci Fi Channel. Over 800 episodes in total are available at the moment, and all of them are going for 160 Microsoft Points — about $2.00. A more complete list is after the break.
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January 20th, 2008 by
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var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/NBC_s_Zucker_hints_at_return_to_iTunes’; After a very public cat-fight resulting in the discontinuation of NBC content on iTunes, the relationship between NBC and Apple seems to be on the mend. Perhaps you recall NBC Universal’s CEO, Jeff Zucker, saying that Steve Jobs and iTunes had “destroyed the music business.” This in retaliation to Apple’s damning press release in which it chided NBC for wanting to more than double the retail price for its per episode downloads, something NBC flatly denied. This morning, the Financial Times is reporting on a kinder and gentler kinship between the media giants. According to the FT, Zucker says, “We’ve said all along that we admire Apple, that we want to be in business with Apple.” He then unexpectedly adds, “We’re great fans of Steve Jobs.” No telling what has caused the turnabout. Perhaps the writers strike gave both parties time to reflect on their mounting lost revenue. Or maybe it’s residual goodwill on the heels of Universal inking an iTunes rental deal. Whatever the case, it will be good to see NBC’s content return to iTunes whenever the strike might end.
Update: The love-in continues over at BusinessWeek where Jobs comments on the NBC Universal situation saying, “We’ll put it back together on the TV thing. Everybody lost.”
[Thanks, Bart L. and MJ420]
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October 29th, 2007 by
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NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker clearly did not get enough raisins in his cereal this morning, because dude was not holding anything back during that speech he gave at Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Communications — in addition to saying NBC had made only $15M in iTunes video sales despite being the number one producer of content, he flat-out said that Apple and iTunes had “destroyed the music business” in terms of pricing and that video was next unless “we take control.” Of course, seeing as consumers can access Universal’s entire music catalog with various subscription services for under $10 a month ($36 a year, in the case of Yahoo Music) and entire NBC shows for free on the web, but still choose to buy songs and shows straight-up on iTunes anyway, it might be fair to say that NBC Universal is still figuring out how to monetize its content effectively, but really, where’s the fun in that? Round 7, fight!
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October 29th, 2007 by
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Not that it comes as much of surprise given recent developments, but NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker is clearly still none too pleased about the company’s deal with Apple, as evidenced by his recent comments at a benefit for Syracuse University. According to Variety, Zucker lamented the lack of flexibility on pricing, and the fact that NBC U wasn’t able to get a cut of Apple’s hardware sales, saying that “Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content.” He also dropped the bomb that the iTunes deal netted NBC U “just” $15 million in revenue, despite the fact that NBC’s programming accounted for 40% of video sales on iTunes. Not coincidentally, all of this comes on the same day that NBC Universal (and its partners) launched the beta version of Hulu.com, which it hopes will provide some competition to iTunes, not to mention be better for its bottom line.
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