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NHL All-Star Game Broadcast Promoted Throughout New NBCUniversal Platforms

As Comcast takes over NBC Universal just before midnight Friday, hockey will be impacted in a potentially positive way. According to an industry source, the NHL All-Star Game -- broadcast on VERSUS on Sunday -- has been selected as the first "cross-channel priority" for the new NBCUniversal. A "cross-channel priority" is...

Will Ferrell Heading Into 'The Office,' but Not Everyone Is Laughing

NBC thinks Will Ferrell is "kind of a big deal." So much so that as "The Office" bids farewell to Steve Carell, the network has locked down Ferrell to send off the Dunder Mifflin branch manager and ease the transition into the program's post-Michael Scott era. The former "Saturday Night Live" performer will join his...

Opinion: When Comcast Rules the World

When the Federal Communications Commission approved the Comcast/NBC merger earlier this week, it set off all the usual complaints from all the usual suspects. You should be afraid! You should be mad!! Too much content control under one roof!!! Poppycock. So what if one company owns ... 10 TV and movie production studios...

NBC Chief Jeff Zucker Out Ahead of Comcast Merger

Jeff Zucker, the one-time wunderkind producer who rose to become chief of NBC Universal, is leaving the 'Peacock Network' ahead of the company's impending merger with cable giant Comcast (CMCSA).

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JANUARY 06: Singer Jessica Simpson arrives to the NBC Universal 2012 Winter TCA Tour All-Star Party on January 6, 2012 in Pasadena, California.

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03/16/11 Blackstone offers to sell its stake in 2 Universal... Source: Canadian Business Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP is offering to sell its 50 per cent interest in two Universal Studios theme parks back to NBC Universal Inc. Universal City, which does business as Universal Orlando, reported in a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that NBC Universal has until June 12 to accept the offer.
01/26/11 Vivendi sells stake in NBC Universal to GE Source: Expatica French group Vivendi said on Wednesday that it had sold its remaining 12.34 percent stake in US media firm NBC Universal to General Electric for $3.8 billion (2.8 billion euros).
01/20/11 Memo: Angela Bromstad to leave NBC Universal (AP) Source: The Times-Independent - Moab UT NBC prime-time entertainment president Angela Bromstad told her staff that she intends to leave NBC Universal, adding to executive turnover at the media giant being acquired by Comcast Corp. Her decision comes two days after the government cleared the way for Comcast, the country's largest cable company, to take over NBC Universal, parent company of NBC.

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NBCUniversal Media, LLC (formerly known as NBC Universal, Inc.) is an American media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base.

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