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04-08-2008, 05:50 PM
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Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing - 8 April 2008
They said NBC would perish after the 1980 Summer Olympics Boycott, and they didn't, but it was still a triopoly then.
Do you really think one of the three legacy networks will actually go the way of the Edsel? I don't know what to think. Except that they need to hold a seance to conduct Brandon Tartikoff from the great beyond.
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04-08-2008, 07:54 PM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
I think it would survive, but then again, I don't watch the channel. I'm just going with my gut feeling here (and I have a very big gut...I should start working out).
Anyway, speaking for myself, I don't really watch any of the major networks. I watch ABC's broadcast of the Academy Awards every year, and I always watch the AFI "100 Years..." special that airs every year on CBS, but other than that, nothing. I don't watch NBC or FOX or the CW or MyNetwork TV. When I go to sleep, I leave either The Weather Channel or the listings channel on while I sleep. Most of my day is spent watching VH1, DVDs, or old VHS tapes, or listening to music and using the computer. If my mom's out of the house, I'll dance around the house.
The big networks really hold no interest for me anymore...With the exception of the Oscars and each AFI special, it's cable for me all the way.
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04-08-2008, 08:26 PM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
It can't help that Jeff Zucker the boy moron has taken NBC from first to fourth during his tenure at the top rungs of the network ladder. And with each increasingly large failure, he's just gets promoted higher yet. Maybe if NBC does go the way of the doodoo, the GE board will give him control of the entire company...
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04-09-2008, 12:54 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
Zucker should stick to making "Airplane!" style movies and let someone else run the network.
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04-09-2008, 12:55 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
They brought in a guy named Ben Silverman to run programming. Last time they had a Silverman in charge the same thing happened, yet they claimed in their ads they were "Proud as a Peacock." They can bring back the melody and update it for today: "NBC, Dead as a Dodo!"
Difference is, Fred Silverman had success programming CBS and ABC.
What is it that makes Jeff Zucker such a moron? Seeing how I haven't voluntarily watched NBC since the last episode of "Cheers," I am unfamiliar with what he has done. And if he is as bad is you say, maybe all hope is not lost for NBC.
This network is losing to Fox in the ratings. Fox.
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04-09-2008, 01:17 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
You're missing some good TV by closing off NBC. Chuck, Heroes, the deleted Journeyman, Friday Night Lights. And, Fox is no longer a joke network. 24? American Idol? The Simpsons and Family Guy have helped make them a powerhouse, too.
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04-09-2008, 06:53 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
NBC has some good sitcoms as well with The Office, Earl and 30 Rock.
Rick
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04-09-2008, 09:42 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
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NBC has some good sitcoms as well with The Office, Earl and 30 Rock.
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The shows listed above is the very reason NBC is sinking in the ratings. None of the shows mentioned are family friendly shows. Right now there is a big segment of viewers that are made up of families who are entertainment starved and none of the major networks especially NBC offers many shows of real value.
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04-09-2008, 10:16 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
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Zucker should stick to making "Airplane!" style movies and let someone else run the network.
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Jeff Zucker has nothing to do with Airplane! (made by David & Jerry Zucker no relation to Jeff) or any other funny movie. He is just an incompetent TV exec.
Jeff Zucker is the genius who pulled NBC's shows from iTunes, thus angering a whole bunch of viewers and killing one of NBC's best ways to promote its shows.
Hold on tightly, let go lightly.
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04-09-2008, 10:52 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
Zucker is the one who started the idea of not starting and ending shows on time, starting with the Supersize versions of shows.
Now, other networks have abused this practice big-time.
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04-09-2008, 11:58 AM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
I think he's engaging in a bit of hyperbole, but I wouldn't really miss them if they did disappear.
NBC owners should really get rid of Jeff Zucker. He's the one driving the network into the ground. It'll be sad if they let him kill it completely.
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04-09-2008, 01:20 PM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
Like those family friendly sitcoms on CBS like 2 1/2 Men, How I met Your Mother and Christine, all of which are doing well in the ratings?
The only family friendly sitcoms I know of are on Disney, Hannah Montana is a funny harmless show that would have fit in on ABC's TGIF night oh so many years ago.
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04-09-2008, 04:18 PM
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Re: Jeff Zucker: "NBC Won't Survive Another Strike"
I can barely watch network TV at all thanks to what they do to the programs. All those obnoxious squeezed credits, bugs, and what not have made it a burden to watch in addition to the overall mediocrity of the shows.
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