GE to decide NBC Universal's fate after 2008 Summer Olympics

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Spoken like someone who doesn't remember the Fred Silverman
era in the late '70s/early '80s, when NBC was so far down in third
that Bob Hope (I think) quipped, "Fred Silverman is the only network
president who knows what it's like to rearrange the deck chairs on
the Titanic." Grant Tinker and Brandon Tartikoff brought NBC back.
As another poster says, these things go in cycles, so don't plan a
meal of stuffed peacock just yet.

I like pretending I wasn't alive before 1980 The thing is back then they only had two competitors, but now it's a more competitve race. Yes NBC does have some successful shows on right now but I highly doubt we'll ever return to an era of when a single network was dominant in the ratings, which is what I meant by "death throes". Although I would also look for CBS to start slipping in the near future as well.