NBC Universal's "Green Is Universal"

[jal41]

All of the logos on all of the NBC Universal networks are green...and Matt, Al, and Ann have been sent to the far reaches of the Earth as part of NBC Universal's weeklong environmental initative. Al Gore will make a guest appearance on "30 Rock" later this week as well. Additionally, NBC Universal employees are being asked to use as little paper as possible.

I am glad to see that NBCU and it's majority parent GE do realize that global warming is real, and that people can help to stop it. I hope other media companies (espcially one that is run by a person by the name of Murdoch) will launch similar initatives.

 

[KeithE4]

OK, so will NBC do any of the following since they are now True Believers of The Gospel According to Saint Al? NBC should...

...sign off their O&Os overnight instead of running Leno & Conan reruns, or paid programming? Think of how much electricity will be saved if those high-powered transmitters are off the air!

...no longer broadcast NFL football on Sunday nights since those night games require a lot of light, and hence, a lot of electricity. All that power generation contributes to global warming, you know. Not to mention the heat generated by the lights themselves raising the outside temperature of the city where the game is played.

...no longer allow their executives, actors, writers, etc. to fly in private jets. Very inefficient use of precious jet fuel. Let 'em fly coach or take the bus.

...no longer cover events in Washington DC since the hot air generated by politicians of both parties is probably the biggest contributor to global warming of all. ;D

I have two words for this "Green is Universal" campaign: Sweeps stunt.

BTW, if Dan Quayle was spewing the same things that Al Gore is, the mainstream media would be calling him a complete idiot and a nutjob (even more than they did when Quayle was VP).

 

[Vandelay]

Given how environmentally irresponsible the parent company is there is a great deal of irony here.
Having some segments on the local news (at least on WNBC), network newscasts, and very special episodes of network shows really doesn't do much.

 

[KentBrockman]

Don't forget the newly remodeled MSNBC/NBC News headquarters at 30 Rock. The walls are plastered from top to bottom with flatscreen monitors.... and all of them pretty much have the same thing playing on their screens. :

A total waste of electricity and energy.

 

[easttxtv]

I've noticed the green CNBC peacock logo this week...even if it wasn't linked to a 'green' initiative, it does kinda fit since they are a business/money network.

Amazing--the irony that the same parent company doing this now, was the same that was found to have dumped PCBs into the Hudson River years ago.

 

[sack]

You've all dumped on NBC for being hypocritical,,, so what are you doing to be more "green"? Do you unplug your TV every night or when you are away? How about your computer? Do you use a dryer instead of hanging your clothes to dry? Have you installed low wattage light bulbs? Do you drive a "terrorist" S.U.V. or a car that gets decent gas milage,, or even a hybrid?

I don't care if you think Al Gore is a savior or a fool, respecting the planet we live on is just common sense. SO props to NBC for at least making the message available. Dont bitch at them until you have your house in order.

 

[Mainedude2007]

You've all dumped on NBC for being hypocritical,,, so what are you doing to be more "green"?

because we're not going "Go Green Go Green Go Green Go Green Go Green Go Green"

 

[sathman01]

Do you unplug your TV every night or when you are away? How about your computer? Do you use a dryer instead of hanging your clothes to dry? Have you installed low wattage light bulbs? Do you drive a "terrorist" S.U.V. or a car that gets decent gas milage,, or even a hybrid?

I don't care if you think Al Gore is a savior or a fool, respecting the planet we live on is just common sense. SO props to NBC for at least making the message available. Dont bitch at them until you have your house in order.

Unfortunately, the way many homes are designed along with the entertainment centers, many are unable to unplug their TVs and computers.
As for my attempt to "go green", I use the low watt high output bulbs. I also drive a high MPG car (34). One other suggestion I have is to reuse the your water bottles by rinsing them out with hot soapy water and refilling them with either filtered water or regular tap water.

I do disagree with the "props" to NBC. They are spending thousands if not millions to broadcast from remote locations while using lots of energy to send and receive signals to those locations. Also, if they are really truely "going green" they would not be in the remote locations, not be indoors and use a single battery powered camera for all live shots. Sadly, they are not using any of my suggestions to "go green". This is just a ratings stunt and they will go back to their energy wasting ways next week.

Nice try NBC but you are more transparent then a piece of recycled plastic bottle.

 

[sack]

Sathman,

Good points and I'm glad you are doing something to be more "green".

I agree, NBC is doing this for ratings, but what media outlet ever does anything for the greater good without making a profit in some way. But at least they are doing something. Hopefully it will get more people to be responsible and cut back on the way we waste energy and natural resources. Global Warming or not, Americans waste so much, its about time for this reality check.

 

[BRNout]

The Sunday Night Football halftime show 'by candlelight' was an absolute joke. If it is any indication of what NBC/Universal is thinking, then it involves sheer arrogance, sensationalism and pandering to the lowest intellectual common denominator.

Did they really think that the audience is stupid enough to not realize that other studio lights are used to show the anchors' faces? Or that viewers can't figure out that the background monitors, chyron, message boards and (most importantly) electrical generator units are still running full-blast? How many people out there were dumb enough to actually believe that these guys were working by candlelight and that the power was turned off?

And inserting this sham into a football game was absurd. It literally insulted my intelligence.

Just as seeing non-scientists preaching to us idiots from Greenland (supposedly in the "Arctic" yet well below the Arctic Circle on the shores of the Baffin Sea, by the way), Antarctica and Ecuador does. As if flying to these sensitive environments, driving around these places and setting up pollution-belching diesel generators were "good" for the planet. How stupid do they think we are?

All in all, this is clearly a ridiculous effort that only acts to highlight the political proclivities - and lack of scientific prowess - of most NBC News staffers. :

 

[robbbc]

NBC's parent company is deeply in cahoots with French Nuclear power generator Areva and is deeply involved in clean coal, wind and solar. Nuclear power is the only realistic way to replace Coal Fired plants- the major source of CO2 emmisions. There is negligible impact from NBC using genrators or anything of the sort. Broadcasting and film represent a near zero environmental impact industry. The educational benefits far outweigh the environmental costs. I think people are approaching this with a very jaded eye. What is more likely is that replacing old coal fired plants with new nuclear and clean coal plants would boost GE's bottom line big time. Allowing the old belchers to run indefinitely doesn't help GE or the planet. Throw in some more subsidies for wind and solar and it's Christmas time at GE. There's gold in them there hills.

 

[azumanga]

NBC's parent company is deeply in cahoots with French Nuclear power generator Areva and is deeply involved in clean coal, wind and solar. Nuclear power is the only realistic way to replace Coal Fired plants...

In the late-1980s NBC News had a prime time special called "Nuclear Power -- In France, It Works", where it was about France's drive to go all-nuclear. The special also featured images of French coal-fired plants facing the wrecking ball. The truth, however, was that France wasn't willing to give up other means of energy just yet, and many of its plans feature generators and equipment made by GE -- the parent company of NBC.

 

[Vandelay]

The wind power story from Nightly News yesterday featured a GE subsidiary, which makes things appear that it was basically an ad for GE.

 

[sack]

Allowing the old belchers to run indefinitely doesn't help GE or the planet. Throw in some more subsidies for wind and solar and it's Christmas time at GE. There's gold in them there hills.

I'm no fan of corporate America, but good for GE for finding a way to do something right and make a buck at it. If the oil companies were even half smart, they would have made themselves "energy" companies with all their massive profits, built wind and solar farms, and position themselves to make even more profit in the future.

So the TV stuff is hokey and rather stuipd (candlelight halftime,, get real), but the message is there. This would be taken a lot more seriously if NBC didn't focus everything on the video impact and focused more on the message in an intelligent way.

 

[azumanga]

So the TV stuff is hokey and rather stuipd (candlelight halftime,, get real), but the message is there.

One thing I would like to see is a 70s "Throwback" edition of "Deal or No Deal", featuring art cards and trillions, instead of video monitors and special effects -- that's one way to "go green".

 

[Bill_W]

Just think how much electricity NBC saved last night by just showing a rerun of Saturday Night Live because of the writers strike. I wonder if they'll have to cancel the football pre-game show tonight? Who writes their stuff?

 

[upstate29651]

Ah..the things the #4 network will do to get ratings, including an appeal to the lunatic left fringe & the "gore-ons". :

G

 

[MHVRadiofan]

What I thought made the whole go green statement NBC was supposedly making by turning the studio lights down look ridiculous, was the overhead blimp shots showing Phillies Citizens Bank Park, where they hadn't played baseball in over a month, fully light up ,along with a stadium where the Eagles used to play . I must assume that these stadiums are not lit up all the time but the lights were turned on for TV.

 

[Kenny Atkinson]

All of the logos on all of the NBC Universal networks are green...and Matt, Al, and Ann have been sent to the far reaches of the Earth as part of NBC Universal's weeklong environmental initative. Al Gore will make a guest appearance on "30 Rock" later this week as well. Additionally, NBC Universal employees are being asked to use as little paper as possible.

I am glad to see that NBCU and it's majority parent GE do realize that global warming is real, and that people can help to stop it. I hope other media companies (espcially one that is run by a person by the name of Murdoch) will launch similar initatives.

A lot less paper they will use with the writers strike. ;D

 

[Julius Leonard Marx]

It was disgusting last night. Every show was tree hugger propaganda. Write the FCC and get NBC's license revoked. Global warming is a myth and GE is selling it.