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USA Today Columnist Slams NBC and Comcast Corporate Management

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As if NBC doesn't have enough problems already (what with low prime-time ratings outside of Sunday nights during the football season, the rumors that Matt Lauer may get removed from "Today" and speculation that Jimmy Fallon will replace Jay Leno on "Tonight" sometime within the next seventeen months), the network now has something else to worry about.

In today's (April 1st) USA Today, business columnist Michael Wolff suggests that the upper management of NBC and it's (relatively) new parent company Comcast should be replaced, giving them as much blame as anyone for the network's current woes.

The article can be found at http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...wolff-someone-at-nbc-should-be-fired/2040775/ .
 
Unmentioned in the article as a motivation for Comcast buying NBC: They wanted to lend the cachet of the NBC name, as well as the bargaining chip of being able to put games on the broadcast network, to the then-Versus channel.

As such, I never understood why people speculated that Comcast would sell the NBC network. What was the point of buying NBCU then?
 
Morgan Wick said:
Unmentioned in the article as a motivation for Comcast buying NBC: They wanted to lend the cachet of the NBC name, as well as the bargaining chip of being able to put games on the broadcast network, to the then-Versus channel.

As such, I never understood why people speculated that Comcast would sell the NBC network. What was the point of buying NBCU then?
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More than just that, they wanted to stable of high-successful cable channels that NBC-U had acquired/developed.
 
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