Comments on: Was Jeff Zucker Really So Bad For NBC Universal?

By: Arthur Dent

Arthur Dent — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:49:23 +0000

Conan O’Brien is the funniest human being in the history of the universe, and Jeff Zucker should have been aborted as a fetus.

By: adam_hartung

adam_hartung — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:51:09 +0000

Interesting article. Check out my blog to get my take on Jeff Zucker during his tenure with NBC:

http://www.thephoenixprinciple.com

Let’s keep this conversation going!

By: adam_hartung

adam_hartung — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:55:43 +0000

Mr. Burke, as replacement for Mr. Zucker, will have to carry on the tradition of abandoning the past if he hopes to make NBCU successful. Network programming is not the future, it’s the past. What will make for a profitable future, in a Hulu/YouTube world, is not clear. Especially if “cable” connections goes the way of land line telephone as WiFi becomes more prominent and cheaper. Managing change will be very critical, and it will be interesting to see if Mr. Burke is more successful than Mr. Zucker. Read how he should address market challenges at Forbes.com http://t.co/VfDakZk

By: Newzheimer

Newzheimer — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:29:33 +0000

Ah, Les Moonves is so busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic that is CBS Television that all he can do is throw off what he considers to be witticisms. The sad fact is that broadcast television is in its death spiral.

Make no mistake about it, I despise Jeff Zucker for what he did to NBC. He took the network from first to fourth and, in the process, singlehandedly wrung billions of dollars of value out of it. He’s a bald-headed troll who deserves most, if not all of the opprobrium directed at him. But he’s still a better broadcast exec than Les is. Even Bob Iger is better than Les. And that’s not saying much.

By: chinanski

chinanski — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:15:44 +0000

Zucker didn’t mess up the cable networks because he stayed away from them. You want to give him credit for not screwing up USA? Yea, good for him!

By: Captain 88

Captain 88 — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:03:35 +0000

A very bizarre defense of a broadcasting failure. To conclude: “Had he succeeded more often, he would have been hailed a revolutionary” is a lot like saying “If water didn’t freeze, your journey on the Titanic would have been pleasant.”

By: Jim Rob Jones

Jim Rob Jones — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:44:11 +0000

For the love of god if I have to hear his stupid quote “trading analog dollars for digital pennies” one more fucking time!!! It was moronic to begin with and proof positive that Zucker was no visionary. He drove NBC into the ground particularly with this idiotic view of the web. A competent CEO would have turned the web into profitable opportunity. But Zippy chose to view it only as another portal to broadcast his poorly chosen shows and make money from ads. Let him retire in his 40s on his undeserved millions. And let’s pray to god someone with vision, a Steve Jobs of broadcasting, takes over for this Harvard educated fool.

By: Thinkin'

Thinkin' — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:56:26 +0000

Jeff Zucker was and is a tremendous corporate animal. And yes, that’s what they teach you at Harvard!

But GE execs were at least partially to blame for pushing Zucker on departments and divisions and businesses that he was neither prepared nor broad enough to run. He was a really good news program showrunner (the Today show at a very young age), but to suggest that he could step from there to running entertainment and primetime and then to the entire company…preposterous…

And, for the record, Zucker wasn’t alone in that category; there were others plucked from mid-management jobs at NBC and given broad senior executive roles who failed miserably…with at least one riding the train to GE HQ when disaster became too obvious.

Zucker-ville may have been an ugly pace, but don’t blame him entirely.

He is ambitious, hungry and aggressive. You can’t say “shame on him” for saying “yes” when the offers/opportunities came a knockin’

By: MyOpinion

MyOpinion — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:40:57 +0000

Glad to see this communist gone. Jeff Zucker practically destroyed NBC with his radical left wing agenda. Hopefully NBC will return to broadcasting the news instead of making it up.

By: Jason Farr

Jason Farr — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:59:07 +0000

Yes