Don’t bet on it. While media chatter has it that the conservatives at Comcast are going to overhaul MSNBC’s lineup, the problems with Olbermann were more managerial than political. The channel’s demographics are actually quite …
Earlier this week, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., warned that if the Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal went through, the company may pull NBC’s programming from Netflix. Federal regulators approved the deal Tuesday.
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General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt will become the head of a new presidential panel called the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. But is Immelt the right person for the job?
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Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal got the green light from the FCC and the Justice Department on Tuesday. The deal creates an entertainment colossus in television, movies, the Internet and theme parks. Will it also make Comca…
The 91-year old company was once the leading diversified industrial company, the product of hundreds of leveraged buyouts in the 1960s and ’70s. But its breakup is yet more proof that the conglomerate model makes little sense t…