Comcast COO Burke takes top spot at NBC Universal

Source: AP

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Comcast Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke will succeed Jeff Zucker as the new CEO of NBC Universal later this year, when Comcast takes control of the broadcaster.

Comcast Corp. and General Electric Co., which currently owns NBC, said Sunday that Burke will work with Zucker during the transition. Zucker said last week that he would be stepping down after the change in control, telling employees in an e-mail that he understood the new owners would want to have one of their own at the helm.

Comcast and GE said they will make no other announcements about structure or personnel until timing for the deal's completion is certain.

The 52-year-old Burke first joined Philadelphia-based Comcast in 1998 as president of Comcast Cable. He also has been president of ABC Broadcasting and president and chief operating officer of Euro Disney SA.

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Another mega-corporation forms and consumers suffer. It's small change I suppose...

J

Just a few weeks ago I heard Sen. Franken (fuck you freeper) imploring us to help him stop this.
And now it's OVER?
Bend over America.
We lost and they won and FUCK Comcast and every other evil cable provider.
There goes the "Peacock" network.
Maybe in ten years or so Comcast can wheel out Tom Brokaw and do a greatest generation puke piece about what was once NBC.

Keith and Rachel...watch your backs.

here knows if that is true...

part of NBC. I do not believe that MSNBC is involved. That said, . . The offices aren't so large that people won't be "running into" each other.

/still wish they had the Conan clip on this still on the web

Edit: found part of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTM637k7i3A