This didn’t take long but it was longer than I expected ... Deborah Fine quietly has shifted roles inside the Universal Television Group, starting a new job this week as…

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-- TNS still resisting WPP takeover: Even though German audience measurement firm GfK has pulled the plug on its bid to merge with British research company Taylor Nelson Sofres, that…

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I have post-Olympics blues, but that doesn’t stop some news and numbers: -- NBC’s final numbers online: NBCU has come out with some numbers for NBCOlympics.com: 75.5 million video streams…

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Telemundo, the Hispanic language media company owned by NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), has unified all its digital media efforts and created a new unit called Digital Media and Emerging Businesses…

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Great lessons in usability ... Almost as soon as Rafat posted about the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, we started getting queries from people who couldn’t figure out how…

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We spend a lot of time separating the wheat from the chaff around here so you don’t have to and the latest broadband release from NBC requires just that. The…

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We’re not going to ruin the results of Usain Bolt’s just-finished 200M run for you… Of course, NBCOlympics.com already has the results (spoilers) on its front page, without any video—just…

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After only five months since going live, Hulu has reached 105 million streams in July, according to numbers released by Nielsen’s VideoCensus. The NBC Universal-News Corp (NYSE: NWS). joint venture’s…

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News organizations continue to feel their way with social networks, trying to find the right formula for relevance.  As Fox News preps an updated version of its Facebook page, NYT…

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With the first week of the 2008 Olympics in the history books, we’re getting a better picture of NBCOlympics.com. Some of the stats through August 15: —31.2 million video streams…

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Michael Phelps who? In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a new world record...and he didn’t…

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-- NBCU claims $10 million in Olympic ad sales: But that’s for TV and digital combined, as NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) reps declined to provide online’s percentage. Lehman Brothers analyst…

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Five days into the Olympic Games, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs hailed the audience ratings results as “phenomenal” now that the first results from its “total audience measurement index,” or…

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We aren’t planning a daily traffic report of this but NBCU’s numbers through this afternoon are out and so far more than 1 million streams of the U.S. men’s unexpected…

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Jeff Bewkes has been sitting at the desk where the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) buck stops for seven months now, and beyond the Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) spin and…

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Whether or not you agree with it, NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) investment in acquiring the rights and producing Olympic multi-platform video provides at least some rational basis for controlling territorial…

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Update: Because people are asking this in the comments thread below: The DVD of the opening ceremony is now for sale...can be ordered here. Original post: NBC Universal (NYSE: GE)…

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Was going to go with ‘let a thousand widgets bloom’ but we’re way beyond that with the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) has set up a…

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-- *Scripps* Networks Interactive: Scripps (NYSE: SSP) Networks’ president John Lansing has been named EVP of its parent company, Scripps Networks Interactive. Previously SVP of the company, Lansing will continue…

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The Beijing Games begin in four days—and with them, the most complicated, intensive digital media Olympics yet. Perkins Miller heads that effort for U.S. rights holder NBC Universal (NYSE: GE)…

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Of the $1.5 billion that marketers are expected to spend on advertising tied to the summer Olympic games, only $100 million will go towards online, said Lehman Brothers internet analyst…

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The compulsion to get GE execs on the record about NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) future—maybe we can make it a drinking game during the Olympics—continues despite the recent reorganization keeping…

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-- *Scripps* Networks: Sarah Cottay is joining as VP of development, reporting to Deanna Brown, president of Scripps (NYSE: SSP) Networks Digital. In this new position, Cottay will focus on…

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Yes, I have been miffed at some of NBCU’s digital Olympics offering, but that doesn’t mean you can’t give them credit for the huge digital effort in putting this together.…

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The National Football League, which has been very protective of its online usage rights, has opened up a bit, and is going to webcast 17 regular-season games, mostly Sunday night…

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