Jeff Zucker Session

NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker: The Full D7 Interview

Kara Swisher in D7 on July 2, 2009 at 12:40 pm PT

Jeff Zucker runs one of the world’s leading media and entertainment content companies, which is also being caught in the throes of a major shift, due to the impact of the Internet over the last decade. In this onstage interview with me at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference, Zucker talks about the state of the television business; the changing advertising market; the impact of Hulu, an online premium video joint venture NBC launched with News Corp.; and precisely what he meant when he said that the Web was turning “analog dollars into digital pennies.”

D7 Video: NBC’s Jeff Zucker

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 9:21 am PT

Onstage with Kara Swisher this morning, the CEO of NBC Universal pointed out that his company makes money from both advertising and subscriber fees. He also discussed Hulu, “Seinfeld” and “Law and Order.”

NBC CEO Jeff Zucker: Hulu Will Start Breaking Even “Soon”

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 9:15 am PT

Most of you think of NBC as a broadcaster. Jeff Zucker wishes you wouldn’t. The CEO of NBC Universal likes to point out, repeatedly, that his company boasts an array of cable channels, which make money from both advertising and subscriber fees. This dual income stream looks like the way of the future for big media companies (at least in the near term), but this model also makes it hard for big media companies to adapt to the Web–if they give their programming away for free on the Internet, why will cable companies pay for the same stuff? Yet Zucker has just committed to work for another two years with Hulu, the joint venture with Fox and Disney that does just that.