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Jeff Zucker 
CEO
NBC Universal
Recently hired by Time Warner to reinvigorate its CNN cable news brand in a fast-changing environment, Jeff Zucker has worked everywhere in the TV sector, and specializes in how it creates and delivers its offerings in the future. As newly installed president of CNN Worldwide, he oversees 23 branded news and information businesses, including CNN’s U.S. television network, CNN International, HLN and CNN Digital. As president and CEO of NBC Universal, he headed up a global media and entertainment content company that included the NBC broadcast network and news division, and all of its cable entities, including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Bravo, Oxygen and Syfy. Zucker also ran the NBC Universal Television Group, and was president of the Entertainment, News & Cable Group and NBC Entertainment.
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Zucker Is Lead Candidate to Head CNN
Jeff Zucker, the former chief executive of NBCUniversal, is the lead candidate to become the next president of CNN Worldwide, say people familiar with the matter.Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion
The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
Yahoo Hopes to Fight Back at Activist Shareholder Third Point With More New Board Members of Its Own
In the battle for the board, Yahoo is not sitting still.
Nobody Puts Dan Loeb in the Corner: Third Point Begins Proxy Bombing Yahoo in 3 … 2 … 1
And if you prefer to go all “Fatal Attraction” instead of “Dirty Dancing,” the activist shareholder is not going to be ignored!
Proxy Ho? Like Yahoo, AOL Could Face Alternate Board Slate From Irked Investor as Early as Today.
Is AOL ready to come about? Hard to see.
Dan Loeb Recruits Former NBC Boss Jeff Zucker for His Raid on Yahoo
Also on Loeb’s team: Turnaround consultant Harry Wilson and media consultant Michael Wolf.
Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal
The Web video joint venture figures out how to keep TV shows on its free site and paid service, while keeping its owner/content providers happy. What about CEO Jason Kilar?
A Web Video Truce: Free Hulu Goes Away From Boxee, Replaced by Hulu Plus
The Hulu-Boxee war is over! The terms of the truce: Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to get Web video on TV, will remove links to Hulu’s free service–but will give users the ability to use the Hulu Plus paid service.NBC U Perks Up a Bit for Its New Owners
This should make the folks in Philadelphia feel a bit better about their purchase-to-be: GE says that its NBC Universal unit, soon to become a Comcast property, had a “pretty solid” third quarter.
Viral Video: Jeff Zucker Gets Zuckered
Yahoo is not the only HR excitement these days! Here is a very funny spoof of the firing of NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker last week by new owners Comcast, which was on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” late-night television show. BoomTown interviewed the media mogul at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference in 2009, which is also below. Guess which one I like better.