Jeff Zucker

CEO
NBC Universal

Zucker runs one of the world's leading media and entertainment content companies. Its assets include NBC and Telemundo; cable networks USA, SCI FI, Bravo, Oxygen, CNBC, MSNBC and the Weather Channel; movie studios Universal Pictures and Focus Features; digital properties such as Hulu and iVillage; an extensive array of international television channels in Europe, Asia, and Latin America; and theme parks in Hollywood and Orlando. Zucker has spent his entire career at NBC, joining the company's Olympic unit in 1986, straight out of college. Before taking the helm of NBC Entertainment, Zucker spent nearly eight years as the executive producer of NBC News' "Today" show. He was appointed to the position at age 26, making him the youngest executive producer in the history of the program.

Posts With Jeff Zucker

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

Kara Swisher in News on May 13 at 8:59 am PT

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

Kara Swisher in News on March 22 at 1:34 pm PT

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

Kara Swisher in News on March 14 at 1:24 pm PT

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.

Kara Swisher in News on February 24 at 1:46 am PT

Is AOL ready to come about? Hard to see.

Dan Loeb Recruits Former NBC Boss Jeff Zucker for His Raid on Yahoo

Peter Kafka in Media on February 14 at 1:08 pm PT

Also on Loeb’s team: Turnaround consultant Harry Wilson and media consultant Michael Wolf.

Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal

Peter Kafka in Media on May 12, 2011 at 7:02 pm PT

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

Peter Kafka in Media on November 10, 2010 at 4:45 pm PT

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

Peter Kafka in Media on October 15, 2010 at 5:56 am PT

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

Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2010 at 4:40 am PT

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.

TV Studios Aren’t Buying Apple’s 99-Cent Rentals

John Paczkowski in News on September 30, 2010 at 9:05 am PT

Better run a diagnostic on the reality distortion field.…“We think the rest of the studios will see the light and get on board pretty fast,” Steve Jobs said earlier this month of the TV studios wary of its new 99-cent iTunes TV rentals initiative. And while it’s never wise to bet against the Apple CEO, it’s beginning to look like “pretty fast” was an optimistic choice of words.