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	<title>Comments on: Is NBC the New AOL?</title>
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		<title>By: Ex-NBC Fan</title>
		<link>http://jaydedapper.com/2009/12/07/is-nbc-the-new-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1364</link>
		<dc:creator>Ex-NBC Fan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@John, no offense but DeDapper hasn&#039;t had &quot;supposed&quot; year in the news business. 21 years isn&#039;t &quot;supposed&quot; you snarky little twit. Us hardcore fans don&#039;t take his axing lightly. We miss him in this market. Obviously you&#039;re not familiar with him at all, but that goes without saying.

It&#039;s clear that you work for GE. I&#039;d like to take this opportunity to say thanks for running a once vaunted brand into the proverbial ground. If Comcast is lucky it&#039;ll be able to salvage the wreckage. Unfortunately, GE&#039;s involved for years to come. I&#039;m sure what will likely happen is that all the locals will shutter and the bandwidth or stations will be sold off. There will be some national news, great, but your shortsightedness and lack of technical prowess has limited your reach, so you will suffer for years to come. That&#039;s a given. [That local website redesign {the umpteenth unsuccessful redesign in a very short time I might add} is so sad and confusing. Most UEX designers look at that and wretch. And the iPhone app? What is that, a game, a puzzle, an art piece? You call that a content distribution mechanism? Puhleez!!!]

What I don&#039;t understand clearly is that if the &quot;price it paid was earned back within years after the sale of rca&quot; why didn&#039;t it sell it then instead of taking the NBC brand and trashing it? It&#039;s crazy. You make the public suffer because you greedy-ass bastards want to make a profit that few other companies can even imagine.

And your comment that &quot;content is king&quot; and that DeDapper clearly lacked much else to write about is so disingenuous. I mean really, if content is really king why does NBC seem to have such opaque blinders on? They&#039;re content for the past few years is pathetic. If it weren&#039;t for the cable nets you&#039;d have zilch, nada. And what you&#039;ve done to WNBC? You call that king-making content? Sorry, that&#039;s some serious junk you got up on there. No wonder you don&#039;t even rank in the market any longer. No one watches the crap you throw up there and hoodwink your advertisers into buying into. And LX-TX? You call that content? We call that Public Access with a handheld camera and lackluster personalities. Tired.

As far as Jay being &quot;out of [his] league&quot;. So, that seems to imply that you&#039;re in the league, right. Well, good luck with the deal. I hope you all make out like bandits while we see the first television network go down in flames. Lucky you! Poor us. But you wouldn&#039;t care, it&#039;s not about what&#039;s good, it&#039;s about the balance sheet.

Let&#039;s just hope you can keep that balance sheet stable, or we&#039;ll be seeing you on the unemployment line in less than 5 years dude.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@John, no offense but DeDapper hasn&#8217;t had &#8220;supposed&#8221; year in the news business. 21 years isn&#8217;t &#8220;supposed&#8221; you snarky little twit. Us hardcore fans don&#8217;t take his axing lightly. We miss him in this market. Obviously you&#8217;re not familiar with him at all, but that goes without saying.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s clear that you work for GE. I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to say thanks for running a once vaunted brand into the proverbial ground. If Comcast is lucky it&#8217;ll be able to salvage the wreckage. Unfortunately, GE&#8217;s involved for years to come. I&#8217;m sure what will likely happen is that all the locals will shutter and the bandwidth or stations will be sold off. There will be some national news, great, but your shortsightedness and lack of technical prowess has limited your reach, so you will suffer for years to come. That&#8217;s a given. [That local website redesign {the umpteenth unsuccessful redesign in a very short time I might add} is so sad and confusing. Most UEX designers look at that and wretch. And the iPhone app? What is that, a game, a puzzle, an art piece? You call that a content distribution mechanism? Puhleez!!!]</p>
<p>What I don&#8217;t understand clearly is that if the &#8220;price it paid was earned back within years after the sale of rca&#8221; why didn&#8217;t it sell it then instead of taking the NBC brand and trashing it? It&#8217;s crazy. You make the public suffer because you greedy-ass bastards want to make a profit that few other companies can even imagine.</p>
<p>And your comment that &#8220;content is king&#8221; and that DeDapper clearly lacked much else to write about is so disingenuous. I mean really, if content is really king why does NBC seem to have such opaque blinders on? They&#8217;re content for the past few years is pathetic. If it weren&#8217;t for the cable nets you&#8217;d have zilch, nada. And what you&#8217;ve done to WNBC? You call that king-making content? Sorry, that&#8217;s some serious junk you got up on there. No wonder you don&#8217;t even rank in the market any longer. No one watches the crap you throw up there and hoodwink your advertisers into buying into. And LX-TX? You call that content? We call that Public Access with a handheld camera and lackluster personalities. Tired.</p>
<p>As far as Jay being &#8220;out of [his] league&#8221;. So, that seems to imply that you&#8217;re in the league, right. Well, good luck with the deal. I hope you all make out like bandits while we see the first television network go down in flames. Lucky you! Poor us. But you wouldn&#8217;t care, it&#8217;s not about what&#8217;s good, it&#8217;s about the balance sheet.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s just hope you can keep that balance sheet stable, or we&#8217;ll be seeing you on the unemployment line in less than 5 years dude.</p>
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		<title>By: Lou Marinaro</title>
		<link>http://jaydedapper.com/2009/12/07/is-nbc-the-new-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1361</link>
		<dc:creator>Lou Marinaro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m just old and way out of touch, but if you want to even attempt to get people to watch traditional broadcast television, put on a good show with an interesting story, be it news or entertainment.
Remember the cliche &quot;If you build it, they will come&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m just old and way out of touch, but if you want to even attempt to get people to watch traditional broadcast television, put on a good show with an interesting story, be it news or entertainment.<br />
Remember the cliche &#8220;If you build it, they will come&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
		<link>http://jaydedapper.com/2009/12/07/is-nbc-the-new-aol/comment-page-1/#comment-1359</link>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you make a lot of very good points but your conclusion is seriously flawed. GE had two options: invest big in a media company at a time of phenomenal change or get out. thats it. its an investment decision and GE made the right one. The price could be bounced around forever but its not something to even worry too much about. GE is getting out of a business it entered into 25 years ago as a simple hedge (thus the beginning of the conglomerate). the price it paid was earned back within years after the sale of rca. ever since, NBCU has &quot;only&quot; generated an average return of capital of 11% while returning amazing amounts of cash flow to parent. it may not have been the gem like other businesses but it surely wasnt a dog. and the broadcast is ok (nightly news, today show, olympics), its the primetime that isnt (and this is less than 10% of the overall company, something id expect you to understand with all of your years of supposed experience in the news business).

it appears you do understand one concept. content is king. you clearly lacked much else to write about and tried to take a swing at a deal that is out of your league. as far as what comcast can do with it, thats up to them but hopefully they fail so youll have some additional &quot;content&quot; to write about in five years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you make a lot of very good points but your conclusion is seriously flawed. GE had two options: invest big in a media company at a time of phenomenal change or get out. thats it. its an investment decision and GE made the right one. The price could be bounced around forever but its not something to even worry too much about. GE is getting out of a business it entered into 25 years ago as a simple hedge (thus the beginning of the conglomerate). the price it paid was earned back within years after the sale of rca. ever since, NBCU has &#8220;only&#8221; generated an average return of capital of 11% while returning amazing amounts of cash flow to parent. it may not have been the gem like other businesses but it surely wasnt a dog. and the broadcast is ok (nightly news, today show, olympics), its the primetime that isnt (and this is less than 10% of the overall company, something id expect you to understand with all of your years of supposed experience in the news business).</p>
<p>it appears you do understand one concept. content is king. you clearly lacked much else to write about and tried to take a swing at a deal that is out of your league. as far as what comcast can do with it, thats up to them but hopefully they fail so youll have some additional &#8220;content&#8221; to write about in five years.</p>
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		<title>By: clie78787878</title>
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		<dc:creator>clie78787878</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a massive change underway in the mobile media market as it becomes unshackled from the operators’ portals that have dominated it for a decade, all without having made any significant inroads into the content use of mobile users. The new capped data packages, fuelled by further competition, will see a total revamp of the mobile media market. It will no longer be based on portals but on direct services by content and services providers via open source phones and mobile-friendly Internet-based services. The next step is the continued emergence of m-commerce and in particular m-payment services. 

hazz...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a massive change underway in the mobile media market as it becomes unshackled from the operators’ portals that have dominated it for a decade, all without having made any significant inroads into the content use of mobile users. The new capped data packages, fuelled by further competition, will see a total revamp of the mobile media market. It will no longer be based on portals but on direct services by content and services providers via open source phones and mobile-friendly Internet-based services. The next step is the continued emergence of m-commerce and in particular m-payment services. </p>
<p>hazz&#8230;</p>
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