Predictions on the New NBC

[seeveebee]

Y'all jumped on me when I told you last summer mean ole Ansin was spot on when he predicted Leno would fail miserably and kill the Affiliates. OK, well being the soar winner that I am --here are a few more predictions:

1.) Brian Roberts will become the most powerful man in media by 2011--for about 20 years. His Comcast will dominate distribution and content in a way that could bring about serious regulation. He will dominate Cable Programming after the NBC acquisition and he'll control the pipeline to your home, too. He understands that Content is King and thats where he will crush Verizon.

2.) NBC will become A CABLE NETWORK. THIS will be the move that opens the flood gates to the dissolution of the failed network/affiliate relationship. Probably only 2 networks will ultimately continue relationships the way they exist now. Strong Local stations will becone 100% local, others will shut down, and at least 2 major TV Networks (1 being NBC) will become very strong Cable properties.

Comcast owned NBC will dominate Cable TV or offer formidable challenge in almost every meaningful segment of Cable.

3.) Jay Leno will "retire" soon after Comcast gets 51% ownership of NBC.

[dotcomeditor]

Leno may retire, but Conan needs to be put out to pasture -- and quickly.

[tomen8r]

I agree. Conan is done. Put him back on in the early AM hours while placing Leno back in his spot.

[kvn]

I just smell more worthless home shopping and infomercial channels. With the new digital/HD advances, there will be 2000 channels available with only 2 or 3 actual decent ones, The Weather Channel and ESPN.

[leftylucy]

Dec 7, 2009 12:27:51 GMT -5 tomen8r said:

I agree. Conan is done. Put him back on in the early AM hours while placing Leno back in his spot.

Conan is not done. Jeff Zucker is done.

Look at the trend every night. Leno is a terrible lead-in for local news and Conan. The one night Leno wasn't on(President's speech and the Biggest Loser), the numbers for local news and Conan actually spiked. Plus another problem created by Zucker, NBC tweaked Conan to be a more mainstream when it went into 11:30 slot. It's not the same 12:35 show which was very different.