Who: Alec Baldwin interviewed by Janet Maslin
What: TimesTalks’ “Live with Alec Baldwin”
Where: The Times Center
When: December 3, 2009
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The sale of NBC Universal from General Electric Co to Comcast Corp, which Comcast hoped to complete almost a month ago, looks like it's actually happening this time. According to the New York Times' Michael J. de la Merced, Bill Carter, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, GE reached a tentative agreement to buy Vivendi SA's 20 percent stake in NBC, ending a stalemate that held up the GE-Comcast deal: (more...)

Reuters is reporting that according to sources Comcast Corp and General Electric Co have agreed to make current NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker the head of their new proposed joint venture, though the "structure of a new board is still being negotiated" and Peter Chernin's role is still up in the air. From the report: (more...)

In a sign of the cable news apocalypse, Fox News and MSNBC may no longer be at each others throats. A report by Brian Stelter in the New York Times, and another by Joe Flint in the Los Angeles Times, reveals a deal that began at the top of each organization, and has led both networks to tamper down the criticism. It sounds like a historic truce between two longtime enemies - and a truce that both organizations clearly did not want public. Now it opens the door to more questions than before. (more...)