In some newly released videos, NBC News discussed their gameplan for the upcoming midterm election season. According to Meet the Press host David Gregory, his network is “going to own politics.” It’d be an understatement to say that the political air has been more charged recently, and NBC News President Steve Capus also wants to take advantage of the “defining moment” he sees for both the country and for his news division.

Fox Business Network correspondent Charlie Gasparino was on the air yesterday to discuss some recent financial findings about his former employer, NBC.

After a little initial awkwardness (“I used to work there,” he said), he got to the negative news for NBC – and positive news for NBC CEO Jeff Zucker.

When NBC began their Green Initiative in 2007, a plan that forced all of their programs to incorporate “green” storylines twice a year during designated “Green Weeks,” any rational person could peg it as a cynical attempt to latch onto a social movement. However, we didn’t have proof of just how cynical it was until the Wall Street Journal’s Amy Chozick did a fascinating piece on it yesterday. Nearly everything in the article is stuff anyone could have assumed watching the “Green Week” broadcasts, but reading the quotes and seeing just how seemingly gleeful the NBC execs are in their cynicism, is surprisingly painful.

As has been rumored for awhile, Comcast and GE announced this morning they were forming a joint venture.

Comcast would own 51%, GE would own 49%, Comcast would manage and the venture consists of NBCU businesses, Comcasts’s cable networks and certain digital properties, among other things.

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.

The man who preceded Jeff Zucker as head of NBCU, Bob Wright, was on Fox Business Network yesterday in an interview focused on Autism. But FBN anchor Liz Claman (a former NBCU employee herself) also asked about the potential sale of the company, Jay Leno‘s lagging ratings and more.

So after news broke this morning that Ben Silverman was leaving NBCU, more than one person in the office wondered a) how come Nikki Finke hadn’t been the one to break it, and b) what would Nikke Finke blog about from now on. Nikke Finke has subsequently solved both mysteries for us in what could be referred to as The Finke-Silverman Experiment Ends, A Play in 5 Acts.