AllThingsD's Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp 's Chase Carey—that "It's time to start getting paid for broadcast content online"—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead . He makes a good point: Hulu, the joint venture between News Corp.'s Fox, GE's NBC Universal and Disney's ABC, doesn't plan on charging people to watch the stuff it's currently airing on the site–a mix of first-run shows from broadcast TV, a limited number of cable TV shows and a smattering o

General Electric (GE.N) could start to exit a new NBC Universal joint venture with Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) as soon as three-and-a-half years after the ink is dried, two people familiar with the talks said on Monday. Comcast is in talks with NBC Universal’s parent company GE to buy a controlling stake in the joint venture that has broadcast and cable channels as well as movies and theme parks G.E. is looking to sell, and NewsCorp is a potential buyer Under the proposal, NBC Universal

What’s possibly the harshest way to deride a Comcast-NBC Universal joint venture? Compare it to the 2000 star-crossed merger of AOL and Time Warner.That’s just what Time Warner’s current chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, did at an industry conference on Tuesday, according to Peter Kafka at All Things D. And he should know.“Somebody has finally noticed that these things don’t work out so well,” Mr. Bewkes said. Of course, he wouldn’t necessarily mind, adding, “We love to see our competitors tak

By Yinka Adegoke and Anupreeta Das NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric could start to exit a new NBC Universal joint venture with Comcast Corp as soon as three-and-a-half years after the ink is dried, two people familiar with the talks said on Monday. Comcast is in talks with NBC Universal’s parent company GE to buy a controlling stake in the joint venture that has broadcast and cable channels as well as movies and theme parks Under the proposal, NBC Universal would become a joint vent

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