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September 6, 2007

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Peacock-a-thon: Steve Jobs still willing to take NBC back

Posted Sep. 6, ’07, 8:50 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iTunes » iTunes Store

Jeff ZuckerNo, I’m not expecting NBC CEO Jeff Zucker to show up outside 1 Infinite Loop, with a set of iPod speakers blaring “In Your Eyes,” but there’s a chance that should that extremely unlikely event occur, that he might not find Steve Jobs too hard-hearted.

“We hope they’ll reconsider their decisions over time and maybe find out that iTunes and iPods are a great way to digitally distribute their content to tens or maybe hundreds of millions of customers around the world,” Jobs said in an interview.
“Like that new touch-screen iPod we introduced yesterday,” Jobs continued. “Man, would Heroes really look great on that thing. Or on the iPod nano, which—did we mention—now plays video? Heck, for you we’d figure out a way to get video onto the shuffle. That’s just how much we care.”

You know what, I’m going to go out on a limb here. NBC’s fall lineup starts in earnest around September 24th, and I’m going to say that I’ll be surprised if the two companies don’t come to some sort of reconciliation by then. Neither of them really wants to lose out on the potential revenue from a brand new season of shows, and let me tell you: Unbox is not going to cut it. So I guess the only question is: deal or no deal?

[via The iPod Observer]


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