Charlie Rose - Jeff Zucker, president & CEO of NBC Universal

An exclusive conversation with Jeff Zucker, president & CEO of NBC Universal, the man behind scenes of late night television

Watch the full interview here: http://bit.ly/5JQjOl

www.charlierose.com

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• television
• O'Brien
• NBC
• Tonight Show
• CBS
• fallon
• Leno
• Late Night
• Letterman
• Conan
• Charlie Rose

[austrianinak]

Hey Jeff Zucker

I wish I could vote in negative numbers.  I'd give you a -192.

Team CoCo all the way.

I'm done watching NBC. I have cable for a reason!

[Steadno]

conan is way better!

[nonab15]

Zucker's an asshole for even suggesting the Tonight Show move to 12:05. The Tonight Show is an iconinc institution of television.....one of the few.....and this dumbass wants Conan to move the show that has been at 11:30 since it began to move just because Jay Leno's stupid ass 10 o'clock show did not work out and he wants his old job back!? Shame on Zucker and NBC for wanting to do that and for stealing Conan's show and dream right out from under him. Eat shit and die!

[sweetheart2109]

I blame him for Heroes getting cancelled.

[symmylynn]

Conan could have gone to FOX! But he wanted to stay at NBC. Who on Earth would change the Tonight Show?! It's been on at 11:30 for decades and because you don't want to loose friekin Jay Leno, you'll change that?! If anything, they should have bumped Fallon, he could have gone back to SNL or something, go somewhere else, but now they have Jay Leno, which not many people like and Conan on a different station. + Conan's right.. TV is changing, soon it won't even matter if you're on network or not!

[jayrobson88]

@RyanInLA i dnt think thats true. He's pretty clear in explaining why he did the things he did. Conan was leaving so they offer him the tonight show as a quick fix. Then the time comes and their quick fix is screwing them cos they dont wanna lose Leno. So they put him on at 10. Makes sense. Then when it doesnt work they try and reverse it, but Conan's given a slight upper hand (he has the whole hour and the tonight show branding). Jays more at blame for conans demise than zucker/nbc.

[RyanInLA]

Watch the entire interview and you'll see the guy is an airhead. He just arbitrarily spits out bullet points and has nothing insightful to say. He has no business running anything, much less a creative enterprise like a TV network. Why did he do this interview anyway? Charlie seems annoyed and rightfully so.

[235RB]

this guys a fruitcake.

[PLISKEN12]

JEFF FUCKER !!!

[danfrisco]

Amazes me this guy still has a job. Pushed Leno out for Conan back in 2004. Then decided in 2009 to hire Leno for 10pm/for five weekday shows to keep costs down. Leno sucked in the ratings and 11pm newscasts and Conan struggled due to that poor ratings lead in. Zucker's new master plan, move Leno to 11:35pm for just 30 minutes and push Conan and Fallon back 30 minutes. So many are out of work and this twit still has a job? NBC is clueless.