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Monday, December 13, 2010

Live from NY: SNL deal$ (Smart Brief)

Is President and CEO of NBC Universal Jeff Zucker accepting trading this line the pockets of his closest allies before resumption of Comcast?

That say some people within the 30 Rock to the NBC Universal Covenant to sell streams video service Netflix fresh episodes of "SNL" a day after that they air on TV.

The move appears to undermine Hulu in his quest to be the only place for network broadcast during season tariff. It is more strange when one considers that created Hulu: NBC Universal. Station owner News Corp., Walt Disney Co. and Providence Equity are other donors Hulu.

Agreement feeds of a Comcast, key rival cable operator on the threshold of the acquisition of NBC Universal. While securities legislation requires Comcast to silence on the NBC current transactions, a famous rival content provider said, "if I was Brian Roberts and Steve Burke, I would shoot anybody that treat."

Grouped in the "SNL" agreement are previous seasons of "30" and old episodes of "Office."

The two "SNL" and "30 Rock" are produced by Lorne Michaels, who is supposedly received nicely from the sale, although others say Michaels was not one that drove the agreement. Claire Atkinson

Good Skate

On the network of the alphabet, former head of marketing Mike Benson could ousted from his position, but that has not prevented from appearing on ABC, albeit inadvertently.

Benson followed his boss, ABC Entertainment CEO Steve McPherson, out the door this summer, but it still has a connection of Disney. Benson is dating from "All my children" Star Rebecca Budig (photo), which is currently in the ice as a competitor on "Skate With The Stars".

Given the abundance of support on the margins of the rink.

Benson was spotted to support its squeeze, dressed in smart trousers and a jacket. Unfortunately, "Skate with the stars," BBC Worldwide production filmed in CBS studios is no match for her big sister.

Entertainment Weekly said it's a "low-rent verging on a version of"Dancing with the stars"homeless." Claire Atkinson

Fool

It is a clash of the scrupulous past New York.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani took a few shots at the former Governor and New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

At a given time, Giuliani referred Spitzer, which is a take-no-prisoners-style Attorney General from 1999 to 2006, as a "moron" to an insurance industry confer Conference at the Waldorf-en hotel, Vancouver on Wednesday evening of the day.

The observations that Giuliani, who served as u.s. counsel hattan the end of the 1980s, waxed Corne on the reputation of sea international Hank Greenberg, CEO at a charity dinner us honour for sea exec.

Greenberg was forced into retirement development, five years after Spitzer targeted him and General Insurance in an accounting scandal.

"I think that what has been done for [Hank Greenberg] is one of great outrage in American legal history," Giuliani, said the event industry charity session of pensions according to the sources it. ""

"And the person who is terrible on televi sion," Giuliani joked tendees. "." "This as a moron," the former Mayor added.

The Spitzer spokesperson fired, saying that "for Rudy Giuliani defend AIG and the AIG executives dear taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars so that commit fraud told you you need to know."

Requests for comments of Giuliani had not returned. Mark DeCambre

Eliminated

Legal spat between Patricia Cohen, ex-wife of the infamous hedge fund trader Stevie Cohen, and his former lawyer, Gaytri Kachroo, getting heated before it gets even started.

The Kachroo legal team is accusing Patricia avoid filing procedure, she started when she continued Kachroo for breach of contract. But Patricia side is saying the Kachroo legal aid are all wrong in seeking deposits until the case is heard by the judge.

Kachroo helped Patricia make headlines this year by in his rich ex for interest "substantial, if not control" hedge fund Empire Cohen 13 billion.

The combination stems from Patricia claims that Cohen lied about their marital assets when they divorced 20 years ago.

However, a few months, Patricia Kachroo, fired and continued his $ 60,000 for breach of contract. A new legal team - third - hired to handle the case.

According to documents from State Court, Patricia should appear Tuesday last for "an order requiring" repository - the second such as ask these past few weeks. But neither the lawyer representing it, Robert Roseman, Patricia presented at the hearing, a person with knowledge of the situation, said post.

Word is that Kachroo, declined comment, consider countersue for legal charges against him. Kaja Whitehouse

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