[BC] Bye, Bye NBC

[Tom]

Maybe the same outfit that bought the REST of 
GE's broadcast / electronics properties... 
Thompson.  IIRC, they can claim US "citizenship" 
because they have a North American HQ here.  I 
mean, they've already bought RCA... and NBC 
started out as the operations division of... 
RCA.  (G-below middle-C; E above middle-C; 
middle-C = G E C - and yeah, I know the various stories behind the chimes...)

In checking various sources, it seems that 
Thompson was even started by one of the founders of GE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_SA

Thomson is named after the electrical engineer 
Elihu Thomson, who was born in Manchester, 
England, on March 26, 1853. Thomson moved to 
Philadelphia at the age of 5, with his family.

Thomson formed the Thomson-Houston Electric 
Company in 1879 with Edwin Houston. The company 
merged with the Edison General Electric Company 
to become the General Electric Company in 1892. 
In 1893, the Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston 
(CFTH) was formed in Paris, a sister company to 
GE in the United States. It is from this company 
that the modern Thomson Group would evolve.

While all Wiki articles should be 
cross-referenced elsewhere for accuracy, given the nature of the beast...

Thompson already has absorbed RCA, Grass Valley, 
and others, so NBC would bring the pattern full circle...

Broadcast equipment and services

    * Video disk recorders and servers
    * Digital news production
    * Cameras
    * Routers and control surfaces
    * Video switchers
    * Broadcast facilities
    * Digital media asset management
    * Analogue and digital radio broadcasting equipment

So, news and entertainment programming next?

Tom S.

RokprtMike at aol.com wrote:
>FT had an interesting article on NBC a few days ago. GE is going to wait
>until after the 2008 Olympics to make a decision 
>on the sale of NBC. The article
>claimed it was worth between 34 and 40 billion bucks.
>I would like to know who would possibly purchase 
>it?  Glad I don't have to deal with it anymore. 
>I know what the people that are
>still there feel.
>
>Mike Hemeon
>NBC Principal Engineer (RET)