[BC] Bye, Bye NBC

Tom Radiofreetom at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 09:32:19 CDT 2007


Um...

GE _started_ NBC.  Concantation:

GE and Westinghouse form RCA; RCA forms NBC

GE is, was, and continues to hold major chunks of NBC only because 
the operations weren't included when RCA was sold to Thompson.  And 
there's a Radio Network, not just a TV network, as well.

Tom S.

Robert Reymont wrote:
>GE bought it some years ago!!   Who thought GE would want to own a 
>TV Network?  There is always someone out there who will buy it... 
>maybe a private equity group??
>
>Robert
>
>At 08:46 PM 10/13/2007 -0400, you 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?





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