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NBC Wanted to "Experiment" with $2.99 TV Show Pricepoint on iTunes, Cut of Apple Hardware Sales

Nearly two months after the fizzle out between NBC Universal and Apple during contract negotiations, NBC U CEO Jeff Zucker spills what some of the contested terms were. Most surprising is that NBC asked for a cut of hardware sales. Not the fact that they wanted a cut, but that they actually asked for it—they'd have more luck asking the devil himself to reverse whatever deal Steve inked with him. (Though handing content providers a slice isn't unprecedented.) Also, that pricing "flexibility" NBC pissed and moaned so loudly about was what we all expected: ""We wanted to take one show, it didn't matter which one it was, and experiment and sell it for $2.99." So in short, it was all about money. More »

9:00 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,569 views, 33 comments

Latest by mbodey: i find it very odd that a group of, presumably, informed tech consumers would be so pissed at NBC for being "greedy" when these same people are getting completely ripped off by apple. "I won't support NBC anymore because they're more »