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NBC vs. Apple: SNL's iPhone Sketch
For a simple comedy sketch, the Saturday Night Live takeoff on the new "black backdrop" Apple (AAPL) iPhone ads carries an awful lot of corporate baggage.
The bit aired Nov. 3 and the video was posted the next day on YouTube -- and enthusiastically linked to by TechCrunch.
It's funny enough, with a clever set-up for the "pinch it" gesture. But by Sunday afternoon, NBC Universal (GE) had scrubbed the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 5, 2007 9:15 AM ET -
NBC's Zucker: Apple Turned Dollars into Pennies
It's been two months since Apple (AAPL) and NBC Universal (GE) broke up over video pricing on iTunes, but the wounds don't seem to have healed -- at least for Jeff Zucker.
Variety reports today that NBC's CEO let loose on Apple in a breakfast interview with The New Yorker's Ken Auletta at Syracuse University. Zucker claims that NBC -- Apple's single largest video partner -- made only $15 million MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 29, 2007 4:43 PM ET
