Not because of there online service though. It profits from other areas. If those other areas don't do well then there will be no profits for NBC. they could have had more if they stuck with iTunes but they will learn that soon enough.

Hey, I like Hulu. It has worked 9 out of the 10 times I have used it. I like getting free tv over the air. :-)

But would I buy from them???? Are you out of your mind???? I trust Apple to give me a downloaded show that I can keep, but these greedy bast**ds, ???? NEVER.

Like I said free is good. I would have paid on iTunes but if they do not mind giving it away, so much the better. ---- Gee, I wonder where that "profit" comes from. ???

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...what kind of creative accounting might be used... Big corporations have been known to hide bad news from investors, but they can only do it for so long...

That's right. They're just making s*** up to piss you people off and pretending that they're making money...sure, that's it. It's so obvious, I can't believe shareholders aren't suing them right now.

I mean, they announced a profit, and they're not on itunes any more, so they MUST be lying.

Not because of there online service though. It profits from other areas. If those other areas don't do well then there will be no profits for NBC. they could have had more if they stuck with iTunes but they will learn that soon enough.

You're financial mind is amazing. If their other areas don't do well, there would be no profits! Wow.

So you're prediction that while other forms of revenue are tenuous, at best, and barely could be hoped to remain where they are, iTunes income would be rolling in so fast they wouldn't even need those other areas. Right...

And they made $15 in revenue last year from iTunes. So how much more would they be making?

but they can't share any web revenue with the writers, huh?

Don't you understand. Alternative distribution channels are just so unsure currently. Maybe they'll make a dollar or two, maybe they won't. They don't want to risk saying "Hey, for every $1 we make on other distribution, you get 2 cents" because they would then feel 'compelled' to actually make money for fear of letting the writers down. So instead of devising incredible long-term plans, or waiting to see how everything will shake out, they'll feel pressure to just jump on the first money-making bandwagon, damn the consequences.

They're doing this for the writer's best interest in the LONG run. It's just that the writers are so simple-minded, they don't understand it.

Oh, and all that distribution on the internet is ALL about promotion. They aren't doing it for money, they're doing it to promote the show so people will watch it and buy the DVDs, thus helping the writers gain more money. Any income/revenue they generate is barely enough to cover the costs associated with promotion. That's why that part is just squeaking by.

i have to laugh at this statement:

"They don't want to risk saying "Hey, for every $1 we make on other distribution, you get 2 cents" because they would then feel 'compelled' to actually make money for fear of letting the writers down."

this has got to be biggest piece of bs i've seen you write. so basically the studios are asking writers to give the studios a break by working their butts off and get paid zero with the "hopes" of making money in the long run? wow! you are an idiot. why don't they just ask these writers to be interns? at least then, these interns won't be expecting much.

you're points of view are pretty sad and pathetic.

Maybe Zucker is unclear on the concept - $15 million on iTunes is found money - his alternative is not only ZERo but less than zero - as Hulu is probably a $100 million dollar launch ... SAnDisk really? They make fine memory cards but to rely on them as your online sales? Can anyone say torrent? Zucker - good at corporate politics but not so digital smart.

"So instead of devising incredible long-term plans, or waiting to see how everything will shake out, they'll feel pressure to just jump on the first money-making bandwagon, damn the consequences."

I can guarantee you the number 1 question asked in any meeting talking about future plans is "How do we make money off of this?"

Just think $15 million for NBC does ‘equal pennies’, they studied it over and over and came to the conclusions that it ‘equals pennies’… So even if it hurts all frustrated Macfanboys it means nothing but ‘pennies’. NBC must have also seen no innovative anything for this year at Apple… I mean AppleTV in a market where there’s a bunch of TV Boxes with internet already, and a ultra thin portable that was a copy from a decade old ultraportable and instead of improving it just got heavier deficiencies like no replacement battery, cousin of iFraud iPhone (imagine to give up on your 'must use everyday working tool or communications' for a week or so, loosing that way clients information and conversations)… Yes, $15 million makes up for it!

Amazing you can't even comprehend the art of the overblown satrical comment.

Try re-reading it without the "Oh, testudo wrote it, so I'm going to find something to completely disagree about" part of your brain that you apparently use for everything (as opposed to the "Apple has made something, it must be great!" part).

The poster's reply was childish and stupid, and clearly he didn't read your post too closely.

I can't really blame him for skimming it, though. I happen to comprehend the "art of the overblown satirical comment", and that, I'm afraid, was bad art.