10- Jeff Zucker- President and C.E.O. NBC Universal Entertainment
Pros: Small town All-American guy. Grew up in Homestead, Florida. Attended Harvard University. Worked his way up through the ranks at NBC. Cancer survivor and devoted husband and father of four.
Cons: Puppet whore for parent company General Electric. Sold out his former best friend and college roommate Conan O'Brien.
Bottom Line: Where does one begin? Mr. Zucker has successfully run NBC into the ground. Is it his fault? No. But he gets the blame for his 5 million dollar plus salary/comp package. He's the perfect puppet for brass at NBC/GE. Spineless and money hungry, Zucker gets to be the ass-clown for the globilization driven eco-friendly empire at General Electric. Before Mr. Zucker took the reigns, NBC controlled network television ratings from the Today Show to Nightly News to prime time to Late Night. Prime time shows such as The Cosby Show, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, Law and Order, ER, and dozens of other shows dominated the scene for 20 years. The ever-so greedy and money hungry folks at GE found their man in Zucker. The worst case against Zucker so far is when he screwed over his former best friend Conan during the Late Night shows dibacle of 2010. He never had the decency to even shoot straight with O'Brien. He ducked and ran and never answered his phone calls....(presumably). The "green" network better slide a bit to the right or eventually the center-right people of this country which make up 70% of their audience. Soon they will start to figure it out and choose not to watch at all....they may even choose to quit buying those ovens and appliances as well.
Sentence: No sentence for Zucker...we'll let him off for time served. Getting sodomized by the top-brass at GE has been hard enough for the guy.
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