Video killed the radio star, and Apple killed video apparently

According to http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/10/23/itunes.3b.songs.sold/, Itunes accounts for 36% of the companie's total revenue, and according to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/23/BUN4SU8RB.DTL&feed=rss.business, it made $6.2 billion in revenue from sales of its iPods, iPhones and Macintosh computers this summer. That figures to be roughly 2 billion dollars for itunes sales. Not only does it make that much money, but it brought the idea of actually paying for music back into existence all by itself. But apparently, no one gave this information to Jeff Zucker. The president and CEO of NBC doesn't seem to be too wild about apple and how little money it makes him. Just a mere 15 millions dollars a year. But I should cut him a little slack. After all, most presidents these days have no clue what's going on around them.

Itunes has become one of the last hopes of both record companies looking to earn money from the bands that they have signed, as well as television studios and movie comapanies to sell their films and sitcoms. With sites like youtube and literally at least hundreds of online places to watch these things, the concept of paying for what you can get for free seems more and more ridiculous.

It's fine if he wants to pull all of his TV shows and shit off of the apple itunes site, but to go and bash what they're doing to the entertainment industry? Its like walking up to a guy and while that guy is helping you fix a flat tire on your car, you blindside him with a baseball bat and then screw his wife.

AND, on top of verbally thrashing apple, he has the balls to complain that he doesn't get any money from the hardware they sell? Then in that case, why isn't he forking over a percentage of the complete season dvd's of Lost to apple?

Or a box set of The Office? 30 Rock? My Name Is Earl?

I'm sure that they've hooked a fair number of viewers into buying the seasons after they have downloaded a single episode on itunes to sample it out. But no, thats not the way things go for good old Jeff. Now he's just going to lose more money when consumers start downloading episodes of all of the series' on his network off of some website that doesn't care about net revenues or potential bankruptcy. Serves him right for that forked tongue of his.