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Jay Leno's Tonight Show: A cash cow, which 'merits' downsizing?

Deadline :: NBC insiders tell me The Tonight Show went through ”downsizing” today and that 20 staffers lost their jobs. Others tell me the number is more like 25, and producers were forced to take pay cuts or lose their jobs. The Tonight Show has been and still is a cash cow for NBC. So what happened to merit the downsizing?

"‘The Tonight Show’ Lays Off 20 Staffers And Host Jay Leno Takes Pay Cut To Save Jobs" - A report by Nikki Finke, www.deadline.com

NBC News and TV One partner to deliver presidential election coverage to black viewers

NBCUniversal :: NBC News, a source of global news and information, and TV One, which entertains, informs and inspires Black adult viewers, are partnering to provide coverage of the 2012 presidential election with a unique perspective to best serve the needs of Black viewers. This special coverage will include the final night of both the Republication National Convention and the Democratic National Convention, as well as the night of the presidential election. All three nights of coverage will be branded under the TV One: One Vote Matters banner. This agreement marks the first joint effort between the two organizations, as well as TV One’s premiere offering of national convention coverage. The joint announcement was made today by TV One President and CEO Wonya Lucas and NBC News President Steve Capus.

Announced here Press release, www.nbcumv.com

Eight-in-ten following Olympics on TV or digitally: High marks for NBC's Coverage

Pew Research Center | People Press :: Large majorities of Americans are following coverage of the Olympic Games in London. Nearly eight-in-ten (78%) say they have watched or followed Olympic coverage either on television, online or on social networks.

Findings Pew Research Center, www.people-press.org

HT: Mark Little

Josh Constine: Twitter's suspension of Guy Adams account boosted signup rate

... TechCrunch, was told by  "sources".

TechCrunch :: There’s no such thing as bad publicity. A source tells TechCrunch that mainstream news mentions of the temporary suspension of Guy Adams, an NBC Olympics coverage tweeter / hater gave Twitter’s signup rate a boost. The same source revealed that the debacle led to internal communication within Twitter, describing the scandal as having a silver lining: “A good thing”.

A report by Josh Constine, techcrunch.com

The 2012 Summer Olympics: A giant coming-out party for the animated GIF

Nieman Lab :: Did you hear about the Olympic fencer who refused to leave the piste after losing to a computer glitch? I didn’t watch it on television or on NBC’s web livestream, since I don’t have cable. But I did watch the next best thing — maybe the better thing: BuzzFeed’s strangely compelling and haunting recap, presented in videos, still images, and animated GIFs.

Storytelling with animated GIF's - A report by Andrew Phelps, www.niemanlab.org

NBC says live online and tape-delayed Olympics drawing record audience

AllThingsD :: Okay, people who are furious about NBC’s Olympics coverage. The network has thrown you a bone: On a press call today, NBC sports head Mark Lazarus said the company is watching the criticism it’s getting on Twitter and Facebook. And “some of it is, in fact, fair,” Lazarus said.

Happy?

A report by Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com

Twitter 'alerted NBC to Guy Adams' critical tweets

Telegraph :: In an email to The Daily Telegraph, Christopher McCloskey, NBC Sport’s vice-president of communications, said Twitter had actually contacted the network’s social media department to alert them to Mr Adams’s tweets. “Our social media dept was actually alerted to it by Twitter and then we filled out the form and submitted it,” he wrote.

A report by Amy Willis, www.telegraph.co.uk

Deadspin: NBC’s no. 1 tweeting critic has been suspended from Twitter

Reading his last tweet more than once, I wouldn't believe that Guy Adams Twitter account was suspended because he is a critic of NBC. The tweet contains a public email address of an NBC executive to which readers should send their complaints.

DeadSpin :: Guy Adams is The Independent's Los Angeles bureau chief. During the Olympics so far, he has carved out a nice spot on the how-much-NBC's-coverage-sucks beat. Now his Twitter account has been suspended.

Reason? This tweet:

[Guy Adams in a tweet:] The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven't started yet is Gary Zenkel. Tell him what u think! Email: ...

A report by John Koblin, deadspin.com

The Indepedent :: This evening NBC Sports released a statement reading: "We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives."

Written by Guy Adams, independent.co.uk

One year since she was hired, Vivian Schiller’s “wild ride” at NBC is just beginning

Niemanlab :: If you ever find yourself awake past the witching hour, sleeplessly scrolling Twitter, take comfort in knowing that NBC News chief digital strategist Vivian Schiller is right there with you. “I’m up for two or three hours in the middle of the night,” Schiller told me. “But my saving grace is Twitter.”

NBC News’ first ever chief digital strategist reflects on her first year with the network.

A report by Adrienne LaFrance, www.niemanlab.org

NBC Olympics Twitter Tracker measures ‘real-time pulse’

Lost Remote :: A big part of the recent Twitter-NBC Olympics partnership was that they would be bringing back the Twitter Tracker they used back in 2008, but in a bigger way on devices. The tracker can be accessed within the NBC Olympics iPad app and it’s proving to be one of the best ways to discover what games are worth watching at the moment, and here’s why.

A review by Natan Edelsburg, www.lostremote.com