Variety: NBC Wanted Cut of iPod Revenue
Variety delivers a bombshell: Remember the whole Apple iTunes-NBC fiasco, where NBC pulled out of selling their television shows on iTunes, and Apple summarily dumped them from the iTunes Store immediately instead of waiting until the end of the year?
It turns out that in addition to variable episode pricing, or perhaps in lieu of it, NBC CEO Jeff Zucker wanted a cut of Apple’s hardware sales.
“Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our content, and made a lot of money,” Zucker said in the article.
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