NBC Newsers On Edge About ‘TV 2.0’

By Brian 

NBC staffers “are sweating bullets over the impending release of what the company is calling TV 2.0, a proposed top-to-bottom reorganization of the network to streamline it for the Internet age,” Radar summarizes.

John Cook says NBC Newsers are “particularly on edge because news budgets are a large and easy target.” And that’s not the only reason: “Jay Ireland, a former GE auditor and bean-counter at the company’s plastics division who now runs NBC Universal’s station division, is the exec tasked with wedging NBC News into the TV 2.0 scheme…”

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