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“Today I'm proud to say that in the last five, six years, we run a Superbowl for them. We ran the Olympics for them with all the window picks. So we've become the backbone of this company in terms of all their live and linear play out systems today, for example…”

“I remember the day they said, Hey, we cannot sign the order because we want to know your financials. And I was scared because we were like, we were, I think we were less than ten million dollars and the deal was a seventeen million dollar deal at that one time…”

“Al Michaels, the Monday Night Football commentator, like a sports team trade, to NBC in exchange for the IP rights to Oswald the Rabbit.”

“We haven't done a Superbowl ad in two years now. So this will be our This will be a nice one to come back to. I'm really excited. We have a partnership with NBC, so it's a big part of that.”

“The AFL and NBC announced that they've just signed a new five year, 37.5 million dollar deal.”

“They each end up paying one million dollars for the rights to both broadcast it. So this game now is going to be broadcast to the nation on both CBS and NBC, and in addition to them each spending a million dollars for the rights to this one game, they also bot…”

“So I had been approached and did a pilot for NBC called The accelerator and they spent like a half million dollars on this and you guys came on and it came out great.”

“You're not going to have somebody at NBC or CNN or Fox come down and tell Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow or Anderson Cooper. Hey, you can't cover the story, but there is a bunch of self censorship that occurs.”

“It's the first time I've seen a streaming service like Peacock do something that's innovative, and I was surprised.”

“Every one session watching that NFL game is a unique session. So NBC has to build out twenty million unique viewing sessions as opposed to broadcasting a single signal that everyone on the other side has to watch at the same, same time and in the same way.”

“They're looking for the little things that outages don't cause that are actually seven times more impactful to a consumer experience. Outages happening once, For every one issue caused by an outage, there's seven times the incidents, what I call them, because …”

“NBC and these, the big platforms had this like static audience that they could tell the story of the athletes to in the lead up to the Olympics. So they could like build the story of an athlete for the many months leading up to it. And that's just gone now wit…”

“Tom Brokaw, one of the great newscasters on NBC, See started in Yankton, South Dakota as a, as an on-air disc jockey.”

“I'm not sure the consumer behavior has changed much. It expresses itself differently when they're watching this screen than they're watching NBC, but at the heart of it, it's still the same desires.”

“We'll write checks off the balance sheet for early stage stuff to get relationships with the founders to learn more about spaces because we can offer the founders access to NBC host or Bloomberg's top bureau chiefs or stuff like that. We'll always get a little…”

“NBC didn't want me for late night because the movies didn't work and I wasn't hot, you know. And so, they wanted other people, and they were gonna give it to someone else, and then I remember Lorne just stepping in, kind of, and saying, look, I know, he's like…”

“In your, I think in your first year on late night, you brought in like, Almost two hundred million dollars in revenue for NBC.”

“I just think, I feel like I could do this for the rest of my life. As long as NBC and the audience would, will have me, I will.”

“And I thought it was like, well, why would they just give the money to a public company versus going directly to the creators themselves? The top, top 50 creators in the world, right? Speak different languages and saying, we're going to give you all access rig…”

“We had our airship company filming the Super Bowl for NBC, but they made it very clear that Super Bowl advertising is the most expensive in the world, and that they couldn't put their cameras up onto the Fly Virgin Atlantic logo on the side of the balloon. So …”

“Disney's going to have its own thing, and NBC's going to have its own thing, and you're going to end up with like 45 apps on your device, and that also seems very unstable.”

“Back in those days, it was like 210,000 dollars for a half hour of shows.”

“Back in those days, Guy, we were getting like, 40% of the audience was watching.”

“So we helped rebuild Economist and projects for the NBC where you know, they pay upwards of a million dollars just on the DevOps infrastructure.”

“I was on the Today Show for about 12 years, 15 years, and honestly, being a beauty expert on the Today Show, probably put me on the map.”

“And then we raised a series of funding, funding rounds of up to about sixty million dollars and went public in 1999 for another 60 something million, so about a hundred and thirty million, including a few million of what's called NBC Peacock money.”

“So you have WPP, which is the world's largest agency holding company bidding on behalf of thousands of advertisers. They'll bid through our platform on publishers such as Wall Street Journal, eBay, Spotify, NBC even the most premium brands in the business.”

“We're the only partner that I think that, that they don't have sort of control over. That's in there up front. We're actually built in as the mobile portal in there up front.”

“As it turns out, it sold over a million albums overnight, and then the people at CBS and NBC and ABC, they, well, you know, all of a sudden they wanted to have lunch.”

“Back in those days, it was like 210,000 dollars for a half hour of shows.”

“Back in those days, Guy, we were getting like 40% of the audience was watching.”

“No, not at, NBC didn't get a piece at all.”

“Let's take the seven billion dollars of media rights for NFL. That's all a hundred percent incremental margins that there's no cost of that, right? The ESPN signs a check, CBS or NBC signed a check and that's it. There's no cost to it. So the scalability of th…”

“Even the largest media companies like a CBS or NBC or Disney or firms like that, they don't have enough of the exact people that that brand advertiser wants to see or hit. And so they need to go off of their owned and operated properties.”

“Essentially, we are the ones who have all the opportunity in the world to build the next NBC, to build the next Scripts. And, you know, those are multi-billion dollar businesses.”