Comcast Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke will succeed Jeff Zucker as the new CEO of NBC Universal later this year, when Comcast takes control of the broadcaster.
Comcast Corp. and General Electric Co., which currently owns NBC, said Sunday that Burke will work with Zucker during the transition. Zucker, who has spent his entire career at NBC, said last week that he would be stepping down after the change in control, telling employees in an e-mail that he understood the new owners would want to have one of their own at the helm.
Burke inherits a struggling fourth-place network in need of change. The network’s news division and late-night programming have remained strong but its prime-time lineup has weakened since its 1990s dominance in the “Must-See TV” era of comedy hits “Friends” and “Seinfeld.”
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