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= June 8 =

Presidents of NBC Universal Television Group
In the succession box for Jeff Zucker, it says that his successor as President of NBC Universal Television Group is unknown. I tried to find out on this to add the information, but, unfortunately, I was unable to find a reliable source on that issue, in fact. Can anybody help out? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Regards--Hildeoc (talk) 20:10, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * -- 2603:6081:1C00:1187:EC40:B2AE:BE0E:8875 (talk) 20:55, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
 * @2603:6081:1C00:1187:EC40:B2AE:BE0E:8875: Thanks, but I'm actually asking who took over the above position (President of NBC Universal Television Group) from Zucker in 2007 …--Hildeoc (talk) 21:19, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

I used the Wayback Machine to find some a few archived links that may provide a clue: That day, July 5, 2007, was a few months after Zucker was promoted to CEO of the entire company. There is no President of NBC Universal Television Group listed there, but there are still presidents for the individual divisions such as NBC News (Steve Capus), NBC Universal Sports and Olympics (Dick Ebersol), and NBC Universal Television Stations and Network Operations (Jay Ireland). My only conclusion was that the position of President of NBC Universal Television Group was eliminated, and thus its responsibilities was added to Zucker's CEO job. I was also looking at this. It was archived after the acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast and Steve Burke is the CEO. On the left side of the page is a list of all the NBC Universal businesses, and there is no "NBC Universal Television Group" is listed per se. This, with the Executive Team listed in the middle of the page, is before NBCUniversal Television Group was reorganized into NBCUniversal Television and Streaming in January 2019. Again, no separate head of NBCUniversal Television Group per se, but there is Mark Lazarus as Chairman of NBC Broadcasting and Sports, Andrew Lack as Chairman of NBC News, among others. That is the current live version on nbcuniversal.com, with Mark Lazarus now as the chairman of NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. See also NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, where is says that he was promoted to that position in April 2020. Hope this helps. I'll leave it to you decide what the best course of action would be with this. Ideally, it would be better to actually find a reliable source that explicitly explains how the responsibilities of the NBC Universal executives changed when Zucker was promoted in 2007, but I also having trouble finding that. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:32, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * https://www.nbcuniversal.com/leadership
 * Thank you very much. Any other ideas here?--Hildeoc (talk) 21:33, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
 * As I said, we just need a better source. Otherwise for now, using Template:Better source needed, it would have to be this edit. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:41, 10 June 2021 (UTC)