What the zuck? Hard to believe, but Jeff Zucker is finally heading out at NBC. Out after the Leno-Conan-Leno
Tonight Showdebacle. The Leno prime time debacle. The NBC-ratings-in-the-toilet debacle(s).
And none of that did it. The Comcast takeover finally did it.
Zucker told his troops Friday that he's gone as of deal-closing for Comcast to acquire the NBC Universal media empire.
Here is continually updated reporting from Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke, who has minced no words over the years in wondering how this continual zuck-up could keep his job (speaking aloud what most reporters covering the media only whispered among themselves).
Now that the news is in, the only thing left is the spin. And there will be plenty of that in media circles -- conveniently, for Zucker, over the weekend when nobody's paying attention.
The only other place he could have buried the news deeper was on Jay Leno's 10 p.m. Tonight Show.
NOTE: More bury-the-lede Friday shakeups, this one at CNN. Click here for more.