TW would consider NBC acquisition

June 09, 2008 After joking that it depends on which network they were talking about, he acknowledged that NBC has been the subject of market chatter and added, "We'd have to look at that if and when it came up." Bewkes suggested that cable networks, the key driver of growth at NBC Universal of late, were the GE entertainment arm's core media businesses, signaling that he might not be ready to buy all of NBC Uni.

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