Dialogue: Zucker on Silverman, Murdoch, movies

July 31, 2007 Zucker discussed his tenure to date with The Hollywood Reporter digital media editor Andrew Wallenstein, including the hiring of Ben Silverman, his first exposure to the movie business and the potential threat posed by Rupert Murdoch in financial news. Jeff Zucker: I think what's happened is we've used the first few months to put our team in place, from ensuring that (Universal Studios president and COO) Ron Meyer will be with us for the next five years to creating a very strong and new international organization to consolidating our non-NBC properties under (Universal Television Group president and COO) Jeff Gaspin. What we try to do is put great executives and managers into places that are priorities for us whether they've worked in those areas before.

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