Pretty As A Peacock; The Almost Broadcasting Company

In an unusual alignment of the moon (currently full) and the rest of the univers(al), it looks like GE and Vivendi have agreed on how much ($5.8 billion) NBCU is worth, paving the way for the media giant’s sale to Comcastic.

Over at the Meatball network, the move backward toward it’s first incarnation, the Almost Broadcasting Company, continues with the confirmation that Mike Shaw, the President of Sales and Marketing will be stepping down from his current role at the end of the year.

As both these events occurred on the same day, I should be saying that media divergence continues, but the first instance is a big fish eating a little fish and the second instance is just what happens when you have a “mature” business. (Just read that as “past it’s prime.”)