Jeffrey Adam Zucker is an American media executive. He previously served as president and CEO of NBCUniversal. In November 2012, Zucker was picked to take over as the president of CNN Worldwide in January 2013 after Jim Walton’s tenure. Zucker was born into a Jewish family in Homestead, Florida, near Miami, on April 9, 1965.
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Jeffrey Adam Zucker is an American media executive. He previously served as president and CEO of NBCUniversal. In November 2012, Zucker was picked to take over as the president of CNN Worldwide in January 2013 after Jim Walton’s tenure. Zucker was born into a Jewish family in Homestead, Florida, near Miami, on April 9, 1965. He was a captain of the North Miami Senior High School tennis team, editor of the school paper, and a teenage freelance reporter for The Miami Herald. Zucker graduated from Harvard in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts in American history. When he was not admitted to Harvard Law School, he took a job at NBC in 1986 to research information for its coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. In 1989, he was a field producer for Today, and at 26 he became its executive producer in 1992. He is credited with managing the show during its most successful years and launching it into its 16-years of ratings dominance.
In December 2003, Zucker became president of NBC’s Entertainment, News & Cable Group as well. In 2010, in response to a public controversy over the network’s reported rescheduling of late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, Los Angeles Times reporters wrote that Zucker’s tenure had led to spectacular fall by the country’s premier television network. Under Zucker, NBC fell from being the number one rated network to the lowest rated of the broadcast networks and was occasionally beaten in ratings by the more popular cable channels on some popular channels. The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that there has been a single topic of discussion: How does Jeff Zucker keep rising fortunes of NBC falling and rising and falling?… Many in the Hollywood community have always regarded him as one of the top three men in the world.
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