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A year after the eclectic Philly ensemble became Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's house band, it has a new strategy. Drummer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson discusses the network salary, late-night jams, and less touring.

NBC has got quite a mountain to climb after the disastrous Jay Leno Show experiment. But getting consumers to give a second chance to a product they've stopped using is one of the biggest challenges in marketing.

NBC executives appear ready to move Jay Leno back to late night TV. The Leno disaster, which will cost the network tens of millions of dollars, was avoidable, and will likely be discussed in business schools for decades to come.

Is a deal with Satan the kind of thing you're required to disclose in a proxy statement? If so, I'll be very curious to see the one filed after Comcast (CMCSA) completes its takeover of NBC Universal (GE). It's hard to imagine what else could account for the continuing employment of Jeff Zucker as...

After two days at the 140 Characters Conference in Manhattan, it was clear that NBC's Today Show news anchor Ann Curry won the respect of the crowd with her message of "truth" and "credibility" in journalism. People at the Twitter conference are hungry for more coverage of hard news, such as the...

I'm here at the 140 Characters Conference at New World Stages in Manhattan, where the topic is Twitter, Twitter, Twitter and more Twitter. Twitter! I'm virtually certain that I'm the only person in the room whose name tag doesn't have his Twitter user name on it. That's because -- shhhh! -- I'm...

Proving you don't have to be a celebrity to get half-a-million Twitter followers, Sockington the cat has more than 545,000 wanting to know what's new. It's not just people who want to hear about his latest adventures. Many of Sockington's followers are animals themselves. This fame didn't happen...