NBC Universal’s Online Problem (GE)

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Based on the Comscore January traffic numbers that followed unique visitors to web properties, NBC Universal has a long way to go to catch most of its competition. No one would think that the GE division would have anywhere close to the online presence of TimeWarner/AOL (TWX) which had 117.2 million unique visitors in January. Most investors would assume that Fox Interactive (NWS) would be well ahead because the numbers include MySpace. The Fox figure for January was 74.8 million unique visitors.

But a number of other media company sites are ahead of NBC which had 15 million unique visitors in January. ESPN had 16.2 million unique visitors. The EW Scripps websites had 17.6 million, and that is not a very big operation. Gannett (GCI) had 18.7 million. CBS (CBS) had 22.6 million, Disney (DIS) 25 million, and Viacom (VIA) 37.3 million.

With a movie studio and a TV network, the low NBCUniversal web numbers are a bit hard to understand. But, maybe that is why the unit has a new CEO.

Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does own securites in companies that he writes about.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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