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Mar 11 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: NBC Not for Sale, Hulu Launches...

-GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt says you can ignore those rumors about a possible sale of NBC Universal, because it ain't gonna happen. [NYT]

-Speaking of NBC, Hulu, its video-on-the-web joint venture with Fox, launches tomorrow. [Reuters]

-The New York Times broke the story of Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal on its website, which promptly crashed under a Drudge-enabled traffic surge. [Huffpo]

-CNBC was the first cable news network to air the Spitzer news, beating CNN, Fox and MSNBC. [TV Newser]

-Was Hillary Clinton's "3 a.m." ad really about race, not experience? [NYT]

-Got 250 bucks? Then you can buy a 30-second spot on Fox Business. [Dealbreaker]. □


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