Jeff Zucker to leave NBC By Nikky Raney

Jeff Zucker, NBC Universal CEO, has said he will be leaving NBC once Comcast takes control of the company later on this year.

MSNBC reports that Zucker, 45,announced his departure in an e-mail he sent out Friday, September 24; where he wrote, "It has been a great run and I've been incredibly fortunate."

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Last December Comcast agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal from General Electric Co. Steve Burke, Comcast's chief operating officer, may take Zucker's place.

Zucker is not the only one who has recently announced that he is departing from his station. CNN fired Jon Klein, head of CNN's U.S. network, and Steve Wadsworth announced his resignation as head of Walt Disney Co.'s interactive media group.

The Associated Press writes more about the prominence Zucker had as apart and includes more of the e-mail where Zucker reminisces on his first day working at NBC in August 1986:

"When I step back and think about what we've been through, I feel nothing but pride and joy. It has been a great run and I've been incredibly fortunate."