EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell didn’t mince words about the “bad dream” that was 2020, but touted the success of Peacock and laid out a string of streaming stats in a holiday-season memo to employees.In his December business update (read it below), Shell predicted that in a few years employees would look back and think of the year and the coronavirus pandemic as “as a strange and just plain awful bad dream.” Covid-19 “extremely impacted” every part of NBCU, Shell wrote. (The executive, who succeeded Steve Burke as CEO in January, did not make note of his own tangle with the virus last March when he tested positive before recovering.)Despite everything, there have been bright spots during the pandemic, Shell maintained.
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