Sony Confirms Talks With NBC

Sony Corp. has confirmed that company executives met with their counterparts from General Electric’s NBC network, following a published report that the media companies were contemplating a global alliance.

NBC has been secretly negotiating with Japan’s Sony Corp. to forge a worldwide relationship that would mean potentially enormous revenue for both companies, according to an article in the latest issue of the New Yorker magazine.

The Sony representative declined to comment directly on a possible worldwide agreement, saying: “Sony regularly meets with all the U.S. broadcasters, and NBC is no exception.” She added that executives from NBC and Sony met in Tokyo last month.