The Associated Press is reporting that NBC Sports has made a deal to move its longtime home at 30 Rockefeller Plaza to Stamford, Conn., to take advantage of state tax incentives there. The move out of the network’s flagship headquarters would take the division 35 miles away to Connecticut, which is dialing up an economic development plan that includes luring companies away from their spendy and cramped Manhattan real estate. The AP reported that a government official with knowledge of the deal said details about the tax credits still have to be worked out between the legislature and NBC, but the city is already home to syndicated NBCUniversal shows Maury, The Jerry Springer Show and The Steve Wilkos Show and is the headquarters of NBC Sports Group sibling Versus.






Karma perhaps? The 30 Rock episode that mocked Connecticut’s film incentive program last year was hysterical. But this tax incentive nonsense has to stop. States are waging war with one another and spending billions for handouts to producers when schools are being closed and police and firefighters are being laid off.
Stamford (an old CT Indian word for “boring accountant”) has all the fun of those unending nightmare traffic jams on I-95 without all that annoying sexiness of midtown Manhattan.
Jerry Springer tapes in Conn? That’s more shocking than discovering my sister is sleeping with my stripper wife!
Ha!
Yep. Springer and Wilkos were wooed away from Chicago by Stamford 2 or so yrs ago. The studio they tape at is directly next to the parish residence & office for the city’s cathedral – it’s kind of a bummer for the religious folks.
Now during the next election the govenor can claim he “created” these jobs. No you didn’t, you stole them from New York who will issue credits to steal jobs from somewhere else. The public gets screwed so someone can take credit for nothing.
This comes as no surprise. Connecticut is a juggernaut in the New England entertainment industry.
LIVE FROM CT. ITS SATURDAY NIGHT!
As someone who did this commute for years before regaining sanity, I have this message to the staff: THAT’S GOTTA HURT.
Right next to ESPN?
Going to hang out with ESPN?
This will make the 99% protesters very unhappy, THEY MUST BE TAXED!!
No wonder Jeffrey was sitting with Michelle Obama at the State of the Union, he was asking for tax advice on how large corporations can pay less. Nice work!
And not too far away from WWE…now Stamford can be classified as an official three-ring round the top circus town. Springer, NBC Sports and the WWE, with Maury thrown in for good measure.
Is this a way to get around the NABET union?
Connecticut right here!