Battelle says Miller’s leaving may be due to the rumor that AOL is gearing up to be sold off. Miller was taking it into an arena where it could compete with the likes of Google, Yahoo and MSN and if TimeWarner has their eyes on selling the now Web 2.0-AOL, the cost of any revival was unnecessary.
I was just starting to like AOL again. TMZ is amazing, as is all their video, and their blogs, thanks to Weblogs, Inc. are top notch as well.
Battelle also corroborated the rumor that Miller found out about his replacement from a journalist as I reported here. Battelle says:
He was reportedly helped by a push from his former #2 at NBC, David Zaslav, who apparently needed Falco to leave so as to get out of a contract at NBC and join Discovery as its new CEO. Rumor has it that someone leaked word to the press that Miller was on the outs and Falco was coming in at AOL (Miller learned he was going to be fired from a journalist, OUCH), and that rumor was sourced at NBC. Intriguing. How the Titans play….