Insider reports show that GE is no different.

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Although this is the first year that GE has showed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) it sounds like the company made quite the impression at the annual tech-fest that took place in Las Vegas last week.

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And a number of exhibitors who sat last year's show out, such as GE Appliances, were back in force.

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Take Scrubs, a show the General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people )-owned network opted to dump after seven seasons.

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Though the stoppage over new media compensation will continue indefinitely, a handful of those shows, including General Electric -owned (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as Walt Disney-owned (nyse: DIS - news - people )ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, will return to the screen without writers on Jan. 2.

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" Once Mr. Carson announced plans to retire from "The Tonight Show, " he joked in 1991: "GE already sold my parking spot to Fotomat.

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GE, for example, hired Thomson Reuters, an information firm, to show employees the cost of different services.

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Several years ago, CBS ordered up Ed, a quirky drama created by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants production company, but ended up passing on it and handing the show over to General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, where it ran for four seasons.

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Donald Trump 's success with The Apprentice set the trend in motion, and this week this wildly popular show has its finale on General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC network.

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