Falco Watch: Will he ever get to run his own company?

With rumored high profile defections, we have to start asking the questions and speculate and all that other good sh*t that comes with writing about media and its overpaid big shots. So today we ask and wonder and speculate about the whole Randy Falco thingy. If Mr. Falco does leave from under the Zucker regime to join AOL, what exactly will he be doing there. He is said to have always wanted to call his own shots, but unless current AOL boss Jon Miller is packing up his office, Mr. Falco won't really be calling his own shots. Also, if when Jeff Zucker takes control of NBC Universal wouldn't he have pulled Mr. Falco right up to still be his number two as Prexy and COO of the mother ship? We made a call into NBCU HQ in an effort to reach Randy (not that we thought we actually could have spoken to him) but of course, not to our surprise, we got stuck with an assistant who said that she had no idea what we were talking about. And you know what we kinda believe her because usually executive assistants are so clueless as to what's going on around them outside of answering phones, getting coffee etc. Anyway if Randy Falco does step off to go join AOL, we're thinking that Jeff Zucker wouldn't bother replacing him at all. Also we think Falco may be joining AOL to be in waiting for when the Bewkes era begins, possibly being pulled in to help run the world's biggest media company, and even then he would still be under the balls of someone else. OK so we're looking too far ahead but we call it as we see it. Falco News Coverage [Yahoo! News]