NBC might be getting ready to compete with its own affiliate online

Interesting: Max Slocum talks to the folks at NBC affiliate WHDH and reports they have nothing to do with the brand-new local news site that NBC is building for Boston and, in fact, have no intentions of shutting down their existing whdh.com. Slocum adds NBC officials declined to comment.

You might recall there's little love lost between NBC and Channel 7 - the former threatened to pull the latter's affiliation when it seemed it wouldn't run Jay Leno's 10 p.m. show.

nbcboston.com is registered to General Electric, i.e., NBC, although there's no site there yet.