The player: Bob Wilson, senior VP of programming at Cox Communications The play: Mr. Wilson has led closely held Cox Communications’ efforts to compete with satellite operators such as DirecTV by boosting high-definition programming options with both linear channels and…
CBS’ decision to let other programming providers show March Madness games and highlights may not seem so mad after all. CBS, which will broadcast the NCAA basketball tournament from today’s first round through the national championship game on April 7,…
Makers of next-generation DVD players may be thanking the Old World. While analysts debate whether Sony’s Blu-ray victory over Toshiba’s HD DVD format in the high-definition disc player war will unleash a torrent of U.S. customers who’d been waiting on…
HD programming picks for March 20-26: “Being John Malkovich,” “Warren Miller’s Impact,” “Tequila Sunrise” “Being John Malkovich” (Showtime). Friday, March 21, 2:30 p.m. John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and Catherine Keener get downright existential by exploring a portal into the mind…
DirecTV, Dish Say Satellite Setbacks Won’t Dim HD Plans U.S. satellite television leaders DirecTV and Dish Network both said recent satellite-launch setbacks won’t hurt their plans for high-definition channel expansion. DirecTV’s newest satellite, which would expand its national HD channel…
Re-engineering Pods and Remaking Classic Stories
Toshiba Corp. yesterday said fiscal 2007 earnings will be 31% less than previously forecast because of the discontinuation of its HD DVD next-generation disc-player format. Earnings for the year ending March 31 will be 125 billion yen ($1.26 billion), less…
Jane Root, formerly general manager of Discovery Channel, may be considered a replacement for Carolyn Strauss as president of HBO Entertainment, the Hollywood Reporter says. As former controller of BBC 2, Root worked with HBO to produce the series “Rome,”…
CBS Interactive Chief Marketing Officer Patrick Keane said at a conference yesterday that content producers need to create a ratings system that combines television and online video audiences, MediaPost reports. Such a system would provide media buyers a simpler and…
The Federal Communications Commission will extend by four years a deadline for U.S. satellite-television services DirecTV and Dish Networks to broadcast all local channels in high definition, Multichannel News reports. Dish and DirecTV will have until 2013, or four years…