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Daily Archives : Mar 11, 2008

Cable Ad Effort Isn’t Joint Venture

A Comcast-led group created to provide a standard format for interactive advertising across the largest cable companies isn’t a joint venture, as previously reported, Multichannel News reports, citing a cable executive it didn’t identify. The so-called Project Canoe is “more…

ESPN Deportes Adds 1M L.A. Subs

ESPN Deportes will be available Time Warner Cable’s Los Angeles homes, adding as many as 1 million customers to the Spanish-language sports network’s total, Multichannel News reports. ESPN Deportes will be available to 6 million households, three quarters of which…

‘Naked City’ Creator Wald Dies at 90

Malvin Wald, who co-wrote the 1948 crime film “The Naked City,” died in Sherman Oaks, Calif., at age 90, the New York Times reports. The film, Oscar-nominated for its screenwriting, was the basis for a television spinoff that ran from…