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Monthly Archives : May 2008

Angry Anchor Clips a Hit on Web

On air freakouts by TV news anchors are very popular on the Web, with sites showing clips of recent rants by anchors Bill O’Reilly of Fox News Channel and Sue Simmons of WNBC-TV, New York, drawing hundreds of thousands of…

VH1 Stars Tell Why Fans Watch

The stars of VH1’s successful reality series talk about why the shows are popular—and other subjects–in a roundtable interview in USA Today. Adrianne Curry of “My Fair Brady” says reality fans “have no life,” but Tiffany (New York) Pollard of…

CBS to Air Movies to Small Audience

CBS has dug up two movies shot years ago but never shown and plans to air them during the next three Saturday nights, when ratings are the lowest of the week, Daily Variety reports. “Vinegar Hill,” starring Mary Louise-Parker, was…

ABC to Improve Online Video Player

ABC will improve its online video player for its Internet audience by this fall, the Hollywood Reporter says. ABC, whose Web site was the most popular among the major networks last month, will add features such as closed captioning and…

New Netflix Player Gets High Marks

The new set top box that delivers movies over the Internet is easy to hook up and delivers at TV-quality picture, according to a review in the New York Times, which gave the new offering by Netflix and Roku a…

Digital Ads Getting Outsourced

More Web ads are being produced by little-known overseas businesses, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ads for marketers including General Motors Microsoft and Bank of America are being made by companies like avVenta Worldwide which has employees in Costa Rica,…

Univision Starts VOD Without Televisa

Spanish-language network Univision in January will start offering video-on-demand programming, though without popular content from Televisa, Daily Variety reports. Univision and Televisa have been in a legal battle, with Televisa wanting out of its contract with Univision, the newspaper says….

HDTV Supply May Leapfrog Demand

Are the world’s largest high-definition television makers one step behind demand? That’s what some industry analysts are asking after companies including Sony and LG Electronics announced plans for new liquid-crystal display production lines, even as worldwide LCD growth shows signs…

CBS Creates College Web Net

CBS College Sports Network is creating a vertical advertising network that will offer display ads and video commercials on NCAA.com, the collegiate sections of CBSSports.com and on the official athletic sites of 215 colleges, Mediaweek reports. The sites had more…

Colorful Career: Gray Ainsworth

The player: Gray Ainsworth, senior VP of operations for Deluxe Digital Media The play: Mr. Ainsworth runs the North American digital-asset arm of film print-maker and post-production house Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, which was founded in 1915 by Fox Film…