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The player: John Wilson, senior VP and chief television programming executive, PBS The play: Mr. Wilson helped lead PBS’ progress from launching its first high-definition channel in March 2004 to ensuring that all programming sent by PBS to its 356…
U.S. flat-screen television buyers say size doesn’t matter much, according to a survey released this week. Of course, they may be lying. About one in three consumers whose annual income is between $25,000 and $100,000 said picture quality was the…
In a nod to the ever-shortening attention span of the American public, multichannel service operators have gone from pitching how many linear high-definition channels they can offer each household to crowing about how many HD programs that single household can…
Of 797 calls to the Federal Communications Commission helpline, only 23 came from residents of the Wilmington, N.C., area who were unaware that the digital TV transition in their market was going to happen Sept. 8, five months ahead of…
Viewers can pick two of the finalists for the second season of Bravo’s model competition series “Make Me a Supermodel.” One male and one female finalist will be chosen by fans to join the cast of the series. Voting starts…
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin continues to clean up when it comes to online video views. Of the top 100 most-viewed videos for the week ending Sept. 9, across the 20 Web video sites that research firm TubeMogul tracks,…
Burger King will present 10 exclusive digital shorts from “Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy” at youtube.com/bk, sethcomedy.com and targeted sites across the Google content network. The first two shorts debut today, with the rest of the shorts to be…
Showtime Networks and producer-writer-actor Carl Reiner will be honored at the Paley Center for Media’s annual gala. Proceeds from the event, to be held Dec. 11 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Century City, Calif., will benefit the Paley…
The CW has promoted Rob Tuck to executive vice president of national sales. He will be responsible for the network’s sales and advertising efforts for prime time as well as the Web site CWtv.com. Mr. Tuck also will oversee integrated…