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Title: Senior VP, international, A&E Television Networks Date of birth: Oct. 3, 1974 Place of birth: Brooklyn, N.Y. Big break: Getting into Harvard, which put him “around very smart people from so early on, folks with a real clear idea…
The player: Kip McClanahan, CEO of ON Networks, a new-media production and distribution shop in Austin, Texas. The play: ON Networks is part of a crop of emerging companies producing and licensing short series for new venues such as the…
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In the Hollywood labor talks that start this week, writers and producers have begun to posture. So it’s not too soon to offer some advice on how to avoid a mutually destructive confrontation. It seems inevitable that the issue that…
Whatever the future of captioned viewing in the digital age—and kudos to TelevisionWeek for casting its considerable spotlight on the issue, with the welfare of millions of members of an invisible minority in the balance—I can only hope the door…
Natalie Jacobson is a rare TV news creature in so many ways. For that matter, she is a bit out of the norm as a Baby Boomer whose career history is more like Baby Boomers’ parents were the last to…
“Millions of people in the U.S. have had access to mobile video for some time, but overall, it hasn’t been all that much fun. Scrolling down text lists of content, waiting for streaming and download delays, and then you have…
Sony Pictures Entertainment is rebranding its Grouper video-sharing Web site as Crackle, seeking to draw aspirational producers who want access to the company’s Hollywood production resources. Sony purchased Grouper in August 2006 to get a foothold in the video-sharing craze…
HD Net co-founder Mark Cuban, who has owned the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks since January 2000, confirmed to the Chicago Tribune last week that he submitted his application to Major League Baseball to purchase the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field from…