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President Bush is naming C-Span President-CEO Brian P. Lamb as one of eight recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mr. Lamb joins economist Gary S. Becker, Cuban activist and prisoner Oscar Elias Biscet, geneticist Francis S. Collins, civil rights…
Monday’s test launch of the Hulu video site from NBC and Fox is the latest evidence that broadcast and cable networks have gotten religion when it comes to Web video, but Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire said he still hasn’t seen…
Deborah Blackwell, general manager of SoapNet, plans to leave the network early next year. Ms. Blackwell will not be replaced. The channel’s operations will be managed by Brian Frons, president of daytime for the Disney-ABC Television Group. Ms. Blackwell will…
As part of his presidential campaign Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is promising to make sure that any Federal Communications Commission members he appoints will ensure that Internet service providers can’t favor some content providers over others by providing them faster…
Media General is exploring the possible sale of five TV stations in midsized and smaller Southeastern markets. Marshall N. Morton, president and CEO of the Richmond, Va.,-based multimedia group, said in Monday’s announcement that “any sales would enable Media General…
Worldwide Pants, late-night funnyman David Letterman’s 14-year-old production company, is getting serious in its first documentary, a film about five American teens running for public office in several states. “Our company believes that creativity comes in all forms, and we’re…
Pat Mitchell, president-CEO of the Paley Center for Media, will receive the Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and Directors’ Chair Award Dec. 7 at the Caucus’ 25th annual black-tie gala. Veteran talk show host and television producer Byron Allen will…
Video-centric social media company Vitrue closed its Series B round of financing session with $10 million, with a majority of the funding coming from early-stage venture capital firm Dace Ventures. Vitrue creates branded sites enabling its customers to review and…
The color of the wall is an immediate clue to news mode in the atrium-like MSNBC studio area in the new NBC News headquarters, built to house the cable news network, the WNBC-TV local news and NBC News operations in…