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The new year for media and entertainment companies could be more about making up for past excesses than about building for the future.“We’re still in the hangover stage,” conceded a leading Wall Street deal-maker. “But everyone will be ready for…
Representatives of the cable TV and consumer electronics industries have announced an agreement that they say will clear the way for the manufacture of TV sets capable of receiving digital TV signals from cable systems without the need for a…
What goes around doesn’t just come around. It comes around and slaps you in the kisser. Or conks you right on the head. For years, TV critics and other pseudo-sophisticates complained about all the gooey, saccharine, schmaltzy mush that networks…
When Belo-owned WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C.’s NBC affiliate, lost both its regular and backup power during an ice storm that left 1 million homes in the state dark in early December, the station devised an innovative solution to get back on…
Former UPN President Dean Valentine is among the U.S. investors expected to buy 49.9 percent of the Jim Henson Co. The German media company EM.TV, which bought the Jim Henson Co. and rights to the Muppets in February 2000 for…
Title: senior VP, marketing, ICTVBackground: Mr. Forman joined ICTV in early November after serving as a consultant to the interactive TV company for about two years. He oversees the product planning and marketing for the company and HeadendWare, a centralized…
Independent Film Channel plans a video-on-demand and subscription VOD service for cable operators starting in the first quarter of 2003. The service has been tested over the past year with its parent company, Cablevision. IFC on Demand will include films…
And the Emmy for most excellent feud goes to … the TV academies that dispense the Emmys. The decades-long cool war between the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, headquartered in New York with 18 chapters scattered throughout the…
Personal video recorders are not a threat to Television As We Know It; rather, they represent a significant new opportunity for advertisers and ad-supported television.That was the consensus of a recent panel that looked ahead to the PVR-influenced TV world…
Phillip Swann Text: What a year. Technology stocks dropped faster than Mike Tyson did in the Lennox Lewis fight. TiVo, the digital video recorder service, generated more news stories than subscribers. And Gemstar founder Henry Yuen discovered he could read…