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What it is: APS from JacobsRimell, a London-based software company. APS is a service-fulfillment platform designed to ease the provisioning of new technology services for cable operators.What it does: APS allows operators and customers to provision and activate new services…
Title: Chairman and CEO, Marketron InternationalBackground: Mr. Jackson founded Marketron International in 1995 in anticipation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and the ensuing consolidation in the broadcast business. “Stations would need more control over their commercial inventory and ways to…
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Nicholas Steele, the director of “Sex Spell” and “Whispering Hearts,” says that high-definition TV could be the best thing to happen to the adult industry since Viagra.“When you’re dealing with skin tones and bodies and things like that, you want…
Friday, Dec. 6 Millennium cuts staff Some 10 people at various levels of Millennium Sales & Marketing, the largest of Katz Television Group’s three TV divisions, lost their jobs this week in a restructuring that hit hardest in New York,…
Thursday, Dec. 5 Legendary ABC News Chairman Roone Arledge dies ABC News Chairman Roone Arledge, who built powerhouse star-filled and ground-breaking sports and news divisions for ABC, died Thursday afternoon after a long battle with cancer and other health complications….
Wednesday, Dec. 4 FCC Chairman Powell to hold hearings on media ownership Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell announced late today that the agency will hold a field hearing on its media ownership regulations sometime in February in Richmond, Va….
Tuesday, Dec. 3 ‘Rob Nelson Show’ staffers let go Staff members at Twentieth’s struggling rookie strip “The Rob Nelson Show” have been informed they are being let go while the series remains in hiatus, sources tell ELECTRONIC MEDIA. That move…
BroadcastingMichael Crescenzo to manager, New York West, Viacom station Sales, from account executive.Annie Lake to promotion coordinator and producer, KSEE-TV, Fresno, Calif., from recent graduate, University of Cincinnati.Deron Triff to VP, digital ventures, PBS, from senior director, digital content strategy…
Monday, Dec. 2 Study recommends government should require digital TV tuners A General Accounting Office study released today recommends that the federal government require all new TV sets to include cable-ready digital TV tuners to help spur the rollout of…