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Political candidates reached out to Hispanic voters in greater numbers during the recent mid-term elections, spending more than $16 million on Spanish-language TV advertising, according to a report by Adam Segal, director of the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins…
Title: President and general counsel, California Cable & Telecommunications Association, and founding director, Walter Kaitz FoundationBackground: Mr. Kaitz is a longtime cable executive and a second-generation industry veteran. He has been in the cable television business since the 1960s. His…
“Comcast will be able to largely determine America’s digital destiny. That’s why we encourage everyone-in and out of the industry-to fight for an open and democratic cable broadband system.”Jeff Chester, executive director, Center for Digital Democracy“Time will tell. Mega-mergers like…
David Barrett, who heads the company that has the most ABC affiliates in the country, has a message for the network: Slash your prime-time schedule from 22 hours a week to 15 so his stations can make some decent money.“I…
Third-quarter network TV ad spending was up 8 percent over the same quarter a year ago, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Overall advertising spending for all media was up 3.8 percent for the same period, with eight of…
Fox Broadcasting will have an affiliate in the Portland-Auburn-Waterville, Maine, market for the first time since October 2001 when Toledo, Ohio-based Corporate Media Group acquires WPMX-TV from Paxson Communications in the first quarter of 2003. Max Media of Virginia Beach,…
Fox will air the second edition of reality hit “American Idol” on Tuesday and Wednesday nights starting in January. The 16-week run kicks off with a 90-minute episode from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, followed the next…
What it is: Venaca S3, a media asset-management system from Venaca in New York.S3, which stands for “single source solution,” is designed to handle the entire asset-management process, from ingest to storage to transcoding to play-out. It replaces the labor-…
AOL Time Warner and The Walt Disney Co. have a lot in common as they struggle to redefine the value proposition of their core AOL and ABC brands, respectively, for consumers and advertisers who are inundated with choice.But their contrasting…
Digital cable networks have proven themselves.At least that’s the consensus among cable TV executives. Digital channels spun off from a parent network have achieved sizable distribution, as have several unique digital networks that stand on their own, such as MuchMusic…