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“Access Hollywood,” fully utilizing the clout of parent NBC, is extending its brand with projects on network TV, cable, local stations, Telemundo, the Internet and radio and in print.On the network side plans are in the works for more network…
As I understand it, here is where things stand:No media conglomerate may own two television networks and no newspaper may own a TV station in the same city (unless it already owned it before this rule was written); a network…
After four years of offering its enhanced television workshop, the American Film Institute expects the fifth annual workshop to translate beyond the classroom into the actual production of interactive TV prototypes that finally make it to air. AFI launched this…
This week we welcome TV prognosticator Phillip and his weekly column, The New Television, to the pages of Electronic Media. Phil is a foremost expert on interactive TV and brings to our technology page a unique insight that I’m convinced…
TiVo, which has burned so much cash it could be accused of financial pyromania, said last week it will actually break even during the final quarter of 2002. In an interview with Reuters, TiVo CEO Mike Ramsay sounded more confident…
Advertising & AgenciesThomas Hallgren to creative director, Nostrum Advertising, Long Beach, Calif., from free-lance creative director.BroadcastingDon Vesely to local sales manager, WMTV, Madison, Wis., from account executive.Andrea Cautela to director of sales and marketing, Syndicated Network Television Association, from managing…
* The photo accompanying “NATPE rebuts EM story” (EM, Sept. 30) was of the NATPE exhibition floor in 2001.* In “TV development watch” (EM, Sept. 30), the telephone number for TVtracker .com is (323) 962-5000.* In “PBS big winner at…
Title: Senior VP of production for television, MGMBackground: Mr. Hickman has been with MGM for eight years.The evolution of digital dailies: “Part of [my] responsibility has to do with evaluating new technology and how it makes sense for us. There…
WCVB-TV, the Hearst-Argyle-owned ABC affiliate in Boston, launched a “cyber-philanthropist” initiative Sept. 24 that gets viewers and sponsors involved with local nonprofits via the Internet.In the CommonWealth 5 section of theBoston Channel.com, viewers can sign up to donate their time,…
It’s two weeks into the new TV season and “Danger Ahead” signs have popped up at several broadcast networks.ABC’s trio of new dramas, NBC’s freshman “In-Laws” comedy and a pair of 9 p.m. dramas on UPN are the potential potholes…