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Cable rate hearings setWashington-The Senate communications subcommittee has slated oversight hearings Wednesday to consider cable TV rate hikes and other industry issues. The Consumers Union is expected to charge that cable rates have risen 43 percent since 1996, two and…
Liberty Corp. plans to deploy a centralized graphics system that would allow it to standardize the look of its 15 TV stations. That would make it one of the first station groups to introduce such a system, since the notion…
With only two months to get his new CBS affiliate in Palm Springs, Calif., up and running, Bill Evans exudes confidence: He expects to take first place in the November book.“Quite honestly, because of our knowledge of the marketplace I…
What it is: Enterprise 2002 from Xytech in Burbank, Calif.What it does: Enterprise 2002 is a work-flow management and media-asset-management system. It is an enterprise-level software system to support back office applications of any production or postproduction environment. It is…
Title: Steve Necessary, president, Xstreme Division of Concurrent Computer Corp. Xstreme is the video-on-demand business of Concurrent.Background: Mr. Necessary joined Concurrent July 1 after serving as president, CEO and director of Power TV, a software subsidiary of Scientific-Atlanta, since January…
Cable Connect, the 60 million-subscriber-strong local cable unwired network, has a controversial new business plan: compete for national cable TV dollars.Heretofore, Philadelphia-based TelAmerica Media’s Cable Connect has primarily gone after what TelAmerica Chairman and CEO Lance Funston called “remnant time”…
See publication for the following listings:Demographic ratings: Broadcast Prime Time, SyndicationNight-by-night Nielsen Prime-time ratings for the week of July 8-14Ratings for the week of July 8-14
While some broadcast companies are slashing spending and others are shutting down entire news departments, Belo is teaming with Time Warner Cable to launch 24-hour cable news channels in Charlotte, N.C., Houston and San Antonio. Why now, when advertising is…
Geof Rochester is pictured at far right in the “Soul Food” photo (“Out & About,” EM, July 15).
Bill Evans, general manager at KPSP-TV, Palm Springs, Calif., agreed to keep a short diary for Electronic Media detailing the process of turning a low-power station that broadcasts old movies into a CBS affiliate. KPSP launches as a CBS affiliate…