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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, with Comedy Central’s Larry Divney and host Jon Stewart on the “Daily Show” set in New York June 12.Proctor & Gamble’s Dave Cowan, left, NATPE’s Peggy Kelly and The Game Show Network’s Richard…
Gemstar loses patent battle over set-topsWashington-A U.S. International Trade Commission judge Friday ruled that set-top makers Pioneer Corp., SCI Systems, Scientific-Atlanta and EchoStar did not infringe upon Gemstar-TV Guide’s patents when building set-top boxes that included their own interactive program…
Created by author and comic book artist Kazuki Takahashi, “Yu-Gi-Oh!” originally gained early popularity in Japan and internationally through the publishing of paperback-size comic books called manga, which are now being embraced by American fans of anime and pulp novels.Through…
Connie Chung spent last week putting the big pieces in place for her new show, “Connie Chung Tonight,” which debuts at 8 p.m. (ET) Monday on CNN.What those pieces are exactly, Ms. Chung wasn’t saying. She’s too competitive to tip…
Mindrocket Media, a newly bannered San Francisco kids programming company, has more than a cat in its hat. The producer of preschool-age educational programming, formerly known as JP Kids, has acquired the rights from Theodor Seuss Geisel’s estate to develop…
Direct TV has started adding commercials to pay-per-view movies. Another little barrier falls. Even though you’re paying to see the film-paying presumably for the privilege of watching it unedited and free of commercials-some movies now come with ads attached to…
WBOC and WHRO ‘at war’ over digital CBS affiliate WBOC-TV, Salisbury, Md., filed a complaint on June 11 with the Federal Communications Commission that was an “emergency request to seek immediate relief from harmful interference,” claiming the digital signal of…
It’s round two in the increasingly bitter battle between the Television Bureau of Advertising and the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau over the issue of alternative delivery systems, primarily direct broadcast satellite, and the effect of ADS on wired cable penetration.The CAB…
What a diffidence ‘Today’ makesHere’s the most interesting intelligence that emerged from a week of chitter-chatter about Matt Lauer’s hair-which The Insider has seen close up and to which she gives a thumb’s up (though some of my colleagues here…
“Yu-Gi-Oh!,” the hottest Japanese import since “Pokemon,” has closed a renewal with Kids’ WB, ensuring the programmer 39 more episodes of one of the most popular children’s shows around.Representing perhaps the next billion-dollar kids series franchise, the renewal of “Yu-Gi-Oh!,”…