Boom time in Jacksonville
When in 1975 Tom Wills, sporting fashionably long hair and packing a canary yellow suit, saw the St. Johns River for the first time, he knew that there in , he’d found his boater’s paradise.Later he would realize he had…
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Doing D.C. their way
Brit and Kim Hume, the husband-and-wife power duo at Fox News in Washington, are joking about the Barbeque Country restaurant in rural Warrenton, Va., not far from their modest getaway home in tiny Delaplane, Va.“This is a genuine, legitimate, authentic…
Product Spotlight: NewsLink
What it is: NewsLink, a newsroom automation system from Sundance Digital in Irving, Texas.How it works: NewsLink integrates the equipment involved in the production of broadcast news. It links the newsroom computer system, still stores, character generators, video servers and…
Profile: Ty Lam
Title: President, Buzztime Entertainment. Buzztime is an interactive 24-hour play-along trivia games channel.Background: Mr. Lam assumed the post of president of Buzztime in 1999 when the company was founded. He previously worked with Buzztime’s parent company, NTN Communications, on interactive…
Satellites speed up on-demand delivery
Goodbye tape. Hello IP packet.Showtime is the latest content provider to partner with a satellite distribution company to deliver its on-demand content digitally to cable system headends. The network will use N2 Broadband’s MediaPath solution this summer to distribute content…
Not all mergers made in heaven
Some of the media mergers that have commanded the most flashy investor premiums and press coverage in recent years may not have been such good ideas after all.While that may seem obvious now, with media company valuations scraping the bottom…
Promax & BDA delivers big names, new sessions
The Promax & BDA Conference & Exhibition in Los Angeles this week will meet some of the television industry’s toughest issues head on with inspirational speakers and back-to-basics sessions aimed at raising ratings and revenue.The event’s location has enabled organizers…
Ratings
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California gets serious about safety
Efforts to get the story out faster can lead to shortcuts on safety-and this means danger in the workplace for thousands of electronic-news-gathering workers and bystanders where news happens. There have been many accidents attributed to news van antennas hitting…
Stations use WOW set-top box to plot their digital course
LIN TV Corp., Sunbelt Communications and other station groups are taking digital matters into their own hands.Rather than wait for cable operators to decide whether, where and how many of their digital signals to carry, some broadcasters have decided to…