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Fiorile elected NAB TV board chairman The National Association of Broadcasters TV board has elected Michael Fiorile, president and CEO of Dispatch Broadcast Group, as the board’s new chairman. Elected as vice chairman was Andrew Fisher, president of Cox Television….
Adelphia’s L.A. unit files for Chapter 11 Century Communications Corp., the Los Angeles unit of troubled cable operator Adelphia Communications Corp., filed today for bankruptcy protection. The filing, in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, came as Adelphia revised both sales…
In “TV’s Power 50” (June 3, Page 1), the photos of Ed Wilson, president of NBC Enterprises, and Ted Harbert, president of NBC Studios, that ran inside the issue were inadvertently reversed. Also, in the entry for Mr. Harbert, “Scrubs”…
In a practice called “unconscionable” and “inappropriate,” not to mention “illegal,” potential Emmy voters who have received “For Your Consideration” screener tapes and DVDs from networks and studios in the past couple of weeks are putting them up on eBay…
Kevin Bright of “Friends,” left, and producer Chuck Fries at a Caucus for Television Producers, Writers and Directors panel on May 29 in Beverly Hills, Calif.Celebrating the fifth anniversary of Philadelphia-based CN8’s “It’s Your Call With Lynn Doyle” on May…
“Ken Potashner, CEO of Sonicblue. They produce the ReplayTV devices, and they just overturned the ruling that would require them to share their customers’ viewing habits with the major studios. I think it’s going to create a more competitive environment.”Mark…
Do big bucks for broadcast mean big bucks for cable in its own upfront?“That’s the billion dollar question,” said Lynn Picard, Lifetime’s executive VP for ad sales. “I would assume that in order to keep pricing models in line, you…
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La., will not offer digital television legislation anytime soon, despite a major impasse among industry players over how to protect digital content from copyright infringement.The congressman has repeatedly threatened to offer a bill…
Intertainer launching broadband VOD in EuropeIntertainer will form a joint venture with Freedomland, an Italian new media company, to launch an Internet protocol video-on-demand service in Europe. The joint venture, to be called Intertainer Europe, will be modeled after Intertainer’s…
Upton, Tauzin ask for repeal of cross-ownershipTwo influential House lawmakers urged the Federal Communications Commission last week to repeal the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule, which prohibits the common ownership of a daily newspaper and a broadcast station in the same market….