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Fox Television Network President Tony Vinciquerra is now president and CEO of the Fox Networks Group, a position that gives him oversight of more than 30 major domestic cable and satellite networks owned by News Corp., in addition to oversight…
Broadcasters breathed a sigh of relief earlier this year when John McCain finally got his campaign finance reform bill passed. In the finished version of the legislation, the Republican senator from Arizona abandoned a measure that would have required TV…
In a move that could augur ill or well for Comcast’s proposed acquisition of AT&T Broadband, a Federal Communications Commission study released last week contended that a cable company serving 27 percent of the nation’s multichannel TV households has just…
MTV Networks Chairman and CEO Tom Freston expects all the MTV Networks to make a strong showing in the cable upfront market that began to break last week. But it’s MTV’s “The Osbournes” that’s on track to attract the industry’s…
A month before their first national get-together in more than a year, ABC and its affiliates seem as far apart as they’ve ever been.The network’s bruising 2001-02 season exacerbated tensions on both sides on some new issues and some old…
AOL Time Warner is fit to be tied.With its stock price, executive ranks and recovery under siege, AOL Time Warner is desperately searching for ways to create a positive spin. But that may still be a ways off, given the…
The Monster of Madison Avenue meets the Behemoth of Broadcast Row.It’s not a myth, after all! It’s one for the new millennium and the brave new era of consolidation: The billion-dollar multiple-platform deal between a mega-media agency and a mega-media…
OMD USA has concluded the richest single advertising deal in the history of TV: a one-year cross-platform deal with The Walt Disney Co. worth in excess of $1 billion.The precedent-setting, mega-agency-to-mega-media-company deal, which was first described by Electronic Media (May…
Director Pierre de Lespinois has found a creative way to use technology to streamline the production process and save networks a lot of money.Mr. de Lespinois, creator of large-scale shows such as last year’s “When Dinosaurs Roamed America” for Discovery,…
What it is: The MicroTuner MT2050 single-chip tuner from Microtune in Plano, Texas.What it does: The tuner is geared for digital applications, specifically price-sensitive ones such as cable modems, said Jim Fontaine, chief strategy officer with the company. Cable modems,…