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Brad Grey signs exclusive deal with 20th Century Fox In a major coup, 20th Century Fox Television, the largest studio supplier of TV series to the broadcast networks for three years running, has signed an exclusive development deal with Brad…
House passes bill to postpone spectrum auction The House of Representatives late this afternoon passed legislation that indefinitely postpones the Federal Communications Commission’s scheduled June 19 auction of spectrum used for analog television channels 52 to 69. Supporters of the…
NCTA kicks off with optimistic cable industry forecasts Competition may be up and stock prices may be generally down, but it’s “sunny skies ahead” for the cable industry, as Brian Roberts, president, Comcast Corp., put it at the Big Picture…
Cable networks expect an increase in this year’s upfront, some say as much as 5 percent to 10 percent, but don’t tell that to advertisers, whose buyers are predicting a fairly flat marketplace. The discrepancies in opinion are expected, but…
Upfront prognosticators are pegging this as the year of the turnaround, but the big questions are how big the 2002 pie will be and which segment will get the biggest slice.The TV market overall is likely to be up in…
What it is: Fastrack, a hybrid editing system from Editware, in Grass Valley, Calif., that operates as both a linear and nonlinear editing system.How it works: The Fastrack system interfaces with and controls video servers. In addition, it controls mixers,…
During the last several years, the creation of original series has become a vital element in branding a cable network. Some programmers have been at it for a while, and others are relatively new to the original series genre, but…
Title: senior VP of marketing and business development, OpenTV, Mountain View, Calif.Background: Mr. Collette joined OpenTV in May 2001 after working at cable broadband technology provider ICTV for two years. Prior to ICTV, he operated his own strategic technology consulting…
Cable 2002, the 51st edition of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s conference, again finds the industry on the cusp of change and beset by important uncertainties.As the cable industry gathers in New Orleans this week, issues on the agenda…
Cable giants AT&T and Comcast are talking out of both sides of their mouths as they try to sell the government and the public on their planned $72 billion merger.Out of one side-the feel-good, smiley-face, fun-loving uncle side-they’re trying to…