News services taking digital-feed plunge
Daily scheduled news feeds to affiliates will be a thing of the past at most TV stations by the end of the year.By that time, stations subscribing to news feeds from ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN will have to be…
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Product Spotlight: t-m Production Suite
What it is: DreMedia’s t-m Production Suite is a software system that gives journalists additional search functionality and is layered on top of existing media-asset-management systems or newsroom computer systems.How it works: The software is based on technology developed by…
Seismic shifts might be ad trend
This year’s upfront is going to surprise a lot of people for reasons which may not yet be obvious, even to executives on both sides of the negotiating table who are caught up in preparations for what has become a…
Deja bad taste all over again
“Living With the Dead”? Gee, I thought it was going to be the story of a regular viewer of Nick at Nite. Or maybe TV Land. It could even be an umbrella title for the May sweeps, since the networks…
Ad market explored at Upfront Summit
Leading media buyers and top national advertisers will take center stage at this year’s Upfront Summit to be held May 8 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.Representing media-buying agencies will be Mel Berning, president, U.S. Broadcast for MediaVest;…
AOL TW could turn to spinoff
AOL Time Warner’s damage-control plan in the wake of its sobering first-quarter earnings report could include a public spinoff of its cable systems, though a widely speculated spinoff of its even more distressed AOL online unit is less likely. That…
Court TV’s guerrilla pre-upfront theater
Upfront is a serious, high-stakes business, so why are advertising agency buyers laughing at Court TV?Because this year, the marketers and sales executives from Court TV have been using humor to distinguish their network during this crowded pre-upfront period, when…
Cox pins hopes on bundled digital options
Cox Communications is becoming the bundled digital service champion at a time when many of its cable peers are suffering from slower subscriber growth, increased debt and disparaging financial statement disclosures.But despite continued speculation to the contrary, company officials last…
Talent Moves
Stephen Zito has signed on to executive produce CBS’s drama pilot “CSI: Miami,” joining executive producers Jerry Bruckheimer, Ann Donahue and Carol Mendelsohn. Mr. Zito is repped by ICM. … Lynda Lopez, sister of Jennifer Lopez, has joined NBC as…
Tupper Fox affils board chairman
John Tupper, whose Prime Cities Broadcasting owns two Fox-affiliated full-power stations serving the sprawling Minot-Bismarck, N.D., market, has been elected chairman of the Fox affiliate advisory board. Mr. Tupper, whose election struck some people as a dark-horse victory, has been…