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‘Ally McBeal’ canceled by FoxFox has canceled “Ally McBeal,” the quirky series about a female Boston lawyer (Calista Flockhart) whose love life and fantasies divided viewers and critics. The end came just days after the series, which had seen its…
This WeekApril 21-23, 2002 CEA and EIA Spring Conference, sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington. Information: www.ce.org.April 22-26, Internet World Spring 2002, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Information: www.internetworld.com.April 23-26, Streaming Media West,…
AOL’s languishing online service was supposed to be the growth engine for the world’s largest media company. But now the best minds at Time Warner are working to create new television-like content solutions for AOL’s subscriber and earnings problems.It’s not…
* In “The cheap, fast approach to making the DTV leap” (April 8, Page 7), the name of system integrator SignaSys was spelled incorrectly. SignaSys’ Web site can be found at www.signasys.com.* In the chart accompanying the story “Fewer series…
Sie a reel competitorDenver is getting ready for its close-up. John Sie, ever the man with a plan and a vision and, most of all, the money to back both up, has a roadmap to transform the cowboy town of…
Starz on Demand VCR functions catching onEarly trials of Starz on Demand’s subscription video-on-demand service indicate that viewers like being able to use the VCR-like functions it offers. Subscribers use the pause function during about 90 percent of the Starz…
Chris Clouser, executive VP and chief global marketing officer of Burger King Corp., will be the keynote speaker at the Electronic Media and Advertising Age Upfront Summit, to be held May 8 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York.“We…
History is being made in Boston this week as Nielsen launches People Meters in 600 homes, making the sixth-largest market the first in the country to consign household meters and sweeps diaries to the past.And Boston TV stations are making…
To win National Association of Broadcasters’ support for new equal employment opportunity regulations, the Federal Communications Commission will have to lower its expectations.At least that was the signal that NAB was sending loud and clear last week.“NAB does not believe…
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., believes cable rate increases have become a major national problem-and says busting up cable’s basic tier may be the solution.“I’m not sure an 80-year-old woman who subscribes to cable should have to pay for ESPN,” Sen….