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NBC stations pick up ‘Hip Hop Nation’

Several NBC owned-and-operated stations are hopping on a new weekly series from Zoom Culture in what could eventually become a national rollout.“Hip-Hop Nation: Notes From the Underground” is set to air on five NBC O&Os, with a 13-episode “trial run”…

Profile: Damon Mintzer

Title: President, Global-QVC Solutions, a division of e-commerce outsource firm Global Sports, whose principal shareholder is home shopping channel QVC.Background: Before joining Global-QVC when it was founded last summer, Mr. Mintzer spent more than a year as a senior vice…

Show me the broadband money

Broadband is considered by many to be a panacea for the media world’s analog woes- especially when it comes to program costs and content waste spiraling out of control.But a new report hints that at least initially, it just might…

The end may be imminent for ‘Ananda’

As stations finalize schedules for the fall season, one series fighting cancellation has received a potential death blow. Los Angeles, Chicago and likely New York have opted not to renew King World Productions strip “The Ananda Lewis Show” for a…

Upfront Summit in New York

A panel of media experts will examine integrated marketing and its impact on how advertising is bought and sold May 8 at the New York.Scott Donaton, editor of Advertising Age, will lead the discussion, which will include Julie Kantrowitz, chief…

Briefly Noted

MSNBC re-brands as `America’s News Channel’Struggling MSNBC has nicknamed itself “America’s News Channel” and wrapped its Peacock “bug” in a flag in a re-branding campaign aimed at selling the cellar-dwelling cable channel as “something uniquely American and fiercely independent.” In…

At Press Time

CBS may ask stations to help pay for NCAA New York-CBS is expected to ask its local stations to help pay for a $6 billion contract to televise the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, according to a Bloomberg report. The request…

NAB Notes

ITV coalition formed to intro content standardsA number of television and interactive production companies have joined forces to introduce a set of standards for interactive TV content based on XML and initially developed by two-way interactive TV provider GoldPocket Interactive….

Quick Takes

“My take on it would be [one of] two people: a guy that filled in for Bryant one time, Tom Bergeron-he did a really good job. He and Jane [Clayson] seemed to have a little chemistry. Either that or Brian…

Thomson grows together with Grass Valley

Thomson Broadcast Solutions announced its new management team last week at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas and stressed the speed with which the recently acquired Grass Valley Group has been integrated into the division of Thomson…