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Wink, VoteHere to develop ITV votingInteractive TV provider Wink Communications has agreed to work with VoteHere, a supplier of electronic and online voting technology, to launch a system that would let viewers vote via interactive television. VoteHere’s software has been…

Rx for salvaging a career

A sad-eyed pediatrician sits in a sparsely furnished office in a Denver suburb, hoping to resuscitate a career that has spun wildly out of control. Suspended from his practice after a series of medical errors in a case that ended…

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Posted Friday, March 29, at 11:45 a.m. (PT); last updated at 12:40 p.m. ‘Survivor’ boosts CBS, but NBC takes Thursday demo victory CBS’s “Survivor: Marquesas,” back on at 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. (ET) Thursday after airing for two weeks…

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Posted Thursday, March 28, at 11:05 a.m. (PT); last updated at 5:30 p.m. ABC cancels ‘Once and Again’ Citing ongoing rating problems, ABC has decided to cancel the critically-received drama “Once and Again,” setting Monday, April 15 as its final…

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Posted Tuesday, March 26, at 9:40 a.m. (PT); last updated at 3:45 p.m. Cablevision offers channel to YES network Cablevision Systems is offering to make one of its channels available to the new YES Network on all its East Coast…

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Posted Monday, March 25, at noon (PT); last updated at 1 p.m. Academy Awards telecast flirts with record-low ratings Preliminary fast national ratings have ABC’s “74th Annual Academy Awards” telecast tracking near historical ratings lows for the prime-time portion of…

Talent moves

William Baldwin will be added to the cast of “R.U.S./H.,” a drama pilot for CBS by Studios USA. Mr. Baldwin is repped by Paradigm and Armstrong Hirsch. … Helen Mirren has agreed to star in “Georgetown,” a CBS drama pilot…

ParkerVision offers big-market solution

When KMGH-TV in Denver automates the live production of its newscasts beginning in June, the station hopes the change will allow it to reduce its technical staffing needs and to direct more resources toward content.That’s because during the next few…

Profile: Doug McIntyre

Title: President and CEO, On2 Technologies, New York.Background: Mr. McIntyre comes from a publishing background, having worked at Time Inc. and having been the president and editor in chief of Financial World magazine. He segued into technology when he joined…

‘Today’ show: Great idea, rocky start

During the early planning of the “Today” show, I wrote in a memo to the staff: “Seventy-five percent of all homes use radio between 7 [a.m.] and 9 [a.m.]. A great deal of that usage is music and news as…