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If you’ve been looking to consolidate your remote controls into one device that not only controls the television, VCR and set-top box but also provides a TV guide, opens your drapes and operates your garage door, then Evolve Communications has…
On Dec. 31, Will Wright was looking forward to not working for the first time in 35 years.UPN-affiliated WWOR-TV, where he’d been the hard-charging news director for nine years, had been absorbed into a Fox-run duopoly with WNYW-TV in the…
FX’s “The Shield” doesn’t simply push the envelope, it blows it away.Running hard against the retro, feel-good, pro-police TV tide ascendant since Sept. 11, “The Shield,” starring Michael Chiklis (“The Commish”) as an L.A. cop who appears to be very…
At 38 years of age, Michael Kirsch, a reporter for CBS-owned WFOR-TV, Miami, seems to have lived longer than his years.Mr. Kirsch is not your typical local news talent. In the 1990s he covered the wars in Kosovo and Bosnia,…
Title: VP and general manager of NDS Americas. He is based in Newport Beach, Calif., and New York.Background: Mr. Rubin is one of the founders of NDS and has been with the company since its inception in 1988. Before joining,…
With companies trying to cut costs and at the same time keep up with the pace of technology, national weather service WeatherVision is becoming an important solution for a number of U.S. television stations.Jackson, Miss.-based WeatherVision broadcasts customized local weather…
In a setback for digital TV’s rollout, more than half the nation’s commercial TV stations told the Federal Communications Commission last week that they won’t be able to meet the agency’s deadline for launching digital TV operations this year.Under a…
EchoStar CEO Charlie Ergen and DirecTV CEO Eddy Hartenstein have been making lots of promises lately to convince government regulators to approve the planned merger of their companies.But upon closer inspection, their sweeping pledges have lots of wiggle room. Take…
News personalities on the moveTalent was hopping last week in major markets. In Los Angeles, KABC-TV’s sardonic sportscaster Bill Weir will leave the much-coveted job. He told Electronic Media he is “absolutely not” going to stay after his contract is…
A powerful Democrat wants the Bush administration to provide Congress with more information on its controversial decision to strip the Federal Trade Commission of its media merger review authority.At deadline, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., was planning to…