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Comcast Corp. and AT&T Corp. appear to be making sure it won’t be easy for an unwanted suitor to foil their proposed $72 billion deal before it closes later this year-and for years afterward.In a 332-page shareholder proxy filed with…
Inserting ads into programming earned cable networks more than $3 billion last year, and with the increasing number of digital channels, the opportunity to earn more is enormous.But not if networks can’t get the ads into the programming. Inserting national…
Title: Senior VP, advertising sales/Eastern region, A&E Television NetworksRecent interesting deal: “Most recently we partnered with Horizon Media and Geico Insurance to create a multiplatform marketing package for them. It includes on-air sponsorship of our quarterly musical franchise `Live by…
“The concept of producing local talk, kids or teen shows worked for decades in the past, and it can work today. … Station owners would rather pop in a tape of a national show … [but] there are still ways…
What it is: MediaHawk Model 3000 video server from Concurrent Computer Corp., the latest model in Concurrent’s line of video-on-demand and interactive TV server products.Twice the machine: The MediaHawk Model 3000 essentially doubles the functions and abilities of its predecessor,…
Title: Manish Jha, VP of broadband and interactive TV sales, ESPN.Background: Mr. Jha joined ESPN after graduating from Colgate University in 1990 and has served as VP of affiliate sales development and operations, among other positions. He continues to oversee…
Comedy8 SIMPLE RULESTouchstone pilot pickup. Auspices: Gamble, Tracy (EP/W pilot); Shadyac, Tom (EP-N/W); Suarez, Flody (EP-N/W); Cameron, W. Bruce (author). Logline: A comedy series based on W. Bruce Cameron’s book “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter … And…
President Bush’s 2003 budget does the entire television business a disservice. Specifically, his proposal to hit broadcasters who haven’t given up their analog spectrum by 2007 with a combined $500 million in annual fees is a wrongheaded approach that, if…
With the economy in recession, the once high-flying news consulting business has taken a hit.“The consulting business is hurting,” said Carl Gottlieb, deputy director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. “I talk to news directors and consultants every day,…
They’re hot, happening and on their way up: the Rathers, Courics and Hewitts of the future. Searching high and low, from CNN to MSNBC, from Boston to Denver, we’ve identified the next generation of television news stars (with a little…