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CacheVision unveils personal video recorderCacheVision, a joint venture between Seagate Technology and Thomson Multimedia, introduced its digital personal video recorder last week at the Western Show in Anaheim, Calif. The CVR-4000 recorder is compatible with cable-ready televisions and analog and…
Sponsor involvement in program content is supposed to be a no-no, a very bad thing. One conspicuous exception to the rule, however, has resulted in conspicuously exceptional television for half a century. The program reflects well on the sponsor, the…
BroadcastingRachel Loftus to national sales manager, WNCF-TV, Montgomery, Ala., from local sales executive.Suzanne Teagle to VP and general manager, WCIV-TV, Charleston, S.C., in addition to general sales manager.CableTerence Yau to managing director and chief executive, Asia, Crown Media International, from…
Television station owners are grappling with a sobering fact: Even if an economic recovery gets under way in 2002, they will barely muster ongoing low-single-digit revenue growth in what remains a volatile, uncertain market.The absence of a rigorous revenue rebound,…
If it weren’t for his passion for baseball, Henry Yuen might still be teaching college math instead of helping couch potatoes revolutionize their television viewing and program selection.His frustration with not having an easy, surefire way to record a Boston…
Title: Executive VP media director at Hill/Holliday, Boston.Recent interesting deal: “We were the first agency to take advantage of new wireless technology that enables the delivery of micro-targeted, out-of-home video advertising on taxi tops. As part of an `unusual places’…
see publication for the following listings:Demographic ratings: Broadcast Prime Time, SyndicationNight-by-night Nielsen Prime-time ratings for the week of Nov. 19-25Ratings for the week of Nov. 19-25
It’s time for NATPE to come clean.Electronic Media reported last week that New Orleans attorney Walter Wilkerson, after having been retained by the National Association of Television Program Executives, sent a letter to hotel operators in the Big Easy canceling…
Though CNN won the all-news channel ratings race for the month, the ultimate winner appears to be Fox News Channel, which made heavy gains in year-to-year growth.For the period of Oct. 29 to Nov. 25, CNN averaged a 0.9 household…
EchoStar, the home satellite TV service, is spending $26 billion to merge with its No. 1 rival, DirecTV. Comcast and AOL Time Warner are reportedly offering billions of dollars for AT&T’s cable TV division.And at last week’s Western Cable Show,…