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SeaChange powers Adelphia, ComcastAdelphia Communications Corp. has rolled out a video-on-demand service in Cleveland using SeaChange International’s Interactive Television System. The service offers VOD movies and a subscription VOD service featuring HBO on Demand, Showtime on Demand and Starz on…
“This November sweeps is the most important we’ve ever faced. Our future depends on it.”The sign-on message posted on the Birmingham, Ala. CBS affiliate’s newsroom computer system reminds the WIAT-TV team what is riding on this November ratings period.WIAT, a…
Station managers in Bakersfield, Calif., said strong local ad sales and growth in the market could mean business will be slightly up for the year.“The market is fairly hot because with the last census the city population is up 41…
Discovery Communications is doing something other major cable networks aren’t during these difficult economic times: growing channels that will strengthen its brand in an expanding digital market.While MTV Networks, ESPN, Turner Networks and other major cable content players are posting…
Twentieth Television’s next syndicated project, “Good Day Live,” debuts next week with a new background and new format thanks to an influx of cash from the distributor.Five stations are set to air the show Dec. 3 in the first phase…
On the night of Nov. 8, President Bush delivered a prime-time television address on the state of the ongoing actions in the war on terrorism. Or at least it was supposed to be a prime-time television address. But NBC and…
Title: Executive VP and director of broadcast, Universal McCann. Recent interesting deal: “You’ll have to watch `Malcolm in the Middle’ following Super Bowl XXXVI on Feb. 3 to see our most recent cutting-edge deal. While efficiency counts, imagination multiplies, and…
Broadband delivery newcomer PrediWave has developed a technology that could radically alter the way video-on-demand and other interactive content is delivered. In its new form of delivery, the bandwidth is allocated to the content rather than to the consumer, an…
“We would not consider it. We conscientiously honor our contractual commitments to our network and syndicators. There is some level of deception here in that-in those relationships, as well as with viewers-especially during live sports.”Bob Klingle, VP/general manager, WHAS-TV (Belo),…
Fall 1983. A bleak time. KAL Flight 007, with 269 aboard, is shot down when it strays over Soviet air space. Two hundred and forty-one Marines are killed when a truck bomb explodes in Lebanon. The United States invades Grenada.Whitney…