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Steve Harrigan’s 11/2 months in and around northern Afghanistan sounds like “Survivor” meets Edward R. Murrow.There was the salmonella (he keeled over during a live report); the altitude adjustment (“tricky” in the oxygen-light atmosphere in the Hindu Kush mountains); the…
Twentieth launching cross-promotionTwentieth Television will beef up its slate of promos with five new cross-promotional campaigns with Fox Interactive, Activision, Champs Sports, Broadway Across America, Star magazine and The National Enquirer. The promotions incorporate runs of hit off-network series “Buffy…
Radio-frequency silicon and systems company Microtune plans to make a gutsy move in an uncertain market when it makes available early next year a new silicon chip designed for high-performance set-top boxes. The MT2111 will be marketed to manufacturers that…
TV Guide Online offers TechGuideTV Guide Online has launched TechGuide, a guide to entertainment technology that can be found at www.tvguide.com. The guide will offer technology information for the average person, such as how to set up a home entertainment…
A decade ago, around-the-clock coverage of the Persian Gulf War catapulted CNN to the forefront of TV news. Now America’s war on terrorism is turning Al-Jazeera, a small upstart network from a tiny Arab nation, into one of the most…
The proposed merger of the two dominant domestic satellite services and the consequent shutout of Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Global from the lucrative U.S. market will impact the price of and demand for content.Analysts are predicting everything from a price war…
EchoStar’s $25.8 billion bid for direct broadcast satellite rival DirecTV probably won’t pass muster with federal regulators-and it shouldn’t.Satellite legend Charlie Ergen, who built EchoStar dish by dish and whose number of subscribers would nearly triple from 6.4 million to…
Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures. That’s why GlobeCast employees thought nothing of brazenly knocking on the doors of lower Manhattan residents on Sept. 11 and asking to use their phone lines. Within a few hours of the attacks, GlobeCast had…
“It’s hard to imagine this administration [stopping] a deal when the parties are so open to compromise. We’d prefer no sale at all, but as between Malone and Murdoch reinventing PrimeStar and Ergen coming in ready to compete, the EchoStar…
Zoo Productions, a Los Angeles-based production company, has filed a lawsuit against NBC and “Fear Factor” producer Endemol Entertainment claiming the hit reality series is a rip-off of a concept from an Internet-based series called “Dare for Dollars.”In the copyright…