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Bloomberg TV ready to make a pit stopBloomberg Television has signed on to provide financial content for PointMedia Corp.’s Point TV, an interactive network for gas stations that broadcasts to monitors adjacent to gas pumps. Bloomberg will provide stock quotes…

The Insider

A toast to Cinnamon! And scoops!Warning: If you don’t want to know yet the spicenicity of the baby being born to Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper after months of infanticipating on Monday’s special edition of “Blue’s Clues” on Nickelodeon, skip…

Wall Street unhappy with AOL Time Warner

AOL Time Warner’s honeymoon with Wall Street is over.While the company generally is meeting performance expectations, analysts are questioning whether it is relying too heavily on cost cuts for bottom-line gains. They are also assessing the potency of first-time weakness…

Geographic opens vaults

National Geographic Television has partnered with Convera in a deal that will help the content company get a handle on its vast film library of more than 12 million feet-representing 25,000 hours-of film dating back to 1965.Not only is the…

Guest Commentary: An Emmy show you can bank on

The Emmy show will go on because there’s no business like show business. The twice-postponed ceremony that honors the best in television has been rescheduled for Nov. 4. This could put it in direct conflict with a potential seventh game…

New syndie scenes for `3rd Rock’

Leave it to that oddball family of aliens on “3rd Rock From the Sun” to find alternative ways to say goodbye in the off-network syndication universe.On NBC’s May 22, 2001, series finale of “3rd Rock,” the otherworldly Solomon family bid…

Profile: Marcel LeBrun

Title: President and CEO of iMagicTV, a provider of software products and related services that enable telephone companies and other service providers to deliver multichannel digital television and interactive media services to their subscribers over a broadband network infrastructure. The…

Quick Takes: How has your station handled the anthrax scare?

“On the air, we’re treating [it] like a bomb scare-we’re cautious with our reporting. In terms of mail, the person handling [it] is wearing gloves, and no one else is answering viewer mail. We’re not opening mail from people we…

Programming costs about to be squeezed

The content-related fallout of the ongoing terrorist crisis has just begun.What many thought would amount to little more than the cost of displaced TV programs or the delayed release of certain theatrical films is beginning to mushroom into a whole…

Disney, News Corp. have broadband vision

With video-on-demand high on the entertainment industry’s hot list, Hollywood studios are joining forces and establishing new businesses to deliver on-demand content to U.S. consumers. One such project is Movies.com, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Co. and News…