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UPN hangs onto defector stationUPN seems to have staved off an attempted affiliate defection to Fox in Bangor, Maine. WCKD-TV, which is less than a year into a five-year contract as a UPN affiliate, has been carrying Fox programming under…
BroadcastingTammy Heinen to general manager, WHOT-TV, Atlanta, from manager, national spot sales, Atlanta, Univision.J.D. Huey to VP and general manager, WIAT-TV, Birmingham, Ala., from general sales manager.Fred Luciano to account executive, WTIC-TV, Hartford, Conn., from territory manager, Sealy.Mitch Klein to…
Time Warner Cable in Orlando, Fla., has moved the Fox Family Channel from its basic analog tier, where it was available to all the approximately 700,000 subscribers in Time Warner Cable’s Central Florida division, to its digital tier, where there…
As American audiences become increasingly fragmented and advertisers search for new ways to reach them, BillBoard Video believes it has found an untapped market of eyeballs at the gasoline pump.The Frisco, Texas-based company plans to roll out its Wireless Media…
Title: President of Emblaze Systems.Background: Mr. Darwish joined Israel-based Emblaze in early 2000 after working for six years as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, where he focused on companies in the Internet and software space. Emblaze was founded in…
Cablevision Systems slashes 2001 forecastNew York-Citing lower-than-expected advertising revenues, Cablevision Systems on Friday lowered its 2001 earnings forecast, sending its stock down 11 percent to $39.67. It also said it is evaluating financing requirements for 2002-which could include asset sales,…
Microsoft, CinemaNow have VOD Web solutionMicrosoft Corp. and CinemaNow, a video-on-demand distributor of feature films over the Internet, launched a new technology that can be licensed by others who want to create video-on-demand networks on the Web using their own…
Appearing like a softer, kinder and more jovial version of Anne Robinson in a recently produced test pilot, George Gray was introduced last week by NBC Enterprises as the new host of the syndicated version of “Weakest Link.”“Call him son…
Title: Chairman and CEO, Optimedia International (U.S.).Recent interesting deal: “My favorite recent media campaign that we developed at Optimedia was for BMW Films,” he said. “BMW hired some of filmdom’s top directors to write, produce and direct five short action…
Three cheers for the red, white and blue. And … green? It depends who’s doing the cheering.When people talk about the “spirit of America” now, they’re usually referring to a diverse people’s ability to recover from a terrible blow and…