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Advertising & AgenciesJill Vannatta to VP, Starcom North America, from media director. Also, Charlie Walter to VP, from chief technology officer; Tim Hanlon to VP, from director, emerging contacts; and Andrew Swinard to VP, from general manager, Starcom IP.Shelley Sandberg…
To paraphrase Bert Parks, “There they are, the Misses, Mses and Misters of the Media Power Elite: Class of 2001.”The question is would the media powerhouses of today-especially the ones in broadcast and cablecast news-have been able to function in…
Former top Intranets.com executive Steve Crummey has been named CEO of e-StudioLive, a content creator for live interactive and on-demand webcasting. Mr. Crummey is a high-tech veteran with a track record of growing companies such as Lotus, Avid and Picture…
As television technology analysts at CableLabs, the cable industry’s research and development organization, put the finishing touches on the organization’s long-awaited “CableHome” home networking specification, some industry observers are wondering what objective the new technology will fulfill.Just as Internet industry…
1. Roger AilesChairman, Fox NewsRoger Ailes has changed the TV news game profoundly and irrevocably with Fox News Channel, which is coming off its first year of profitability and is still growing like mad-in subscribers, ratings and revenues (which are…
The other week, my dental hygienist was making the usual attempt at one-way chitchat while scratching plaque off my teeth. Out of the blue, she asked me, “So which of the reality shows do you like?”There are trendlets and then…
ReplayTV stirs up broadband tonicSONICblue’s ReplayTV has launched a new line of personal video recorders, the Replay TV 4000 series. The devices are capable of storing video received over a broadband connection, according to SONICblue. The units also offer “video…
Electronic Media Television will offer daily newscasts from this week’s Radio-Television News Directors Association convention. RTNDA News TV programs will be shown around the clock on hotel television systems in Nashville, at the Opryland Convention Center, via satellite and on…
FX, Fox’s general entertainment cable network, has given the green light to Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd and Robert Cooper’s Landscape Entertainment to proceed with the screenplay for a two-hour telefilm tentatively titled “Nazi Gold.”Mr. Chetwynd confirmed that the…
The Seattle Mariners are not only heating up Major League Baseball they’re also heating up ratings for CBS affiliate KIRO-TV’s newscasts.KIRO’s newscasts have been in last place in Seattle for years. Now for the first time the station is climbing…