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Charter picks up three digital Fox Sports netsFox Sports Digital Networks introduced three new channels last month to digital cable subscribers on approximately 75 Charter Communications systems, said David Nathanson, general manager of Fox Sports Digital Networks and director of…
Title: Executive vice president and chief technology officer of ACTV and CEO of Digital ADCO.Background: Before joining ACTV in January 1998, Mr. Liga was vice president of research and development for CAI Wireless Systems and president of CAI Wireless Internet.About…
Michael Finkelstein, named CEO of SBS Broadcasting last week, vowed to reduce the company’s single largest expense-programming-to no more than 40 percent of total revenues. That will raise European TV station margins by 20 percent to 25 percent and generate…
After recent success in its nonfiction programming department, Atlas Media Corp. is readying to break into the syndication marketplace with new divisional units and an exclusive contract with the world’s shortest twins to develop a series around them.Atlas founder Bruce…
The latest wave of the British invasion is sweeping the United States.BBC Technology has signed digital media consulting pacts with two major American broadcasters-Fox and DirecTV.Earlier this year, the BBC’s internal technology development team assumed an identity of its own,…
In “Digital video services boost cable revenue” (Aug. 6, Page 1A), Kent Kalkwarf is the chief financial officer of Charter Communications.
Though advertisers have become more cautious in Macon, Ga., station managers said the Robins Air Force Base keeps the local economy stable. Top ad categories in Macon include auto and electronics. According to BIA Financial Network, Macon TV revenues were…
Cable’s 2001 upfront odyssey is essentially over, and according to sources on both sides of the negotiating table, the industry will tally around $4 billion, down approximately $700 million, or 15 percent, from last year’s record-setting upfront ad take.In terms…
Strained romancefor Rocket ScienceLos Angeles-Warner Bros.’ Telepictures Productions has brought a breach of contract suit against independent producer Rocket Science Laboratories for the “misappropriation” of an unidentified romance-based series they were co-developing. The series in question is “Matchmaker Mansion,” sources…
Maybe George W. Bush would be less aghast at the notion of cloning if some other term were used. Don’t think of it as cloning, George W. Just think of it as “digital remastering.”I’d love to be digitally remastered, wouldn’t…