15,322 Entries
“We all wish to maximize our programming efficiency. But the question that yet has to be answered is at what point do you just cannibalize yourself?”Renard Maiuri, general manager, KDRV-TV (ABC), Medford, Ore.“Repurposing is nothing new. Broadcasters with duopolies or…
Square footage and bedroom/bathroom count are basic details sought by any potential home buyer. But thanks to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and its recently announced TechHome Rating System, house hunters can now know the technological features of their future…
Fox’s purchase of the Chris-Craft Industries station group one year ago may thus far be best known for the rumors it has generated.Insiders and outsiders alike have examined the potential of the broadcast behemoth, filling the past 12 months with…
You just moved to a new town and are looking for a house. You see a home for sale, pull over and call up a video of the house’s interior on your cellphone.This may sound like something from “The Jetsons,”…
‘Mutant X’ to move forward, court rules One of the most anticipated new syndicated action TV shows for the fall season will be able to move forward, thanks to a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District…
EchoStar bids $32 billion for DirecTV Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications Corp., the second-biggest player in the North American direct-broadcast-satellite business, has made its long expected second bid for El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV, offering more than $32 billion in stock for…
Twenty years of MTV. Would Western civilization have plummeted any more slowly into the abyss without it? Or, all things being equal, would all things be equal?Watching cable’s music-video channel celebrate its anniversary last week-over and over and over-one thing…
Title: Executive vice president of products for ReplayTV.Background: Prior to joining ReplayTV in February 2000, Mr. Hastings was director of engineering at Acuson.On being acquired by SONICblue: “They were looking at making SONICblue a digital entertainment company for consumers. They…
For the first five years of its existence, the Internet was depicted as the TV killer, dimming the pixels of a moribund living room box. Not so, says the recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2001-2005. The Outlook…
Fox has either made agreements or is in negotiations with syndicators ranging from Carsey-Werner to Warner Bros. to Columbia TriStar that would allow the former Chris-Craft stations-now owned by Fox-to air an afternoon block of off-network sitcoms that also air…