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On Tuesday, Tribune-owned WB affiliate WGN-TV, Chicago, will broadcast a Cubs-Rockies game in high-definition television on digital channel WGN-DT.It is the first live, locally produced HDTV broadcast in the market and the third Tribune station to air sports programming in…
AdvertisingMichael Raymond to media director, Marketing Magic, from senior media planner/buyer.BroadcastingSteve Bailey to creative services director, KWBQ-TV and KASY-TV, Albuquerque, N.M., from promotions manager, WBDT-TV, Dayton, Ohio. Also, Jeffrey Finkel to general sales manager, from national sales manager.Valeri Staab to…
UPN unveils fall season premiere schedule UPN announced staggered premiere dates for its 2001-02 prime-time schedule beginning Thursday, Aug. 16, with a first-ever live episode of “WWF Smackdown!” (8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET) and continuing through the Tuesday, Oct….
AT&T, Comcast plan further talks on Broadband Comcast Corp. soon will begin discussions with AT&T Corp. on its original $58 billion stock offer for AT&T Broadband. A source close to AT&T said the board is looking for a revised offer,…
Lisa Voldeng has come a long way from founding Digital Mogul as a newsletter in 1998 to addressing what she sees as a “massive gap between market hype and market actuality” about new technology.The founding managing director and chief analyst…
I have an idea for a “reality” show: “Big Bother.” We get all these TV executives, see, maybe a dozen or so, and lock them in a house and instead of having cameras everywhere, we have TV sets everywhere, and…
The good news for the Radio-Television News Directors Association is that advance registration for its convention Sept. 12 to 15 in Nashville is running ahead of last year. As of July 25, RTNDA President Barbara Cochran said some 766 people-most…
Title: President of Aerocast, a streaming media services company that enables secure, high-quality, low-cost distribution of video across the Internet.Background: Prior to joining Aerocast in June 2000, Mr. Santana was vice president and general manager of Advanced Network Systems, one…
ABC, CBS and NBC have a new enemy to contend with: PVR.A major study on personal-video-recorder usage, obtained by Electronic Media, suggests that TV networks’ current emphasis on branding may come to naught in the PVR era. The study, from…
UPN is down to a short list of candidates to fill the top programming spot vacated by Tom Nunan on Friday.Heading the list, according to a number of sources, are Robert Greenblatt and David Janollari, the producers of UPN sitcoms…