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A $50 million lawsuit alleging breach of contract and unfair competition has been filed against Carat USA, Carat North America and London-based Aegis Group, the holding company for the two media-communications companies.The suit by Independent Media Services (IMS), a midsize…
TechTV, ABC to shareCable network TechTV and ABCNews.com have entered a content-sharing agreement under which TechTV’s technology news will appear on the network’s site. Under the terms of the deal, ABCNews.com’s moniker may also appear on TechTV.com’s site.PVR demand healthyA…
Title: Director of digital cinema business development for Grass Valley Group in Nevada City, Calif.Background: Before joining Grass Valley Group, Ms. Bonness ran her own e-commerce business for three years and worked as engineering program manager at Tektronix. Grass Valley…
Never could I bring myself to address her, or even refer to her, as “Kay.” To me she was always “Mrs. Graham.” And always will be. The shock of her sudden death has not worn off. She was a force…
With census figures for the year 2000 officially showing whites as a new minority in California, Los Angeles-area newscasts are already beginning to better reflect the area’s population mix.According to final census figures released in March, the black population fell…
Diva, one of the last remaining video-on-demand service providers to load its content manually, tape-by-tape, into cable operators’ headend equipment, is now mirroring the practices of competitors iN Demand and TVN by switching to a satellite distribution model.“It’s been publicly…
Universal Studios has reached a wide-ranging video-on-demand rights deal with pay-per-view network iN Demand, which is owned by four of the nation’s largest cable system operators. The landmark deal includes Universal’s theatrical motion pictures.Until now, the reluctance of major Hollywood…
* In “They don’t make ’em like Christy anymore” on Page 10 in this issue, George Christy’s lawyer has denied there is a grand jury investigation focusing on the columnist.
Four years ago, the cable industry needed a competitive weapon to vie with the direct broadcast satellite industry’s growing encroachment in the multichannel universe. Today that weapon, digital cable, is on nearly equal footing with satellite in subscriber count.By the…
With a strong local economy, Monterey, Calif., station managers are hopeful national sales will pick up by either the third or fourth quarter. For now, they say the market may be pacing between 5 percent and 10 percent below last…