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Network upfront picking up steam As expected, the network upfront marketplace has finally begun in earnest, led by NBC’s selling its advertising inventory at cost-per-thousand decreases of at least 5 percent compared to last year (EM, June 18). The Peacock…
‘Weakest Link’ headed to 3 CBS O&Os As speculated in Electronic Media’s June 18 issue, three of the CBS-owned TV stations have acquired the syndicated edition of NBC’s hit “Weakest Link” game show, which is set to be produced and…
The World Wrestling Federation is finally putting on a fight with some real suspense to it-and it’s a fight that should interest everyone in the television industry.The WWF is hauling one of its most persistent critics, the Parents Television Council,…
TechTV to practice what it preachesTechTV, a cable television channel that airs programming centered around the digital lifestyle, is beginning to embody the technology-journalism content aired on its network in its business strategy. The cable net, which is owned by…
A cable TV industry campaign to put a damper on soaring sports programming costs got a boost last week-in the form of a ringing endorsement from AT&T.“Sports inflation has gone through the roof,” said Dan Somers, AT&T Broadband president and…
Universal Music Group plans to launch by next year a music-video-on-demand service called The Viewing Lounge that will recommend video clips to customers based on their viewing habits, according to UMG Senior Vice President of Marketing Lisa Farris.The first-of-its-kind subscription…
The avails, they are a-changin’.Cable thinks it has a better idea-namely video on demand and the other forms of digital broadband interactivity and addressability it can offer-that could fundamentally alter the very nature of television viewing and thereby change the…
Weighed down by burgeoning debts and unrelenting losses of subscribers to direct broadcast satellite operators, cable industry attendees at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association show last week in Chicago acknowledged that they will soon be forced to try to…
Local news here in Washington, and I suspect virtually everywhere else, has been playing a lot of bait-and-switch games lately. Also bait-and-bait and the ever-popular bait-and-wait. They keep telling us how much they “care” about us and how much they…
News Corp.’s Fox Sports Net, whose Fox Sports Net West 2 telecasts the Los Angeles Dodgers, another News Corp. property, is in a major carriage dispute with Time Warner Cable in the Los Angeles area.FSN wants to raise the “surcharge”…