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Title: Senior Segment Manager for Internet Media at Sun Microsystems.Background: Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1997, Mr. Turcotte was business development manager for emerging entertainment markets at Silicon Graphics.Partners: “Our work with RealNetworks is one of the most important…
The theme of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable 2001 convention may have been “We’re Making Broadband Happen,” but the event, held last week in Chicago, was about more than just its multibillion-dollar infrastructure upgrade.In addition to addressing the…
The satellite TV industry has launched a behind-the-scenes campaign in Washington to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to give new life to a rule that requires the cable industry to sell programming to competitors.Under the so-called program access rule, cable…
Send out the clown. The last joke’s been told. The last pie has been thrown. It’s bedtime for Bozo. The Tribune Co. has given him and his size 1841/2 shoes their walking papers.A landmark figure both within Chicago and in…
Boot Camp motion gets squashed A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles refused yesterday to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit against Fox, rejecting the network’s claim that its “Boot Camp” reality series differs from CBS’s “Survivor,” because the latter…
Shaq, NBA best ‘Beast’ ABC’s summer replacement drama “The Beast” ran up against the immovable object known as Shaq Wednesday night during Game 4 of the NBA Finals on NBC. Premiering in ABC’s 10 p.m.-to-11 p.m. (ET) Wednesday time slot,…
News Director Mark Berryhill leaving KRON-TV Just seven months after joining Young Broadcasting-owned NBC affiliate KRON-TV, San Francisco, News Director Mark Berryhill is leaving the station. He was hired to lead KRON’s newsroom into a new era; the station will…
Cable fighting high sports programming costs The cable TV industry’s public relations campaign against soaring sports programming costs won a high-profile endorsement Tuesday from AT&T. “Sports inflation has gone through the roof,” AT&T Broadband President and CEO Dan Somers said…
Fox going regionalto meet with affilsNew York-Fox Broadcasting has scrapped plans for a single video-conference gathering of its affiliates in favor of regional meetings to be held in 20 to 25 midsize and smaller markets during a two-week stretch starting…
Karmazin has eyes for NBC Acquisition-minded Viacom President Mel Karmazin would “definitely” be interested in acquiring NBC — provided, of course, it was for sale, which its corporate parent General Electric says is not the case, and that the Federal…