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“I believe the industry should set a specific set of guidelines that applies to all alcohol products and not differentiate between distilled spirits, malt beverages or wine. … [Any standard] should be based upon percentage of alcohol content, not whether…
Digital bandits looking to pilfer HBO’s compilation of licensed movies had better think twice before striking the pay-cable network’s video-on-demand service, which television technology developer Scientific-Atlanta is demonstrating on its Explorer set-tops this week at the National Cable & Telecommunications…
Barry Diller’s defining advantage in the marketplace morphing around him is his potential Achilles’ heel as well: being so far ahead of most companies in convergence and interactivity that he must wait for them to catch up so he can…
Sony Pictures Family Entertainment has promoted David Palmer to senior vice president of marketing and promotions. Mr. Palmer will continue to be responsible for developing and implementing the overall marketing, advertising and publicity campaigns for SPFE TV properties. Additionally, Mr….
Electronic Media’s “Cable 2001 TV News” will once again this year provide television coverage of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention.The show will run continuously on hotel cable systems throughout Chicago and will be available on viewing kiosks at…
UPN will take a bigger share of the upfront market this year than it did in 2000, predicts Michael Mandelker, executive vice president, network sales, at Viacom’s junior broadcast network.“The mating dance is just beginning,” he said, adding the prediction…
We have seen the future, the next big thing, the “killer app,” and it is a next-generation personal-video-recording system that blows current PVR and video on demand out of the proverbial water (“New technology is like personal video on steroids,”…
UPN took its up-with-UPN-and-unity act on the road last week, in a four-day, four-city blitz designed to increase affiliate solidarity coming off the network’s best-ever ratings season and going into what executives believe is the netlet’s most promising-and female-friendly-season yet.“This…
How far can an advocacy group go to pressure advertisers to shun programs the group finds offensive or even dangerous?That question may be answered soon in a U.S. District Court in New York, as a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by the…
When it comes to cable TV, Michael Powell, the Bush administration’s new Federal Communications Commission chairman, is no heavy-handed regulator.In fact, at first blush he sounds a lot more like an industry guy than a representative of the federal government.But…