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Category: Web entertainment networksAkoowww.akoo.com2500 N. Harlem Ave.Elmwood Park, IL 60707708-583-9600D: Developer of innovative wireless technologies, products and services. The company’s patent-pending “kima wireless” enables devices such as PCs, car and home stereo systems, MP3 players, PDAs and cellular phones to…
Breathe.That’s something TV executives can all do a little easier now that the bottom has fallen out of the technology sector, especially when it comes to streaming media. The sense of urgency to launch complementary streaming applications has slowed as…
This WeekJune 5, 2001 New Media Summit, hosted by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, at Windows on the World, One World Trade Center, New York. Information: 212-524-7000 or www.pwcglobal .com/mediasummit.June 5-6, Internet Content West, at the Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles. Information: Gary…
Fox summer schedule high on original programming Fox has assembled a summer schedule refreshingly laden with original and “event” programming. Likely due to a carryover of original programming developed in case of writers or actors strikes, which have so far…
P&G makes big Viacom buy Viacom Plus, Viacom’s cross-media sales and marketing unit, and Procter & Gamble, the Cincinnati-based worldwide consumer-products company with more than 300 brands, have reached what sources are calling a $300 million marketing-partnership deal. It’s the…
CBS affiliates won’t scrap advisory board The CBS affiliates advisory board will not be reformulated as the network had hoped. In a closed-door meeting Wednesday morning at the CBS affiliates convention in Las Vegas, the network’s request was rejected by…
Leahy likely to take Senate Judiciary chair The path is now clear for Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to head the Senate Judiciary Committee because Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., will not vie for the chairmanship. As Senate Democrats prepare to assume…
Entering European markets can seem daunting to a television producer in the United States, but one company is making it easier for business news producers to bring their product overseas.FactBased Communications Ltd. produces financial television programs and related Web content…
There’s been a breakthrough in hard-liquor advertising on TV as a major broadcaster-the Sinclair Broadcast Group-and a major cable operator-Comcast Cable Communications-have started to carry ads for such products as Disaronno Originale Amaretto, Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky, Captain Morgan Original…
The house that visionary newsman Roone Arledge built is now home to a fractious and fractured ABC News family. The days when networks could and did spend money as quickly as it was printed-and when Mr. Arledge was collecting all…