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A battle for interactive consumers is brewing over the most popular leisure-time attractions-video games, movies, music and select on-demand transactions (from ordering pizza to trading stocks)-and is nearly erupting into a major brawl.But if a fight does break out, it…
“We were looking forward to building an audience for our Friday night [10 p.m. newscasts] with `Millionaire’s’ strong, older-skewing lead-in before `20/20.’ The move to Wednesdays will hurt us. But, Wednesday nights against `Law & Order’?-forget it!”Dave Ketelhohn, news director,…
Groups blast navigation-device rulesTime Warner and the Consumer Electronics Association have both taken potshots at the Federal Communications Commission rules for navigation devices that are now under review. Time Warner wants the FCC to rule that electronic program guides are…
Views about the Tulsa, Okla., market are mixed, with some station managers saying the market is pacing between 1 percent and 3 percent ahead of last year, while others say the market may be down 2 percent to 3 percent….
What’s the difference between a set-top box and a “residential gateway”? At this point, manufacturers are telling their cable customers the difference is the inclusion of a certified digital pipeline that lets subscribers interact with their cable systems. “The definition…
nCube’s hush-hushpersonal video moveVideo server technology purveyor nCube is planning to unveil a new technology infrastructure solution for the personal video recording industry next month at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association conference in Chicago. Few details about the hush-hush…
What it is: A new technology that enables a television to become a remote control for a computer via “cues.” The cues consist of a “:c” icon in the corner of the TV screen accompanied by an audio tone that…
Title: General director, organizations’ distribution and telecommunication area, Globo Cabo. Mr. Pluciennik supervises the two leading pay TV distribution platforms in South America: cable operator Globo Cabo, which has more than 1.6 million subscribers, and Sky/Brasil, a satellite operator with…
I read with interest “Getting ad mileage from ‘Motor Week’” (EM, April 30). While the topic certainly bears discussion, some of the basic facts cited in the article are incorrect. The column written for the Washington Post by “Motor Week’s”…
Title: Executive vice president, sales, Telemundo Network Group LLC.Recent interesting deals: “We just completed a Telemundo/Gems [our cable network] high-impact media schedule and `trip to Paris’ promotion for the Arenas Group’s launch of Universal Pictures’ `The Mummy Returns,’ which opened…