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E! Entertainment Television unveiled a slate of eight new series targeted at its core 18 to 49 audience and the advertisers looking to reach them. The new shows are all produced in-house and will debut this fall or in early…
Despite soft national sales in the Medford-Klamath Falls, Ore., market, some station managers say key categories outside automotive have seen an increase.“We’re seeing growth in traditional top Fox categories like beverages and fast food,” said Peter Rogers, general manager at…
Exclusive agreements eluding iN DemandiN Demand, which is trying to secure content licenses from major film studios that would enable the company to transform its limited menu of pay-per-view movies into a full-fledged cable VOD service, has abandoned hopes of…
In these cash-strapped, stay-at-home economic times, who travels hundreds, even thousands of miles for a working lunch? Affiliates of The WB, that’s who.More than 400 executives representing the local stations will descend on New York this week, where they’ll get…
Beneath all the concerns about a soft advertising environment, slowing economy and lower earnings expectations is the subtle promise of consolidation growth that is likely to mushroom out of a recovery in 2002.You can hear it in the comments of…
Cable home shopping network ValueVision is in talks with interactive television platforms Microsoft TV and AOL TV about creating a digital cable channel that would operate at broadband speed while still celebrating the tradition of the broadcast networks.“We’re under a…
Look for “WWF the Movie,” coming soon to a multiplex near you.“Whether we call it that or not, that’s what we’ll be doing.” That’s the word from Vince McMahon, chairman of World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, who intends to create his…
BSkyB writes off Web portfolioBritish Sky Broadcasting has written off the entire value of its “new media” (Web) portfolio at a cost of L16 million ($22.7 million) while increasing its stake in British Interactive Broadcasting Holdings to 80.1 percent during…
What it is: Hailed by its creator, Kanakaris Wireless, as “The 24-hour channel that goes where you go,” AK.TV is in the process of becoming an interactive TV channel that can be viewed worldwide on multiple platforms. This prospect is…
Harry DeMott left a lucrative eight-year post as a director and media and communications equity analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston a year ago to launch his own investment firm, Gothic Capital Management, just days after the NASDAQ peaked. Although…