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Founded: Pathfire was founded as Video Networks Inc. in 1996. The company changed its name to Pathfire in January 2001.Key executive: Michael Eckert, CEO. What the company does: Pathfire is a business-to-business provider of digital media content distribution and management…
Founded: VCI, which stands for Video Communications Inc., was founded in 1976 as part of Springfield Television in Springfield, Mass. Springfield Television sold its TV stations in 1984, and VCI was spun off as a separate company.Key executives: W. Lowell…
Founded: Kasenna was spun off from Silicon Graphics as a venture-backed, independent company in January 2000.Key executives: Mark Gray, chairman, president and CEO; Satish Menon, vice president of R&D and chief technology officer; Neil McGowan, vice president of sales and…
Local TV is not dead.That’s the message from the heads of the largest independent station groups in the country.At a time when audiences are fragmenting with more channel choices from cable and satellite and consolidation is allowing mega-corporations to swallow…
Title: President of Post-Newsweek Stations.TV stations owned: Six, which cover 7.6 percent of the country.Hometown: Pittsburgh.Education: Master’s degree from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School and an undergraduate degree from Duquesne University.First job: Floor crew at PBS station WQED-TV, Pittsburgh.Background: Mr. Frank…
Title: Executive vice president of operations, Young Broadcasting.TV stations owned: 12, which cover 11.5 percent of the country.Hometown: Brookings, S.D.Education: Journalism degree from South Dakota State University.First job: Director of promotions and public relations at CBS affiliate KOLN-TV, Lincoln, Neb.Background:…
The HomeRF Working Group, a consortium of electronic media hardware manufacturers, last week ratified HomeRF 2.0, a higher-powered version of the committee’s previous home networking and broadband delivery specification.The new specification, which had been under development since the working group…
Promotional nightmareLos Angeles-NBC has to find a way to promote having six contestants from rival CBS’s “Survivor” on its new show “Weakest Link” without using the word “survivor” in the advertising, Reuters has reported. NBC thought it had scored a…
“Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” may rule the roost in households and older demographics, but when it comes to audience compositions for men and women in the key 18 to 34 demographic, two former network series rule the roost.Carsey-Werner Co.’s…
Lou, Katie. Katie, LouCNN seems likely to get what all the big network news organizations have: a sidewalk studio in New York much like the one that has put NBC’s “Today” show team of Katie Couric and Matt Lauer on…