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Like many long-term relationships, the one between networks and their affiliates has had its ups and downs. Unfortunately, it is currently at a low point. In March, the Network Affiliated Stations Alliance, which claims to represent more than 600 local…
Calling all streaming media companies!On June 4, Electronic Media will publish its annual Streaming Media Resource Guide. To submit your request for a listing, please send e-mail by May 21, 2001 to speavey@crain.com with the following information:Company name, URL, mailing…
Only several months after Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff proclaimed last July that the American interactive television market would generate $25 billion in revenues by 2005, some new media insiders are now whispering that interactive TV in the United States…
You’re somewhere in America and you pick up the local phone book. You call a number of people at random-let’s say 16-and ask them to come downtown and bring their resumes. When they arrive, you see that 12 of them…
AOL Time Warner’s self-proclaimed media business model of the future is immediately being put to the test and so far is doing so well that it’s forcing other faltering and uncertain media concerns to take notice.There is little doubt investors…
Arnold Sheiffer has been named chairman of station-rep firm giant Petry Media Corp. Mr. Sheiffer had been serving as a director of the company and as interim chief financial officer in his capacity as managing director of Sandler Capital and…
Imagine a place where the newest technologies coexist seamlessly. That’s the idea behind the National Association of Broadcasters’ convention’s E-topia, the first exhibit hall completely dedicated to showcasing the newest-to-market technologies in electronic media. Exhibitors will demonstrate how they are…
Although national sales in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are soft, station managers predict the market will turn around by the end of the third quarter and into the fourth quarter.“We believe that the fourth quarter is going to be fine,”…
Title: Co-president, co-chief operating officer and member of the Office of the CEO at Gemstar-TV Guide International.Mr. Boylan has overseen all cable industry business for Gemstar-TV Guide since July. Before assuming his current position, he was responsible for TV Guide’s…
Title: Executive vice president of advertising sales, Hallmark Channel (formerly Odyssey Network).Recent interesting deal: “One of our recent interesting deals is our partnership with Subaru of America. In a multitiered campaign, Subaru was the on-air sponsor for our first original…