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$34 million lined up by WildTangent Interactive game producer WildTangent is preparing to announce that it has lined up $34 million in financing. The lead investor in the round was Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment. The company creates 3-D multiplayer games…
Title: Senior vice president at Bravo Networks ad sales. Recent interesting deals: “Bravo has been looking to do more cross-promotional opportunities with advertisers, and we were able to accomplish that this year with Gallo’s Turning Leaf as a sponsor of…
Comcast signs 20-year deal with Gemstar Comcast Cable signed a 20-year pact with Gemstar-TV Guide International to deploy TV Guide Interactive in the majority of its digital cable homes; it will use other guides for the balance of its ITV…
Folks in Soap Lake, Wash., never had telephone service. Then their county-owned electric-utility provider stepped in. Phone service is due to be delivered this week-along with high-speed Internet access and the promise of a large menu of digital TV channels…
Bravo is increasing its budget for “original nonfilm programming,” such as the thoughtful cultural profiles and documentaries for which it is known as well as upscale versions of the reality-style programs that are all the rage across the TV programming…
Reality, Olsen twins in Fox’s lineup The Fox Family Channel will be targeting teens and tweens with 26-episode commitments for four new daytime series for 2001-02, including “So Little Time,” a live-action comedy starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (“Full House”),…
Paramount Domestic Television has promoted Brad Hart to vice president, production and programming. Mr. Hart had been the executive director, production and programming, overseeing “Entertainment Tonight,” “The Montel Williams Show,” “Real TV” and “Judge Mills Lane,” and will continue to…
In “KONG crowned king in Seattle” (EM, Local Listings, March 26), Fox affiliate KCPQ-TV, Seattle, has a one-hour newscast. It got a 4.4/10 for the entire hour, according to KCPQ News Director Todd Mokhtari. KCPQ got a 5.8/12 for the…
Comcast University is a school within a company-Comcast Cable, the third-largest cable operator in the United States, to be exact-designed to provide continuity and support to an executive base that is as diverse and rapidly expanding as the Philadelphia-based company….
Title: Director of Creative Artists Agency’s Media Lab, whose clients include TiVo, immersive video pioneer iPix, Luxxon Corp. and Valve. Before joining CAA this January, Mr. Kung was with Walt Disney Imagineering’s research and development division. Matchmaking: “What CAA is…