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With the clock ticking down to a May 1 strike deadline and no contract negotiations scheduled with the Writers Guild of America, Hollywood producers are striking back. In a war of words that has come to characterize this phase of…
Time Warner Cable eyes AOL TV service Time Warner Cable is talking to AOL TV about deploying the television-based Internet service for the multiple system operator’s customers who receive digital interactive services, said Mike Luftman, a Time Warner Cable spokesman….
“We’ve tackled … hate crimes, elder abuse, holiday rip-offs, [etc.]. When we [editorialized on] summer youth curfew laws … we got 600 to 700 kids off the streets into some [youth] programs. I can’t speak for the other television stations,…
The good news for The Walt Disney Co.’s campaign to win rules governing interactive television last week was that Viacom/CBS officially endorsed the effort. But the bad news: In the wake of a last-minute lobbying campaign by the cable TV…
iSurfTV is emerging as a would-be dragon slayer in the interactive television industry, hoping to pierce the intellectual property armor of litigious interactive-programming-guide behemoth Gemstar-TV Guide. The start-up, which like its nemesis creates directories designed to help consumers navigate their…
Not long ago, Republican lawmakers approached reforming the Federal Communications Commission as a form of political retribution. Upset that former agency Chairman Bill Kennard, a Democrat, was overstepping his regulatory bounds, they threatened legislation to overhaul and downsize the agency,…
Despite a recent reprieve of sorts from the Federal Communications Commission, the fate of AT&T Broadband hangs in the balance between AT&T Chairman Michael Armstrong’s deepest desire for a public independent cable powerhouse and Comcast Corp.’s expansionist drive to become…
Changing destination of `Mir’ “Destination De-orbit?” When the Soviet-era Mir space station went into a descending orbit and crashed last week, an apparent reworking on Mark Burnett’s “Destination Mir” reality series project for NBC next season became inevitable. In fact,…
Groups to create digital TV center The executive committees of the National Association of Broadcasters and Association for Maximum Service Television tentatively approved the creation of a broadcast technology center to oversee improvements of the nation’s digital TV system. Final…
In 1980, the president of NBC, Fred Silverman, chose to get into a high-stakes poker game with the network’s one genuine superstar, Johnny Carson. As usual, Mr. Carson held the unbeatable trump card, and he walked off with all the…