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Even TV’s two “reality” monsters couldn’t slow cable down last month.Despite strong February sweeps showings by CBS and Fox, led by reality hits “Survivor: The Australian Outback” and “Temptation Island,” cable networks as a group managed to again boost overall…
“The talented new people that have been added to the anchor desk … In addition, at 6:45 [a.m.] we do something called `Commuter Cast.’ We do a tight summary of everything we’ve covered, so that people on their way out…
Portland blazes HD trailThe Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association announced plans for the summer launch of Action Sports Cable Network, a high-definition cable TV sports channel. As a commitment to HDTV, ASCN will build a 53-foot-long state-of-the-art…
Public broadcasters showing some muscleAre public broadcasters becoming a force to be reckoned with on Capitol Hill? Don’t laugh. The Public Broadcasting Caucus, created late last year by Democrat Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, has mushroomed to more than 50…
A year ago, AT&T Corp. was passionately defending its $120 billion investment in cable television systems to Wall Street and the press. Last week, the telecom giant was aggressively selling off some of those assets while squeezing rival AOL Time…
The business of television was reinvented first by the growth of cable and then by the development of Internet technologies. Now the convergence of cable and the Internet-the birth of interactive television-will shatter established models of television entertainment yet again,…
With the continuing shakeout of dot-com companies and the current state of the market, where will the road to convergence and online content wind up? Many entertainment, technology and telecommunication executives still believe the road, laden with hairpin turns and…
Age: 52.Title: CEO, Liberate Technologies.Location: Headquartered in San Carlos, Calif., with offices in Horsham, Pa.; London, Ontario; London; and Tokyo.Employees: More than 500 employees worldwide.Customers: AT&T Broadband, AOL, Comcast Corp., Cox Communications, Insight, Rogers, Shaw, Telewest, UPC.Financial backers: Liberate is…
Stations in the Greenville and Spartanburg, S.C./Asheville, N.C. market are turning to nontraditional advertisers to help make up for a soft national sales climate.“We sponsored a lifestyles exposition at the Palmetto Expo center in Greenville, and we had about 46…
DoubleClick to deliver ads for Meredith Magazine publishing company Meredith has established an alliance with Internet advertising company DoubleClick to use the latter’s advertising solution in the e-mail newsletters associated with Meredith’s magazine Web sites. Targeted ads will be inserted…