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What it is: An operator-directed video-streaming solution that provides an easy-to-use, cost-effective way to deliver full-screen, 30-frames-per-second, television-quality video over high-speed cable networks to PCs and other Internet protocol-based appliances.Video can be scaled from 300 kilobits per second to 2…
Title: Director general of media asset management, Televisa, S.A. de C.V. Mr. Payne joined Televisa in February 2000 to convert its enormous analog catalog-700,000 hours of entertainment, news, sports and music programming (plus 30,000 songs, a half-million photographs andissues of…
Age: 38.Title: Vice president, broadcast and entertainment, eMotion.Founded: 1992 as Cinebase Software, renamed eMotion after merger with Picture Network International, January 2000.Headquarters: Vienna, Va. (offices in Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley and Chicago).Employees: 204.Investors: Privately held. Investors include GE…
Age: 37.Title: President of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, the operating unit that aligns SPE’s digital production with its online content and game services to deliver next-generation broadband entertainment.Also oversees: SPE’s digital production and online assets, which include Sony Pictures Imageworks,…
Age: 43.Title: CEO PacketVideo Corp.Location: San Diego.Founded: 1998.Employees: 300.Investors: Credit Suisse First Boston, Intel Capital, Motorola, Nexus Group LLC, Philips, Qualcomm, Reuters Group PLC, members of the Rockefeller family, Siemens Mustang Ventures, Sonera, Sony Corp., Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Time…
Age: 38.Title: CEO, StreamAudio.Location: Tacoma, Wash.Employees: 12.Financial backers: Privately funded through Bedrock and Associates, which consists of Mr. Case and three partners, who for the past 10 years have bought and sold radio stations.The Internet is changing nearly every facet…
A lot can happen in one year, especially in the Internet arena. Given the industry’s changing environment during the past 12 months, Electronic Media decided to check on the individuals named on its 2000 list of “10 Internet Executives You…
WPIX-TV is based in the Daily News building at 42nd Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan. But the Tribune Co.-owned WB station can clearly cover news live from as far away as the tip of Long Island, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Atlantic…
The furor over “Jackass” copycat injuries proves the issue of media sleaze and violence won’t go away-and that stupidity will never be out of fashion.A few weeks ago, a teen-ager was burned while he imitated the host of the MTV…
Age: 39.Title: Senior vice president of Microsoft’s television service platform.Duties: Responsible for core businesses of Microsoft’s WebTV interactive analog television service and Microsoft TV digital interactive cable platform.Location: Redmond, Wash.Education: B.S. degrees in mathematics and computer science, Oregon State University.Microsoft…