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Title: Vice president of marketing and programming, Susquehanna Communications, a 25-year-old York, Pa.-based multiple system operator serving about 200,000 customers in secondary markets. The company recently deployed t-commerce applications contracted last month from solutions provider Commerce.TV.Why ITV? “Because we’re in…
‘Survivor’ thrashes ‘Friends,’ ‘Will & Grace’ CBS’s “Survivor: The Australian Outback” won an across-the-board demographics rating victory in its fourth weekly battle vs. NBC’s expanded 40-minute versions of “Friends” and “Will & Grace” during the 8 p.m.-to-9 p.m. (ET) Thursday…
‘First Years’ slated for NBC Monday night In his second major programming move since being named president of NBC Entertainment, Jeffrey Zucker is scheduling the midseason drama-comedy “First Years,” in the 9 p.m.-to-10 p.m. (ET) Monday time slot starting March…
Broadcasters making deal to clear channels 60 to 69 A few broadcasters that occupy channels 60 to 69 on the analog television spectrum are near agreement with wireless phone companies on a plan to clear the band for wireless use,…
Twentieth puts ‘Texas Justice’ on docket Having gone two for two with a pair of courtroom strips in the past two years, Twentieth Television is picking up the gavel once again with “Texas Justice.” After a quiet National Association of…
Viacom President Mel Karmazin has upped the ante. He promised Wall Street that his company would generate $6.2 billion in free cash flow this year, 20 percent more than originally planned. That’s up from last year’s $5 billion. This is…
Two of the blue-chip marketers the XFL had touted as advertising on its games, American Honda Motor Co. and Procter & Gamble, have already bailed, according to executives familiar with the situation.In fact, the P&G buy was actually a “hold,”…
Many media companies are scaling back their new media initiatives big time in the wake of the dot-com shakeout. Not Lagardere.The eighth-largest media company in the world has created a new division to leverage its content across the cable, interactive…
Executives chosen among Electronic Media’s “12 to Watch” for 2001 (EM, Jan. 22) will discuss the future of media Feb. 23 at an International Radio and Television Society Newsmaker Luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. The event will…
Barely a month after America Online merged with Time Warner, some companies are already complaining that the new media behemoth is burning bridges in Hollywood over issues of exclusivity.The controversy surrounds exclusive contracts the company’s interactive television unit, AOL TV,…