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The stenciled lettering on incoming FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s office door isn’t even dry yet and he’s already sounding off about scrapping a bunch of pesky regulations.Welcome to the next Golden Age of the free market. With George W. Bush…
Having worked for two of TV’s most fabled modern-day prime-time stars, Roseanne and Kirstie Alley, writer-producer Amy Sherman-Palladino has gained a wealth of material on neuroses, phobias and angst to help draw rich character portrayals for her new series, The…
CBS takes bite of `Big Apple’CBS is looking to make the Thursday battle with NBC even more interesting by adding the midseason David Milch-created cop drama “Big Apple” to run in the 10 p.m.-to-11 p.m. (ET) slot opposite NBC’s “ER”…
Cable TV rates rose about 5.8 percent last year, well ahead of the 3.7 percent rate of inflation, according to a Federal Communications Commission report released last week.However, the report also said that during the study period-the 12 months ending…
On the rebound from its lingering legal debacle with the U.S. government, Microsoft Corp.’s biggest challenge is getting back in the interactive TV and mass media game. But it’s nothing a multibillion-dollar merger with the right media company won’t cure.Although…
SA inks deal with Metabyte NetworksDigital interactive television set-top box manufacturer Scientific-Atlanta has licensed software from Metabyte Networks that will add personal video recording technology to Scientific-Atlanta’s Explorer 8000 set-top boxes. The software, which allows the devices to target television…
What it is: A delivery system and service likened to an electronic mailbox for spot ads. The system centers on a relatively small piece of equipment-a 19-by-9-by-27-inch box weighing 50 pounds-that receives digital commercials via satellite from major dubbing and…
Anti-piracy law OK’d in EuropeTwo days after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told Napster to stop trading in copyrighted material last week, the European Parliament approved a new law to stem high-tech piracy. Under the new regulation, authors,…
A new online advertising design firm is preparing to announce a deal with telecommunications carrier Sprint.Showing that serendipity can be the mother of invention, newly launched Internet ad creator Grain stumbled by chance on the agreement to design a new…
Steven Weinberg is the new vice president of operations for News 12 Networks, part of the Cablevision family. In the newly created position, Mr. Weinberg will manage the daily operation of the seven News 12 entities, which serve more than…