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DuBuc Widens New Media Focus
A&E Nets Exec Aims to Boost History Channel Viewership
2006 Hot List: Mike Steib
At NBC’s affiliates meeting in April the two co-chairs of the Affiliates Futures Committee made the pitch to the 230 broadcast stations about their next digital venture. That’s the National Broadband Co., an online video service for which NBC’s rising…
OLN Puts Brisket On Menu
Last week, OLN announced several upcoming shows to debut in the fourth quarter that blend OLN’s traditional focus on outdoor adventures and the emphasis of its new brand, Versus, on competition programming. The series include: “The Barbecue Championship Series” (working…
2006 Hot List: Keith Richman
Break.com doesn’t have the biggest audience of all video-sharing sites, nor does it offer the most clips. But it’s one of the stickiest, and it has something its biggest competitor, YouTube, doesn’t have: a content filter. Break posts only eight…
Washington Notes: FCC to Revisit Media Ownership
The Federal Communications Commission voted last Wednesday to restart its review of restrictions on media ownership, two years after an earlier attempt to loosen the rules failed. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin called the work a “vital process” concerning important issues….
Discovery Wild About ‘Harry’
Children’s Show Gets 26-Episode Order
CW Assembling Affiliates Board
Tribune’s Reardon to Lead Effort for First-Year Net
Fincher, Gelbart Team for FX Series
Pair’s Project Takes Crack At Comedy on Basic Cable
One Bid For Univision Expires, Another Comes In Late
Events probably didn’t go quite the way Univision Communications Chairman and CEO A. Jerrold Perenchio had been expecting last week. Mr. Perenchio had set a June 20 deadline for bidders interested in buying the Spanish-language media conglomerate. Two rival groups-one…