ABC Leaps to Top of Sweeps Pack
NBC’s Olympics, Fox’s ‘Idol’ Threaten
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Animated Nets Race To Go HD
While several major cable networks have upgraded tentpole series to high definition, rival kids networks Cartoon Network and Disney Channel have quietly converted their animation production processes to HD in presumed preparation for launching HD spinoff channels. “We have made…
Artful Daytime Emmys
The 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards is a big bundle of firsts. The April 28 broadcast on ABC will take place on the first Friday of the May sweeps (instead of the traditional Friday of upfront week in May) for…
Hi-Def Ads Still Lagging
Advertisers are starting to believe the high-definition hype. The number of HD cable and satellite subscribers totals only about 6 million, representing about half of the number of owners of HD television sets, according to industry estimates. For last week’s…
TV Analysts Downplay Broadband
Outlook Favors Cable, Satellite
News Briefs: Michaels to Join ‘Sunday Night Football’
Al Michaels, as expected, will join NBC Universal Sports as play-by-play announcer on “NBC’s Sunday Night NFL Football,” the network confirmed last week. In return for ESPN’s letting Mr. Michaels out of his contract, NBC agreed to sell ESPN the…
Disney Nets’ Upfronts Take Off
SoapNet to Roll Short Film; Kids Shows Going Online
Users Overestimate Costs of On-Demand
But VOD Viewership Rising, Study Says
GM Plans Shift in Local Ad Business
Buyer to Invite Offers From Broadcast and Cable
The Road to Live VOD Ad Insertion
Comcast will fire up Tandberg Television’s AdPoint capabilities in a phased approach over the next few months. At the moment Comcast is using the system to automate the process of marrying ads with video-on-demand programming for the three networks, with…