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News Corp.’s Murdoch, Chernin Get Raises for 2004

Rupert Murdoch received 22 percent more in compensation for the 2004 fiscal year than he did a year ago, according to News Corp.’s annual report issued last week. The media giant’s chairman and CEO earned $4.5 million in salary, a…

Prickly Relations Becoming Norm

| Cable | MSO-Programmer Negotiations Increasingly Contentious

Seattle Can Show the Way

Tech-Savvy City an Excellent Place to Test New Tools

Charter Announces COO Bellville Will Resign

Charter Communications said last Friday that Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer Margaret Bellville will leave the company at the end of the month. Ms. Bellville joined Charter two years ago after serving as president and CEO of streaming media…

Burnett Ups Ante for Placement

| Advertising | Reality Guru Lands Huge Integration Deals for ‘Contender’

‘Insider,’ ‘Danza’ Jump Out to Lead Among New Strips

| Syndication | Paramount, Buena Vista Celebrate Strong Premieres

Kathy Johnson Leads NAMIC Through Its Moves

By Sherri Killam-Williams Being part of an evolving trade organization isn’t daunting to Kathy Johnson, executive VP of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications. By the end of 2004 the organization will move its offices to New York from…

Leaping to the Head of Her Field

By Sherri Killam-Williams Setting goals and leaping hurdles is nothing new for Women in Cable & Telecommunications President and CEO Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, a U.S. Olympic gold medalist in the 1984 Los Angeles Games. She is only the second American,…

TW Cable Optimizes Demand Services

With digital video recorders available in 30 of its 31 markets and video-on-demand deployed in all its systems, Time Warner Cable hasn’t played favorites with either new service. Rather, the operator has found that DVRs and VOD work in lockstep…

Women Remain Behind in Cable

WICT Survey Finds Progress Lagging in Pay, Advancement