Dish Network will take advantage of the Federal Communications Commission’s announcement that Wilmington, N.C., will switch to digital television early by making its DTV-to-analog converter boxes available to the market before the Sept. 8 analog cutoff date, Broadcasting & Cable…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has formally selected Wilmington, N.C., as the test market for the digital transition. “It will help us spot issues that we need to address throughout the country,” Mr. Martin told a Washington news conference…
TBA Global is launching TBA DEEP, a stand-alone division that will develop and distribute branded programming online using a team of 12 experts, Media Daily News reports. Digital Entertainment Engagement Programming, or DEEP, already counts McDonald’s, Ford, Chivas and MTV…
The MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Connecticut is the first advertiser to employ a technology that allows viewers watching high-definition TV to click through to information from the Internet. Horizon Media is working on the project with Backchannelmedia and WCVB-DT,…
LIN Television CEO Vince Sadusky likened the digital television transition to Y2K, telling securities analysts this morning that he believes it will not affect most television viewers, TVNewsday reports. Cable and satellite subscribers, who make up 90% of homes, will…
Flat-screen televisions may be thin, but their manufacturers’ market-share differences in the U.S. are thinner. Samsung, Sony and Vizio ended the first quarter nearly in a dead heat within the surging North American liquid-crystal display television market, according to NPD…
The player: Jim Denney, VP of product marketing at TiVo The play: Mr. Denney spearheaded the digital video recorder maker’s three-year effort to make a machine that can record high-definition content. TiVo, which has about 4 million subscribers, released TiVo…
At least one satellite is weathering the storm. DirecTV said Wednesday that first-quarter earnings rose 10%, largely on more subscribers and less turnover from its high-definition and digital-video recorder services. That signals that DirecTV’s HD channel inventory is helping stave…
Young to Release First Blu-ray Box Set This Fall Neil Young and Reprise/Warner Bros. Records will release the first of multiple retrospective Blu-ray box sets this fall. The set, announced at a Sun Microsystems conference this week because the discs…