Vanguard Awards: Following Father’s Path
Comcast’s Roberts Honored for Leadership
In Depth
As Ratings Cool, Execs Reconsider the Hiatus
Networks Learn: He Who Hesitates Is ‘Lost’
With Cable’s Success Comes Responsibility
The kickoff of the Cable Show in Las Vegas this week provides a convenient time of reckoning for the cable industry. The numbers are instructive: Cable providers’ investment in infrastructure has doubled in the past 10 years to a projected…
Viral Video: Nice Butt
TelevisionWeek is trawling video-sharing Web sites to find the hottest clips spreading on the Internet. Visit TVWeek.com to view the latest. The setup: Move over, Britney. There’s a new viral-video star in town and the name’s Tyra. But get this:…
Preparing Now for the Digital TV Transition
When the calendar turns to Feb. 17, 2009, the United States will complete its transition to digital TV and broadcasters will shut off their analog TV spectrum. While 2009 may be a distant thought right now, the industries involved in…
Coming of Age in Digital Era
Stand-Alone Channels a Thing of the Past
Proving Cable Is a Service Industry
Every year at the Cable Show, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association presents its Vanguard Awards to individuals “who have made the cable and telecommunications industry what it is today-the best of the creators, the innovators and the risk-takers.” Receiving…
In Defense of Larry Tisch
This is to add perspective to your “25 Years of Insight” column describing “Laurence Tisch’s wholesale budget cuts” at CBS News (“Glancing Back Over 25 Years,” TelevisionWeek, April 23). Unfairly, Larry keeps getting blamed for economies at CBS News that…
Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps
The player: Alex Blum, CEO of KickApps The play: KickApps provides Web sites with a full suite of social media tools to enable social networking, widgets, user-generated video and content syndication. Site owners can pick and choose the social media…
PBS Sprout Grows Into Afternoon Slot
PBS Kids Sprout, which has been saying “Good Night” to kids in the evenings, is looking to get them going in the afternoons. Preschooler network Sprout, a partnership of Comcast, PBS, Sesame Workshop and HIT Entertainment, is planning to launch…