BY MATT KAPKO, RCR Wireless NewsIn a ballroom filled with tech-savvy players in the wireless industry, audio and video problems kept cropping up for each of the five panelists on the “Producing Mobile Content” session at Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live…
“Inside the Actors Studio” host James Lipton will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award given out by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences during the Daytime Emmy celebration. Mr. Lipton, whose early career included stints as a soap opera…
AT&T plans to offer its first three-screen programming project in conjunction with the 2007 Masters Tournament, with content slated for wireless phones, the Internet and TV, the company announced today. The golf event starts April 2.AT&T will offer previews, daily…
Cable industry veteran Jim Chiddix has been tapped as vice chairman of broadband equipment supplier Vyyo.Mr. Chiddix is best known for his 15 years as the chief technology officer at Time Warner Cable. He also served as CEO of interactive…
Internet users spend more time interacting with video ads than image ads, according to a new study from DoubleClick today.Users typically play video ads two-thirds of the way through and they are twice as likely to click “play” on a…
With “Desperate Housewives” in repeats, CBS’s ‘Race-Case-Trace’ lineup and a college basketball championships overrun gave the network a first-place Sunday night win.After a half hour of NCAA overrun, CBS started the night with “60 Minutes” (3.3 rating among adults 18…
The director of Discovery Channel’s controversial “Lost Tomb of Jesus” documentary is rushing to independently release a director’s cut DVD of the program after the network yanked three “Tomb” repeats earlier this month. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici, who created…
National Geographic Channel U.S. named David Haslingden CEO, replacing Laureen Ong, who is joining STAR, the Asian TV company owned by News Corp. as its chief operating officer.Ms. Ong launched Nat Geo for owners News Corp. and National Geographic Ventures…
ESPN is switching ex-quarterbacks in its “Monday Night Football” broadcast booth, putting in Ron Jaworski in place of Joe Theismann.Mr. Jaworski, a long-time football analyst who had been appearing in ESPN’s studio programming, will join Mike Tirico and Tony Kornheiser…
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