High-definition DVDs will account for the majority of the DVD sales market by 2015, according to a new study from Kagan Research. Today, standard-definition DVDs account for $16.8 billion of the $16.9 billion home-video sales market. By 2009, hi-def DVDs…
The player: Daniel Tibbets, executive VP of GoTV Networks, a producer and aggregator of mobile television content for cellphones. The play: The mobile TV audience grew to 3.7 million subscribers in the second quarter of this year, up 45 percent…
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A local station in Anchorage, Alaska, found that even a simple solution to a community problem can be hard to implement when deep-pocketed interests are threatened. KTUU-TV, Anchorage’s NBC affiliate, won a small-market UNITY award for its three-part series “Toothaches…
By Allison J. WaldmanSpecial to TelevisionWeek At this week’s Leaders of Spanish-Language Television awards presentation in New York, some might look at honoree and think she’s too young to receive such a prestigious award. That might be true if not…
After 18 Years on the Air, Talk Show Host Cristina Saralegui Is a Brand All Her Own
By Allison J. WaldmanSpecial to TelevisionWeek When Saúl Lisazo was lining up a corner kick for Brazil’s Juventus soccer team, he never dreamed that someday he’d be receiving a special Emmy en Español from the National Academy of Television Arts…
TelevisionWeek is trawling video-sharing Web sites to find the hottest clips spreading on the Internet. The setup: Want to know what two very young, very rich, very happy guys look like? Like a garage band from Silicon Valley, that’s what….