While Discovery was one of the last programmers out of the gate with a video-on-demand offering last fall, it is making up for lost time with ambitious on-demand plans for 2005. As part of its on-demand growth strategy, Discovery Communications…
Rollout Goal Pleases Markets; Shares Erase Earlier Price Loss
Schadenfreude. Journalists, a competitive lot to be sure, revel in it when it comes to the misfortunes of one of their own. In any newsroom in the country on any given day, you can hear somebody talking about “the groaner”-or…
Bernard “Bernie” Ecclestone, the richest man in the United Kingdom, with a fortune Forbes estimates at more than $3.5 billion, called Los Angeles nearly three years ago to discuss an intriguing business proposal. It involved some U.S. broadcast television rights…
Paul Buccieri has been named to the newly created position of president of programming of Twentieth Television, effective Jan. 17. Bob Cook, president and chief operating officer of Twentieth Television, made the announcement last Friday. Mr. Buccieri will be responsible…
Step away from the printed page, dear readers. The Insider is about to spew. And that gets messy and tends to leave permanent stains. Just joking. Jeff Bader, executive VP of ABC Entertainment, bore the brunt of The Insider’s increasing…
january Jan. 18 Museum of Television & Radio Industry Forum Comedy Central President Doug Herzog will speak, at the Museum of Television & Radio, Beverly Hills. Check-in, 12:45 p.m.; program, 1 p.m. w www.mtr.org Jan. 20-22 HD Expo Workshops: VariCamp…
Comedy Central President Doug Herzog will speak at the Museum of Television & Radio’s Industry Forum Luncheon on Tuesday at the museum’s West Coast facility in Beverly Hills. Check-in is at 12:45 p.m. and the program begins at 1 p.m….
Greg Berlanti The WB really was the network that led the way for me to run a show. I happened to be the only man left standing in the third season of “Dawson’s Creek,” and I had only worked on…
Remember when local telephone service was purchased from one company, long distance from another, Internet access from yet another and cellular calls from a wireless phone provider? This model was supposed to spur competition and innovation. However, from a customer…