What it is: A universal conversion platform from Snell & Wilcox that converts video back and forth between high definition and standard definition, taking into account different frame rates, image sizes and aspect ratios. The product is designed for use…
We are about to allow the elimination of one of the most valuable assets we have for reaching out to our citizens in times of emergency. The free over-the-air television service that we all take for granted as always being…
A week ago, Reading Rainbow won the Emmy as Best Children’s Series for the third year in a row, bringing its total number of Emmys to 18 in 19 seasons. PBS ranks it as the program most used as a…
Gannett Broadcasting’s WTSP-TV in the Tampa-St. Petersburg DMA has run its Tools for School supply drive with sponsor Publix Super Markets for the past 11 years. Collection boxes are placed in more than 130 supermarkets in a nine-county area. Consumers…
Cameron Diaz is beautiful, right? After all, the green-eyed blonde has been a regular on People magazine’s list of the most beautiful people in the world. However, the magazine’s editors-and most of the Western world-do not have a high-definition TV….
Producer Tom Fontana tossed a party last week in honor of B.D. Wong, the actor (Law & Order) who proves to be an utterly charming, engaging, inventive and affecting writer in Following Foo: The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man…
Over the course of his 24 years with NBC, the newly named chief operating officer of NBC-owned Telemundo, Don Browne, has become known for thinking outside entrenched boxes.“Everybody’s told me all along, `You can’t do this. You can’t do that,”’…
For weeks, the Big 4 broadcast networks and their conglomerate bosses have held top-secret meetings involving an array of sports, programming and finance executives to crunch numbers, prepare projections and determine the value of synergistic assets and broadcast platforms. It’s…
Tracy Tragos had a screenwriting degree in hand and was just starting to churn out spec scripts when a powerful urge drove her to make a documentary film. After making a chance discovery about her father, who died in Vietnam…
In a significant blow to the Hollywood studios, GOP Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado last week vetoed legislation that critics charge could have seriously jeopardized the ability of consumers to use digital recording devices in their homes.At least according to…