Cable’s early experience with video-on-demand gets a thumbs up from most system operators, programmers and consumers. It is still early in the game, however, and the success of VOD is hardly a sure thing.The idea behind it is simple. Offering…
David Barrett, who heads the company that has the most ABC affiliates in the country, has a message for the network: Slash your prime-time schedule from 22 hours a week to 15 so his stations can make some decent money.“I…
Title: Executive VP, national sales and event marketing, ESPN/ ABC Sports Customer Marketing and Sales Recent interesting deal: “We did a deal with PepsiCo that tapped into many of the ESPN and ABC Sports assets. It included entitlement of the…
Third-quarter network TV ad spending was up 8 percent over the same quarter a year ago, according to preliminary data from Nielsen Monitor-Plus. Overall advertising spending for all media was up 3.8 percent for the same period, with eight of…
When Steve Bornstein abruptly resigned as ABC Television president last May, a lot of people in TV circles had the impression that he would not be replaced.A lot of people were wrong.Beleaguered parent The Walt Disney Co. does intend to…
Fox Broadcasting will have an affiliate in the Portland-Auburn-Waterville, Maine, market for the first time since October 2001 when Toledo, Ohio-based Corporate Media Group acquires WPMX-TV from Paxson Communications in the first quarter of 2003. Max Media of Virginia Beach,…
A couple of months ago a man named Gervaise Roderick Scott, “Roddy” to his friends, died in combat. He was English and grew up on a farm in North Yorkshire, a descendant of C.P. Scott, a giant of British journalism….
Fox will air the second edition of reality hit “American Idol” on Tuesday and Wednesday nights starting in January. The 16-week run kicks off with a 90-minute episode from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, followed the next…
Broadway is getting a tryout on HBO and its sister digital network, HBO Signature. Both will telecast “Direct From Broadway,” a series of live-on-tape Broadway shows, including “Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical” starring David Hasselhoff, “Putting it Together: A Musical…
What it is: Venaca S3, a media asset-management system from Venaca in New York.S3, which stands for “single source solution,” is designed to handle the entire asset-management process, from ingest to storage to transcoding to play-out. It replaces the labor-…