South Bend stations have found profitable ways to promote charity and volunteerism in their communities. This fall marks the third year of the “22 Ways of Giving” campaign for WSBT-TV Channel 22, a 50-year-old Schurz Communications-owned CBS affiliate.“We have a…
Washington-EchoStar Communications and DirecTV have offered to help Cablevision Systems create a viable competitor to a merged EchoStar and DirecTV satellite TV service in order to gain government approval for the merger.The companies, in Federal Communications Commission filings made available…
After the umpteenth story about Don Hewitt’s reluctance to pack it in at “60 Minutes” appeared in print last week, you couldn’t go to any gathering of TV types without running into a joke that invoked the name of the…
The eyes of Texas soon will be joined by those of the national TV audience, if a prominent cable programming distribution company has bet right.Cable Ready, the 10-year-old distribution company that reps producers and program libraries and specializes in selling…
Political candidates reached out to Hispanic voters in greater numbers during the recent mid-term elections, spending more than $16 million on Spanish-language TV advertising, according to a report by Adam Segal, director of the Hispanic Voter Project at Johns Hopkins…
At this moment, there are probably more burglars inside American homes than digital video recorders. But if you listen to network executives, there’s more to fear from a TiVo than a thief. The execs say that DVRs, which are now…
Title: President and general counsel, California Cable & Telecommunications Association, and founding director, Walter Kaitz FoundationBackground: Mr. Kaitz is a longtime cable executive and a second-generation industry veteran. He has been in the cable television business since the 1960s. His…
The alphabet soup technologies of the cable business-VOD, SVOD and PVR-might be the flavors of the month, but high-speed Internet access is a bona fide winner. Consumer appetite for new technology has indicated that high-speed Internet and the platform that…
“Comcast will be able to largely determine America’s digital destiny. That’s why we encourage everyone-in and out of the industry-to fight for an open and democratic cable broadband system.”Jeff Chester, executive director, Center for Digital Democracy“Time will tell. Mega-mergers like…
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…