If it were up to Wall Street, Everest Connections Corp. would be on the auction block or the scrap heap of telecom startups. But here on Main Street-specifically the suburbs of Kansas City, Mo.-people are embracing this bundler of video,…
“Politicians and [TV] have a sweet deal: The industry hands the politicians millions of dollars, and the politicians give much of it back to pay for campaign commercials. The only ones left out are the people that own the broadcast…
Fox Broadcasting Co. is pricing an integrated marketing package at $26 million for the sophomore season of “American Idol,” the highest for any reality show.The previous record was held by “Survivor,” which asked as many as nine sponsors to pony…
Digital cable network Fine Living is poised to announce a deal that will put a two-hour daily afternoon block of its programming on local-community broadcast stations in some of the United States’ top vacation resort markets.The advertising-supported broadcast block is…
Liberate Technologies last week announced plans for an on-demand music channel and detailed its new technical direction in the wake of its recent Sigma Systems acquisition.The company has partnered with Signatures Network to create on-demand music programming for digital networks….
ABC, CBS and NBC made a big mistake last week not broadcasting President Bush’s speech about the possibility that the United States will go to war against Iraq.On Monday evening, Oct. 7, Mr. Bush delivered a scheduled speech at the…
Banfield canceledNew York-In changes announced Friday, MSNBC has canceled “Ashleigh Banfield on Location” effective immediately and named “Dateline NBC” executive producer Marc Rosenwasser to temporarily supervise the news channel’s 7 p.m.-to-11 p.m. prime-time programming. Also, Phil Griffin will become VP…
Barbara “Bo” ArgentinoExecutive vice president, advertising sales, Sony Pictures TelevisionAlthough she keeps a relatively low profile compared with other women of power in the TV industry, “Bo” Argentino gets a lot done behind the scenes. She is responsible for sales…
Title: Executive VP, video-on-demand and pay-per-view, Warner Home VideoBackground: Mr. Calman, who trained as an opera singer at Juilliard, joined Warner Bros. in 1980, working on financial analysis of pay TV models. At the time, the pay TV business was…
Along with their pens, notebooks, laptops and satellite phones, the correspondents, producers, editors and camera crews who are deployed to potential war zones are packing gas masks, flak jackets, helmets, biological and chemical suits and extreme first-aid supplies. They’re also…