Time Warner Entertainment settlement terms AOL Time Warner will pay AT&T-Comcast $2.1 billion in cash, $1.5 billion in AOL Time Warner stock and a 24 percent stake in a new publicly traded Time Warner Cable (to be formed in 2003)…
KFVE dropping UPNLos Angeles-UPN’s vacation in Hawaii has ended. KFVE-TV, which aired both UPN and The WB in Honolulu, will drop UPN programming Sept. 2, sources have confirmed. Fox affiliate KHON-TV and CBS affiliate KGMB-TV will pick up some UPN…
Job candidates at TV stations throughout the United States can now step to the head of the line if they speak both English and Spanish.As the Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow each year, bilingualism has become…
CNN has obtained a video library of terrorist training tapes belonging to Osama Bin Laden and plans to begin airing reports on them today. Topics such as how to assassinate someone, how to take hostages and how to make pure…
Eisner buys Disney sharesThe Walt Disney Co. Chairman and CEO Michael Eisner spent $10 million of his own money to acquire 725,000 shares of Disney stock on the open market last Thursday at prices ranging from $13.55 to $14.49 per…
The road to digital conversion may be slow going for TV stations, but it isn’t for satellite trucks. That’s because the major feed services have finished or are in the final stages of completing upgrades of satellite trucks at their…
Urban Hispanic Americans are an “untapped digital cable market,” according to “Focus: Latino II,” a new research report from Horowitz Associates that will be unveiled at the ninth annual Ethnic Marketing Conference in Chicago, Sept. 25 to Sept. 27. That’s…
Nielsen to update estimates Nielsen Media Research will release updated national universe estimates for the 2001-2002 season on Sept. 1. Those estimates are derived from new U.S. Census Bureau data, compiled in the 2000 census but only released last March,…
What it is: HugeMediaLibrary, a shared media access storage system geared for the audio and video market, from Huge Systems in Agoura Hills, Calif.How it works: The storage system is designed for multiple users sharing video. Newsroom environments and post-production…
nCUBE, Lifetime ad insertion systemnCUBE and Lifetime Movie Network have deployed an ad insertion system that allows for both analog and digital ad insertion from the same server. According to nCube, it is the first commercial rollout of a digital-to-digital…