“Chairman Powell’s actions will certainly help move along the transition to digital. By mandating digital tuners in televisions, digital TV set penetration will increase at a greater rate and consumers will no longer be confused as to what to buy.”Michael…
Voice, animation Emmys announcedHBO grabbed three of the four Emmys in the voice-over performance and individual achievement in animation categories, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced last week. These juried award categories, which have no nominations, will be…
Cox Communications today launches the first cable trial of an ad-supported video-on-demand service with marketers that include Coca-Cola’s Diet Coke, Kraft Foods, Sony Music Entertainment’s Epic Records label and Volvo North America. Cox, the country’s fifth-largest cable operator, is introducing…
What’s your all-time favorite CBS TV series? We’re commemorating CBS’s 75 years of broadcasting on Sept. 2 and we’d love to know. The Tiffany network can claim some of the most beloved shows ever on TV. To name a few:…
NBC and Fox are seeing the early benefits of having more original programming on their summer schedules: Awareness levels for many of their new fall shows are on par with awareness levels for spinoffs with built-in brand recognition.Electronic Media obtained…
Title: VP, software engineering, Pioneer Digital Technologies, a division of Pioneer North America.Background: Mr. Krakirian joined Pioneer five years ago after having spent three years as director of engineering with Time Warner Cable Broadband Applications, where he was deeply involved…
As TV stations continue to transition to digital and slowly jettison tapes from their repertoire, they are learning that going tapeless has its own set of challenges. Being completely tapeless is a bit of a misnomer, since tapes are still…
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a new regulation that would require cable operators that carry a broadcaster’s DTV signal to carry virtually all the free programming offered over the channel, sources said.Under the agency’s existing rule, cable operators that…
A year ago, KSNW-TV declared it would bench traditional sports segments. There would be no more blah, blah, blah wrap-ups of scores and game recaps eating up three or four minutes of the last block of local news time.Al Buch,…
Sweat, Ca-a-a-rolineThe hottest party in New York last week was Telepictures Productions’ launch party for “The Caroline Rhea Show,” thanks to the heat-and-humidity wave gripping the city and thanks to the guest quotient. The tent on the penthouse terrace at…