In “Cable advertising gains new flexibility with technology” (EM, June 17), Visible World and Adlink worked together to deploy the recent 1-800-Flowers.com campaign in the Los Angeles market. The Adlink interconnect uses servers from nCube. SeaChange is working with Visible…
The Promax & BDA Conference & Exhibition in Los Angeles this week will meet some of the television industry’s toughest issues head on with inspirational speakers and back-to-basics sessions aimed at raising ratings and revenue.The event’s location has enabled organizers…
Direct TV has started adding commercials to pay-per-view movies. Another little barrier falls. Even though you’re paying to see the film-paying presumably for the privilege of watching it unedited and free of commercials-some movies now come with ads attached to…
Armed with the slogan “Talk means more from a man of action,” NBC Enterprises is on the verge of a continental assault in its effort to promote upcoming talk strip “The John Walsh Show.”The company announced to stations carrying the…
See publication for the following listings:Demographic ratings: Broadcast Prime Time, SyndicationNight-by-night Nielsen Prime-time ratings for the week of June 10-16Ratings for the week of June 10-16
WBOC and WHRO ‘at war’ over digital CBS affiliate WBOC-TV, Salisbury, Md., filed a complaint on June 11 with the Federal Communications Commission that was an “emergency request to seek immediate relief from harmful interference,” claiming the digital signal of…
Wednesday, June 2612:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Keynote: Small Screen, Big Picture 1 Speaker: Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO, Turner Broadcasting System.Mr. Kellner founded the Fox Network and The WB Television Network. Today he heads Turner Broadcasting System, taking charge…
Efforts to get the story out faster can lead to shortcuts on safety-and this means danger in the workplace for thousands of electronic-news-gathering workers and bystanders where news happens. There have been many accidents attributed to news van antennas hitting…
It’s round two in the increasingly bitter battle between the Television Bureau of Advertising and the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau over the issue of alternative delivery systems, primarily direct broadcast satellite, and the effect of ADS on wired cable penetration.The CAB…
Putting deregulation on indefinite hold, Federal Communications Commission officials last week confirmed that the agency won’t decide whether to relax any of its broadcast ownership rules, including one barring newspapers from buying radio or TV stations in the same market,…