Goodbye tape. Hello IP packet.Showtime is the latest content provider to partner with a satellite distribution company to deliver its on-demand content digitally to cable system headends. The network will use N2 Broadband’s MediaPath solution this summer to distribute content…
Connie Chung spent last week putting the big pieces in place for her new show, “Connie Chung Tonight,” which debuts at 8 p.m. (ET) Monday on CNN.What those pieces are exactly, Ms. Chung wasn’t saying. She’s too competitive to tip…
Free airtime legislation announced last week by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would impact broadcasters unevenly, leaving some potentially overwhelmed with requests to run political ads.The measure doesn’t offer relief, for example, to television and radio stations in large markets such…
Some of the media mergers that have commanded the most flashy investor premiums and press coverage in recent years may not have been such good ideas after all.While that may seem obvious now, with media company valuations scraping the bottom…
Mindrocket Media, a newly bannered San Francisco kids programming company, has more than a cat in its hat. The producer of preschool-age educational programming, formerly known as JP Kids, has acquired the rights from Theodor Seuss Geisel’s estate to develop…
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…
Court upholds termination of cross-ownership ban A federal appeals court in Washington today upheld its decisions terminating the cable-broadcast cross-ownership ban and remanding the 35 percent broadcast ownership cap to the Federal Communications Commission for more justification. The decision was…
This week’s personnel moves As president of original programming at HBO, Chris Albrecht has overseen development of one of the most envied series lineups on television. (See Albrecht: Life on the edge) Stephanopoulos to solo on ABC’s ‘This Week’ George…
Jeremy Northam will star as Dean Martin opposite Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis in CBS’s telefilm “Martin & Lewis.” Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are executive producing the film from Storyline and Columbia TriStar Domestic Television in association with St….