Title: President and chief operating officer of the Grass Valley business unit of Thomson Broadcast Solutions, a division of Thomson MultimediaBackground: Mr. Thorsteinson most recently served as CEO of the Grass Valley Group before it was purchased by Thomson Multimedia…
Summer has become a time during which network news divisions stretch their wings. This summer will be no different as CBS’s “48 Hours” again works to make crime pay off ratingswise with murder mysteries on Mondays, and “Dateline NBC” uses…
Don’t jinx him.Mention to J.J. Abrams, creator of “Alias” and “Felicity,” that he’s 2-for-2 when it comes to developing TV series and he gets downright superstitious. “If there’s such a thing as a no-hitter, now I’m doomed,” he said. The…
CBS affiliates expected Viacom President and chief operating officer Mel Karmazin to again tell them, “We suck less” than the other networks at this year’s CBS affiliates meeting. Instead, a more mellow Mel surprised the crowd by saying their network-affiliate…
When “The Shield” debuted to record ratings for Fox’s FX cable channel in March, it was a sweet victory for 38-year-old actor Michael Chiklis, who stars as rogue detective Vic Mackey, leader of the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Strike…
A&E Networks, the History Channel and Atlas Media Corp., a New York-based production company known for its documentaries, are defendants in a California civil suit brought by the estate of the late Donna Reed and five actors who were in…
WB affiliate KPLR-TV has seen an increase in spending by local car dealerships, which the station attributes to its partnership with Web site Carsoup.com.Participating car dealers buy on-air time and put their used-car inventory listings on the Web site. About…
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USA Interactive considering buy of subsidiary shares USA Interactive has proposed spending $4.5 billion to reign in the shares of its publicly traded subsidiaries — Ticketmaster, Hotels.com and Expedia — it doesn’t already own to strengthen its stock and company…
Bonnie and Clyde have hit the road again, but they’re pulling off different kinds of jobs this time.Bonnie & Clyde is the name of the newest truck from Core Digital Technologies in Phoenix, which provides production trucks to the broadcast…