Title: Philip Langsdale, CEO of BBC Technology, a media and technology solutions firm that grew out of the British Broadcasting Co. The company provides broadcast, new media and media production technology services. The company is based in London and counts…
What it is: Encoda MART from Encoda Systems is a data reporting software system that enables station groups and networks to consolidate sales data from individual stations.What it does: Encoda MART unifies data reporting from Encoda’s established traffic systems used…
What about Barry?That was the nagging question surrounding USA Networks Chairman Barry Diller as Vivendi Universal fumbled through a top management shake-up last week.Mr. Diller, who is working without a contract as chairman of the newly formed Vivendi Universal Entertainment,…
This year, the upfront is a contact sport, with the big sellers elbowing each other for position in a marketplace that most likely will be up from last year’s disaster but still far below the bounty of the millennium year.So…
Adelphia shares sinkingAdelphia Communications stock continued its free-fall with news that the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a formal investigation into the controlling Rigas family’s $2.3 billion in loans guaranteed by the company to their partnerships. Adelphia stock closed…
Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution has completed a deal with the Tribune station group that includes virtually its entire programming slate and will revive “The Jenny Jones Show” for the fall schedule.“Jenny Jones” was on the verge of being canceled…
Advertising & agenciesGeoff Calnan to VP of broadcast, The Cimarron Group, from executive VP of marketing, UPN.Deborah Donovan to retail development sales manager, Charter Advertising, St. Louis, from management and training consultant, Breakthrough Marketing.BroadcastingCraig Allison to station manager, KSHB-TV, Kansas…
Mia Farrow has been cast to play the mother of the title character in CBS comedy pilot “Julie Lydecker” from Paramount Network TV. Jennifer Crittenden and Phil Rosenthal are executive producing. … Patricia Richardson has joined the cast of Lifetime…
‘Ally McBeal’ canceled by FoxFox has canceled “Ally McBeal,” the quirky series about a female Boston lawyer (Calista Flockhart) whose love life and fantasies divided viewers and critics. The end came just days after the series, which had seen its…
COMEDY8 SIMPLE RULESTouchstone pilot pickup. Auspices: Gamble, Tracy (EP/W pilot); Shadyac, Tom (EP–N/W); Suarez, Flody (EP–N/W); Bostick, Michael (EP–N/W); Cameron, W. Bruce (author); Junger, Gil (D pilot). Talent: John Ritter; Martin Spanjers; Kaley Cuoco; Amy Davidson; Katey Sagal. Logline: Based…