The 25th annual Walter Kaitz Foundation dinner in New York Wednesday raised $1.7 million to support cable TV industry diversity programs, foundation executive director David Porter Jr. said. Organizations supported by the Kaitz Foundation supports organizations including the Emma Bowen…
HD programming picks for Sept. 18-24: “The Great American Motorcycle,” “Farm Aid 2008,” “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid” “The Great American Motorcycle” (HD Theater). Fri., Sept. 19, 9 p.m. Get your motor runnin’ and head out on the highway…
The player: Ed Delaney, VP of operations at YES Network The play: Mr. Delaney, an original employee at YES (Yankees Entertainment and Sports) starting in 2001, helped lead the network’s high-definition improvements, including the telecasting of all New York Yankees…
While Blu-ray disc players promise the ultimate in picture clarity for movie-disc buyers with high-definition televisions, the prognosis is murkier for how fast the next-generation players will be adopted in the U.S. Global sales of stand-alone Blu-ray players will triple…
Economic crisis? What economic crisis? Despite a mortgage-related meltdown that has shaken up Wall Street this week and may have compounded consumer fears of an ailing U.S. economy, high-definition television sales are unlikely to slow. Prices continue to fall thanks…
‘X-Files’ Movie Marks Fox’s Interactive DVD Debut “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” will be Fox Home Entertainment’s first interactive DVD when it’s released in December. The film’s BD-Live features will allow Internet-connected watchers to access special features as well…
The fourth annual New York Television Festival has announced the winners of its independent pilot competition. Dan Levy and Steve Basilone’s “Below the Law” was named best comedy pilot, while “Hit Factor,” created by Jamie Rosenblatt and Neil Hopkins, took…
The Federal Communications Commission has released several TV PSAs and a long-form educational video to help viewers prepare for the digital television transition. The 30- and 60-second PSAs, produced in both English and Spanish, have been distributed to 1,368 full-power…
Tribune Broadcasting’s New York CW affiliate CW11/WPIX has made bilingual entertainment network LATV available through cable and telco systems in the tri-state area. Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Verizon and Comcast digital subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut now…
In this week’s Backlot Talk for the HBO series “Entourage,” series creator and showrunner Doug Ellin talks about the importance of a scene in episode two between Ari (Jeremy Piven) and Mark Wahlberg. Ellin also tells why a quiet confrontation…