The player: Martin Brown, video product marketing manager at Daktronics The play: Mr. Brown has helped Daktronics become the preeminent high-definition scoreboard maker for Major League Baseball. The Brookings, S.D.-based company has made or is making the primary scoreboards at…
HD programming picks for Aug. 21-27: “Remember the Titans,” Little League World Series, “Dazed and Confused” “Remember the Titans” (Starz). Fri., Aug. 22, 8 p.m. Denzel Washington stars as the coach of a 1971 Virginia high school football team that…
Sony, Toshiba to Outsource More LCD TVs to Taiwan Sony and Toshiba both will have more of their liquid-crystal display television sets built in Taiwan, Reuters says, citing Nikkei Business Daily. Sony has an agreement with Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision…
Atlanta-based Gray Television announced Wednesday that J. Mack Robinson is stepping down as chairman and CEO of the station group with which he has been associated since 1993. Mr. Robinson’s son-in-law, Gray board Vice Chairman Hilton H. Howell Jr., will…
Comcast Entertainment Group has signed a new multiyear agreement with Ryan Seacrest. The deal expands Seacrest’s television and new-media production business across Comcast’s networks through his independent production company, Ryan Seacrest Productions. The production company will develop programming for Comcast…
SoapNet will air a 24-hour marathon of the original “Beverly Hills, 90210” on Sept. 1 starting at midnight. Twenty-four episodes from the show’s first four seasons will be featured. The marathon is in anticipation of the premiere of The CW’s…
“The Early Show” executive producer Zev Shalev has named Anthony Batson a senior producer on the CBS morning show, effective Sept. 22. Mr. Batson, an award-winning veteran of eight years with “48 Hours Mystery,” will oversee taped “Early Show” segments…
NBC Universal had made an agreement to acquire U.K. independent production company Carnival Film & Television. Carnival is the first acquisition by NBC Universal’s International TV Production division as the company moves to expand its production presence outside the U.S….
Celebrities are playing in online video these days and they’re not just doing viral spoofs. Big name stars are signing up for Web series and that’s starting to change the game for digital media producers. For more details, check out…
SlamBall has signed a series of multiplatform content-distribution agreements for the 2008 SlamBall Championship Series. The title SlamBall game will be broadcast exclusively on CBS on Nov. 2. Eight regular-season games will be available on national sports network Versus on…