History is turning a page. The channel is launching a new image campaign this month using the theme “History. Made Every Day.” to highlight its more contemporary programming under Nancy Dubuc, who has been president for 15 months. Powered by…
Video search and targeting firm Digitalsmiths has signed a deal to provide video search for a new Web site that Warner Bros. Television plans to launch in early April. The partnership with Warner Bros. is the first deal Digitalsmiths has…
The writers strike will leave its mark on Cannes this year, as the Mip TV television programming bazaar running there April 7-11 signals the unofficial end of the international sales season. The labor dispute may have caused as much as…
Some cable network executives are optimistic that increased viewing—partly driven by the Writers Guild of America strike that hobbled the broadcasters—will translate into a bonanza in the upfront advertising market. But buyers note that a once red-hot scatter market has…
Hulu, the News Corp.-NBC Universal joint Web-video venture, is winning over viewers but who are these early adopters? Daisy Whitney dug down and found surprising answers about the age profile of Hulu’s audience. Then she dug deeper and found different…
Online video studio For Your Imagination has landed $1 million in seed capital from ConsensusOne Ventures, the companies announced today. The money will help fund FYI’s day-to-day operations as it continues to seek a series A round of funding, FYI…
Analysts Ron Darling and Buck Martinez will join Chip Caray this baseball season on TBS. Mr. Darling is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who won an Emmy Award for his work in broadcasting. He is a radio announcer for…
Online television network Revision3 signed a deal to syndicate its shows to Internet video service blip.tv, the companies announced this week. Under the deal, Revision3 will distribute its entire catalog of Web TV shows to Blip.tv, including “The Digg Reel,”…
Lauren Kelcher, Alexandra Lippin and Paki Newell have been promoted to the position of vice president of the Lippin Group, a Los Angeles-based international public relations consulting firm. Ms. Kelcher, who was hired out of college by the company in…
The Federal Communications Commission is offering a reprieve to satellite providers and a blow to broadcasters in the digital rollout. An order issued today by the FCC gives satellite providers up to four years to air all local broadcasters’ signals…