The player: Bob Wilson, senior VP of programming at Cox Communications The play: Mr. Wilson has led closely held Cox Communications’ efforts to compete with satellite operators such as DirecTV by boosting high-definition programming options with both linear channels and…
CBS’ decision to let other programming providers show March Madness games and highlights may not seem so mad after all. CBS, which will broadcast the NCAA basketball tournament from today’s first round through the national championship game on April 7,…
Makers of next-generation DVD players may be thanking the Old World. While analysts debate whether Sony’s Blu-ray victory over Toshiba’s HD DVD format in the high-definition disc player war will unleash a torrent of U.S. customers who’d been waiting on…
HD programming picks for March 20-26: “Being John Malkovich,” “Warren Miller’s Impact,” “Tequila Sunrise” “Being John Malkovich” (Showtime). Friday, March 21, 2:30 p.m. John Cusack, Cameron Diaz and Catherine Keener get downright existential by exploring a portal into the mind…
DirecTV, Dish Say Satellite Setbacks Won’t Dim HD Plans U.S. satellite television leaders DirecTV and Dish Network both said recent satellite-launch setbacks won’t hurt their plans for high-definition channel expansion. DirecTV’s newest satellite, which would expand its national HD channel…
Re-engineering Pods and Remaking Classic Stories
Toshiba Corp. yesterday said fiscal 2007 earnings will be 31% less than previously forecast because of the discontinuation of its HD DVD next-generation disc-player format. Earnings for the year ending March 31 will be 125 billion yen ($1.26 billion), less…
American servicemen and -women overseas will have access to courtroom drama, thanks to a deal that brings Twentieth Television’s “Judge Alex” to the American Forces Network. AFN is a worldwide radio and television network operated by the United States Department…
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the labor union representing more than 70,000 actors, singers, writers, journalists and performers working in entertainment and news media, has ratified a new contract with ABC and CBS for its network journalists,…
NBC is selling two of its owned stations, WTVJ-TV in Miami and WVIT-TV in Hartford, Conn. “We’ve taken a hard look at our portfolio and made some difficult decisions about what’s best for our business going forward,” NBC Local Media…