Recently added articles from Multichannel News:
Coda.(Obituary)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Staff VOD Push for 'Alt Games' Mike Reynolds New York -- CBS College Sports Network and 17 affiliates will give sports fans alternative views this summer. Continuing its video-on-demand push, CBS College Sports and its distribution partners ...
Nets Take on Web Video.(PROMAX&BDA (Los Angeles, California))
Jun 22, 2009; ... by David Tanklefsky Programmer Panelists Also Discuss Economy, Branding Issues New York-- Cable programmers continued their public conversation about putting content online for free and the need to identify viable revenue streams for online content during a session at ...
3-D Not Ready for Primetime.(ESPN Inc.)(National Football League)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Mike Reynolds New York-- While sold on the virtues of the high-definition format, executives on a Promax/BDA panel here last week were more guarded in their appraisal of 3-D as a game-changer for sports programming. Mark Waller, senior vice president sales and ...
Down But Not Out.(PPV Network)
Jun 22, 2009; ... By R. Thomas Umstead Boxing Hangs Tough on PPV With Rising Stars, Marketing Shift When boxing champion Floyd "Money" Mayweather postponed his July 18 fight with Juan Manuel Marquez due to a rib injury, he singlehandedly dealt a body blow to the pay-per-view boxing ...
Retrans Feuds Ease Up.(Mediacom Communications Corp.)(Time Warner Cable Inc.)(Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.)(Univision Communications Inc.)( C )
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Mike Farrell Era of Feuding May Be Over, Analysts Say -- At Least for Big MSOs Broadcasters and pay TV service providers may have informally turned down the retransmission-consent volume over the past several months, as the nation moved through some potentially ...
Analyst: Bundle Overhyped.(DirecTV Group )(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Mike Farrell Pali Research media analyst Richard Greenfield initiated coverage of DirecTV Group with a "buy" rating and a $32-per-share 12-month price target last Monday, adding that the strength of the cable-TV bundle of voice video and data is overhyped. In a ...
Benita Mosley's Work at WICT.(Women in Cable Telecommunications)(Occupation overview)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Staff After Eight Years of Working for Women, Trade Group Chief Moves On When this month draws to a close, it will mark the end of one era and the start of another for Women in Cable Telecommunications. That's because, after eight years at WICT's helm, CEO Benita ...
Mosley Looks Back -- and Ahead.(USA Track and Field Inc.)(Interview)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by John Eggerton When it was announced that she would be leaving Women in Cable Telecommunications, Benita Fitzgerald Mosley spoke with Multichannel News 's John Eggerton about the legacy she leaves behind and new challenges ahead as she transitions to her new role as chief of ...
Gol TV-ESPN Deal Aids 'Liga'.(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Mike Reynolds Deal Will Double Spanish Soccer Circuit's Stateside Reach Via Deuce, Deportes Gol TV has passed off some of its rights to Spain's top soccer circuit to ESPN and, as a result, La Liga will almost double its match exposure in the U.S. In ...
Comcast Buys Rest of NECN.(Cable News Network)(Hearst Corp.)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Mike Farrell Boston-- Comcast said last Thursday (June 18) that it has acquired the remaining 50% interest it didn't already own in New England Cable News from Hearst Corp., for an undisclosed sum. NECN, the largest 24-hour regional news network with more than 3 ...
Canoe Sinks Zone Ad Plan.(Canoe Ventures LLC)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Todd Spangler Verklin: First Crack at Addressable Spots Was Too Inflexible Canoe Ventures has deep-sixed its first attempt to deliver cable TV ads to different subscribers based on where they live. The company, a joint venture of the six biggest cable ...
DirecTV, NBCU Advance on The Ad Front.(NBC Universal Inc.)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Todd Spangler Sets Goal of Launching Targeted Local Ads by '11 DirecTV and NBC Universal last week took separate steps toward improving the odds that the right TV ads will get in front of the right viewers. The satellite-TV operator by 2011 is aiming to ...
Allen Sells Out for Hundreds.(Charter Communications Inc.)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Mike Farrell Charter Mogul Unloads 28.5 Million Shares in MSO for $996 About 10 years after Charter Communications went public in 1999, Paul Allen's estimated $7 billion investment in the 5 million video-subscriber cable company didn't reap him enough to buy a ...
Broadband Services Prove Resilient.(Survey)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Todd Spangler About 63% of U.S. adults subscribe to broadband services, and they seem more willing to cut back on cable TV than to scale back Internet service to save cash. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's latest survey on broadband ...
Genachowksi: Focus On the Unserved.
Jun 22, 2009; ... by John Eggerton Washington-- President Obama's choice to run the FCC, Julius Genachowski, one of the architects of the administration's technology policy, promised Congress last week that he would run a transparent, consumer-focused agency that would look to capitalize on ...
TNA Jumps Into the Broadband Ring.(TNA Entertainment)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by R. Thomas Umstead Nashville-based pro wrestling outfit TNA will look to pin down Web viewers with a new on-demand subscription Internet offering. The network's Video Vault (www.tnavideovault.com ) Web site provides access to all of the seven-year-old company's ...
A Sporting Life: Fox's Bob Thompson.(Fox National Cable Sports Networks)(Interview)
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Mike Reynolds Bob Thompson began his career in cable in 1981 as a marketing rep for Storer Communications outside Portland, Ore. Over the years, he took on increasing responsibilities across an array of disciplines from installation and operations to ad sales and ...
Talkback.(Letter to the editor)
Jun 22, 2009 ... by Staff Nielsen Effort No Guessing Game To the editor: We need to correct a few errors in your June 15 cover story entitled "Thinking Inside the Box." The story describes Nielsen's methodology as "an antiquated polling process that tries to ...
Why '09 Is Tru2way's Boom Year.
Jun 22, 2009; ... by Jeff Bonin, Alticast One of the great untold success stories in today's flat consumer-electronics market is Tru2way, an interactive technology platform that is already changing how we watch television and driving demand for new products and services. The momentum ...
People.(AECG appoints Jonathan Axelrod )(Breakthrough Entertainment appoints Kate Blank )(Burkat and Co. appoints Howard Burkat )
Jun 22, 2009 ... by Staff AECG Jonathan Axelrod has been named chief operating officer of AECG, a Los Angeles-based music production firm serving TV and film. He had been an independent TV and film producer. Breakthrough Toronto-based programming sales and ...