Broadcasting and Cable

1. A Good TV Guide Needs a Good Leader
TV Guide Network/Broadband President Ryan O'Hara seems to be the consummate media executive—degrees from top schools on both coasts, experience abroad, leadership roles in both ...
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2. TMZ Finds MySpace
Just ask any twenty-something: TMZ and MySpace are two great addictions that go great together. TMZ's MySpace TV channel looks like an instant hit—with scarcely ...
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3. Broadcast Flash Attack
Video server and storage vendor SeaChange, which introduced a flash-memory-based server for video-on-demand (VOD) applications last year at the NCTA show, will come to the ...
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4. Sony Touts XDCAM Progress
Sony has completed the development of a new XDCAM HD optical-disc camcorder that has a 2/3-inch imaging chip and will record high-definition video at up ...
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5. NBC's 'Quarterlife' Is Bound for Bravo
The next stop for itinerant Web-to-TV series Quarterlife looks to be Bravo. Sources at NBC—which picked up the Web series about a twenty-something blogger and ...
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6. 'Chris' Finds Love With Nick at Nite
Nick at Nite has acquired CBS' off-net sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris , for a fall 2009 premiere, say sources familiar with the deal. The show ...
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7. Help Wanted, Again: NTIA Chief Splitting
Why is it so hard to find someone to run the crucial DTV-to-analog converter box coupon program? Acting National Telecommunications & Information head Meredith Atwell ...
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8. FTC Chair Jumps To P&G Exec Suite
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras will step down next month to take a position with Procter & Gamble. Majoras, who has been chairman ...
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9. Zucker Vows to End Pilot Waste
It may be business as usual in Hollywood in the wake of the 100-day writers' strike. But NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker reiterated his commitment ...
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10. CEA's Shapiro Backs Extensions
Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro says the government should give viewers more time to cash in their digital-TV-to-analog converter-box coupons than the two-month window.
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