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Hallmark Gets Original Movie Net Unspools First Telefilms; Flagship Adds Original Series Multichannel News Hallmark Movie Channel will premiere its first original telefilms early next year, while progenitor Hallmark Channel expects to launch its initial original series in the third quarter of 2010. Hallmark Channels senior vice president of programming Barbara Fisher said Hallmark Movie Channel — now in all of the nation’s top-30 DMAs following last week’s launch by Tim..... White Named National Exec Director, Chief Negotiator For SAG <span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial">John McGuire, who had been chief negotiator, will remain as a senior advisor </span> Broadcasting & Cable
The Screen Actors Guild has named David White national executive director and chief negotiator for the union. White had been interim executive director for the past nine months, while John McGuire has been chief negotiator. He will remain as a senior advisor. White and McGuire stepped in after SAG ousted Doug Allen in January. The posting for White, which will be a two-..... Ed Begley's NYC Visit Was A Pedicab Ride From Perfect Multichannel News You know you're a star and in New York City when you see a pedicab with an ad for your show on the back of it — and yet you still can't hail it for a ride. Ed Begley Jr. and his wife, Rachelle Carson, were in Manhattan last week doing media appearances for their show, Living With Ed, which has shifted to Discovery-owned Planet Green from Scripps-owned HGTV. Seas..... Rocco Goes Maverick Multichannel News Mediacom Communications chairman and CEO Rocco Commisso guest lectured at Fordham University in The Bronx, N.Y., last Tuesday (Oct. 13), part of The Cable Center's Cable Mavericks series. He spoke about growing up in The Bronx, his commitment to hard work — completing his MBA at Columbia University while working full-time — and stressed the importance of the entrepreneurial s..... Goldman 'Listening’ To NBCU Talk: Malone Multichannel NewsNew York— Liberty Media chairman John Malone said NBC Universal parent General Electric has instructed its adviser Goldman Sachs to “listen, but not talk” to other parties concerning the still-in-negotiations NBCU-Comcast deal. Malone, speaking to a rapt group of reporters and investors prior to taking the stage at Liberty’s annual investor meeting here ..... Insight Drives Digital Upgrades Multichannel News Insight Communications has completed digital-simulcast upgrades across its footprint — delivering all channel lineups in digital format — and expects to kick its top broadband tier to 30 Megabits per second by the end of 2009. By simulcasting every channel in digital, Insight eventually will be able to free up bandwidth by eliminating the analog versions. That, in turn, wi..... Genachowski: Rules Will Take Time Multichannel NewsFederal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski said he anticipates coming up with new network-neutrality rules will be a “multimonth” process. As he prepares to unveil his hotly-debated proposal this week (see story at right), the chairman says that the “how, when and to what extent” of applying those rules to wireless broadband” — he did ..... Toning Down Loud Ads Vendors Pitch TV Volume-Control Tech Ahead of Federal Law Multichannel News Screaming used-car salesmen on TV may become a thing of past — or, at any rate, they'll likely be shushed. Technology vendors are looking to help cable operators manage the issue of commercials that are substantially louder than the programs that surround them, to prepare for the possibility that the Federal Communications Commission will establish regulations on this fro..... IPTV and Bandwidth Multichannel News We’ll take a break from the lingo of IPTV this week in favor of a more fundamental question: How much bandwidth does it take to send linear and on-demand video over Internet protocol? The short answer: Less. Less than it takes to deliver “traditional” digital television streams, anyway. Why? Three reasons. Reason No. 1: If you’re prepping for video over..... Cisco Gears Up for IP-Address Shift Multichannel News With the supply of addresses for the Internet's current protocol version set to run out in about two years, Cisco Systems is pitching service providers on a “carrier-grade” network-address translation solution to help them move into the future. The current Internet-protocol version — known as IPv4 — provides only 4.29 billion unique addresses. Those are ex..... Liberty Global Will Grow Multichannel News Citigroup cable analyst Jason Bazinet issued a report on international MSO Liberty Global last week after a meeting with company management, adding that the Denver-based company may be poised to outpace its own growth estimates this year. In a research note last week, Bazinet wrote that Liberty Global's 5% to 7% cash-flow-growth estimate for the full year may be conservative, and..... Harsh Reality for Fox News to Shut Down Fox Reality Next March; No Plans for Berth Multichannel News News Corp. will shut down its Fox Reality Channel service next March, although it’s unclear what the company will do with the network’s 47 million subscribers. The four-year old network, which focused mostly on developing original reality content, will cease to develop new shows on or around March 31, according to News Corp. officials. “With the changing ca..... Smarter Traffic Pattern Vendors seek to cut costs and maximize revenues in tough ad climate Broadcasting & Cable As broadcasters and cable networks muddle through the current economic downturn, providers of the software used to schedule commercials are fine-tuning their products to minimize the cost and labor associated with ad-sales, scheduling, reconciliation and billing processes. Traffic-system vendors are also trying to help customers maximize revenues with better report..... Mobile DTV: It's Official Broadcasting & Cable A fast-track effort by broadcasters, transmission vendors and consumer electronics manufacturers to create a technical standard for transmitting digital TV signals to cellphones and other mobile devices has come to fruition, with the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) announcing Oct. 16 that it approved the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard. “This is a historic day, and not jus..... Nets Seek RicherShow Sites Targeted ad buys drive shift of resources Broadcasting & Cable In an about-face indicative of uncertain business models and the fight for Internet profits, networks have begun shifting more time and resources toward building uniqueness into their series' Websites. It's a move welcomed by advertisers who covet the specialty, targeted buys of ads linked to popular shows, as opposed to more department store-like aggregate video sites. Ironically..... Brian Williams: Leno Yes, Twitter No Nightly News anchor talks ratings, Diane and his latest gig Broadcasting & Cable As he prepares to host the Oct. 20 Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame gala at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, NBC's Brian Williams does so from a position of strength. Nightly News With Brian Williams has been the most-watched evening newscast for 51 of the last 52 weeks (as of the week ending Oct. 11), and has topped ABC's World News With Charles Gibson f..... Genachowski on Net Neutrality, Broadband Chairman's far-ranging plans also cover media ownership and kids TV Broadcasting & Cable FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski tells B&C that the commission has approached broadcasters about ways to free up more spectrum for mobile broadband. He also says he expects to launch the FCC's inquiry into kids TV rules “relatively soon.” He has circulated the proposed inquiry to the other commissioners. An FCC review of its media ownership rules—bro..... Can Off-Cable Get Stations On Track? Buyers and sellers weigh wave of repurposed reality fare Broadcasting & Cable As cash-strapped stations continue to struggle with ever-present programming needs, syndicators have stepped up their first-time off-cable reality show offerings to the broadcast syndication market. But buyers and sellers alike are taking a thoughtful approach to these new acquisitions and their longer-term implications. This year has been the toughest in stations' history. Plu..... Fresno Feels the Pinch Farm aid needed in California breadbasket Broadcasting & Cable Times are tough in the Fresno-Visalia market, but folks were able to forget about their financial struggles for a bit at the recent Big Fresno Fair, which took place Oct. 7-18. ABC O&O KFSN, for one, used the event to tighten its bond with the community, airing its noon news and a trio of early evening newscasts directly from the fairgrounds each day. “It's a big draw for the..... Thierer Named President of the Project & Freedom Foundation Succeeds Ferree, who remains senior fellow, board member Broadcasting & Cable
Adam Thierer, senior fellow and director of the Project & Freedom Foundation's Center for Digital Media Freedom, has been named president of the foundation.He succeeds Ken Ferree.....
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