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Herb Scannell's 5-Year Plan at BBC America
Herb Scannell, overseer of BBC America among other BBC properties in the U.S., says the network is ready to spend the coin needed to increase ratings, diversify the program mix and generally capitalize...
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A Diva Fixing America Targets TV
Lynn Tilton has been good to small-town America, buying and rebuilding failed manufacturing businesses and preserving jobs.The question now is: Will she make good reality TV? Tilton is CEO of Patriarch...
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Systems Ready For 'Super' Sunday
Time Warner Cable’s Wisconsin operations have close ties with the local National Football League franchise, the Green Bay Packers. Wide receiver Donald Driver has done ads for the system, and defensive...
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Packer Pride On Display
Time Warner Cable’s Wisconsin operations have close ties with the local National Football League franchise, the Green Bay Packers. Wide receiver Donald Driver has done ads for the system, and defensive...
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Snow Day TV
School’s out (for some) in N.Y.C., giving me a chance to make some TV recommendations.I’ve been watching The Weather Channel, natch, and SportsCenter sent an anchor out to the parking lot in Bristol,...
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ESPN's Wolff ‘Delivers' For Local Kids
New York — Russell Wolff, the million-mile-a-year head of ESPN International, is being celebrated for charitable work at the world’s biggest locally based philanthropy.Honoree of the year at...
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Keeping the Customer Happy
Could personalized video billing help cable operators make their customers happy? That’s one of the things vendor Amdocs is looking into in relation to its sponsorship of the Cable Center Customer Care...
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Welcome, Canadian Capital
The U.S. cable industry, for all the increased competition and agita over programming costs and youthful cord-cutting, is a proven money-maker for private investors.It has even inspired a new influx of...
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Demanding Viewers Want To Know
I’ve been thinking a lot about video on demand lately. I’ve also been using it. Both of which put me in a very committed minority.Olympics or HD cable shows crowding your DVR? Nuke some recent ones and...
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Help Hold Up 'Half the Sky'
Help Hold Up 'Half the Sky'The same day last week the WICT executive women’s luncheon talked up the value of women’s voices in making corporate decisions, over at the Ford Foundation, reporter Nick...
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