IBC awards recognized excellence
Among the honors presented was the IBC2008 International Honor for Excellence, which was awarded to Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG....
Cable operators confident during financial crisis
Americans are more likely to save money by staying at home to watch TV than go out...
Houston’s broadcasters provide information to powerless residents
The city’s four network affiliate television stations turned to the Internet to provide information to stricken viewers...
Motion picture studios team up against iTunes
A coalition of media companies is fighting against piracy with a new copy protection system...
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Equipment vendors weathering the economic stormMany of the smaller companies are striking distribution deals with the larger companies... |
Entertainment executives remain cautious as Wall Street melts down
Ironically, several major media moguls gathered last week in a midtown hotel in New York City for a financial conference sponsored by Goldman Sachs...
Miranda, Pebble Beach Systems partner on automated playout with graphics
The integration is based Pebble Beach’s Neptune automation and Anchor media management and Miranda’s Xchannel playout server...
Telelombardia turns to SeaChange for multichannel playout
The broadcaster is going to air using SeaChange’s Broadcast MediaLibrary/MediaClient (BML/MCL) digital video platform...
Broadcast Engineering announces IBC2008 Pick Hit winners
The IBC Pick Hit Awards winners are chosen by an independent panel of judges made up of working broadcast, production, post, cable and satellite industry professionals...
IBC2008 sets attendance record
The organizers of IBC2008 announced that as of Tuesday afternoon nearly 48,000 people had been admitted to the convention...
NAB opposes ‘quiet period’
At issue are carriage negotiations between local broadcasters and pay television providers...
Google to partner with NBC in TV advertising
The two companies have agreed to work together to tailor the Google TV Ads platform for local markets...
English-language stations oppose analog extension
A dozen stations opposed the DTV Border Fix Act, which allows qualified TV stations within 50mi of the border to broadcast in analog until 2014...
Comcast predicts customer windfall after analog shutoff
The cable TV provider is expecting to add as many as 2 million households after analog television is turned off in February...
NCTA attacks white space spectrum proposal
The NCTA said current proposals for fixed licensed devices could create interference to cable systems...
