Media - Broadcast

Jan. 23, 2006 issue - Recently the consumer Electronics Show filled up Las Vegas with more than 130,000 people and countless cell phones, camcorders, flash drives, car stereos, MP3 players and porn stars. In a State of the Industry speech, Gary Shapiro, head of the trade group behind the extravaganza, instructed us to view the "hallowed event": as "a Mecca... a Holy Grail." I have come back to...

WASHINGTON – The Arab news network Al Jazeera announced Thursday that Dave Marash, an award-winning former correspondent for ABC News' "Nightline," is joining its 24-hour English-language network, to be launched this spring. In an interview Thursday, Marash, 63, described his new position as "the most interesting job on Earth." Calling Al Jazeera "a thoroughly respectable news organization,"...

LONDON, Jan. 10 - A British civil servant and a former researcher appeared in court on Tuesday in the latest skirmish of an unfolding legal battle over claims that President Bush proposed bombing Al Jazeera's television headquarters. Mr. Bush's reported remarks were disclosed in a leaked document, the contents of which were published in a British newspaper late last year. The comments raised...

Local TV station Web sites, which have lagged behind competitors during the current Internet advertising boom, are poised to make significant strides over the next decade, particularly given their strength in delivering online video content. That's according to a new Television Bureau of Advertising survey conducted by Borrell Associates, "Benchmarking the Local Website Marketplace," which found...

NEW YORK - The British Broadcasting Corp. will make about 40 video news clips available daily in the United States and Canada for Internet and cell phone subscribers through a deal with ABC News. BBC News producers will choose segments on top world and U.K. news, along with topical items such as entertainment, business and technology news. ABC did not say when it will begin offering the clips. Nor...

NBC, the television business channel, has linked the financial markets of the US, Europe and Asia in the first integrated global programme. Worldwide Exchange, broadcast simultaneously to three continents, has anchors and chief executives talking to each other in New York, London and Singapore. Until now the small delays involved in bouncing the signals up to satellites have been seen as too...

PARIS: The competition stares dead straight into Ulysse Gosset's eyes every moment he sits at his cluttered desk at temporary headquarters near the glassy Seine. Before him flickers a television tuned to Atlanta-based CNN, which 25 years ago created a powerful genre with a 24-hour all-news network that now reaches more than two billion people. For other countries, such global power is as...

The opening numbers of Rajdeep Sardesai's "journalist's channel" - CNN-IBN - are here and at least for the week in question, the numbers spell good news for the English news genre itself. Even though ratings might not be the final deciding factor, for a channel like this, it has a role to play in indicating what the Indian viewer, especially the relevant target, feels about the channel. Before we...

Every now and then, there is talk within the media that a certain nationality dominates within the establishments of Arab satellite news channels. Some believe that the employees of that nationality form a mafia like group that rejects employees of other nationalities or undermines them to the extent that they do not achieve either success or popularity in the same way that those of the dominant...

While media agencies continue to say that the sweeps are outdated, there is a belief--after the end of the November sweeps--among agency executives that ABC is the network with the greatest momentum. And this perception should help the network continue to bring in the highest-priced scatter ad dollars as the season continues. ABC not only tied CBS for a November sweeps victory in the adults 18-49...