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By Staff -- Multichannel News, 4/20/2003 8:00:00 PM
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CAB Recruiters Talk to Three Engineers Win for Piracy Efforts Nat Geo Queues Up Kratts' Show Speed Preps Big-Truck Tour |
CAB Recruiters Talk to Three
New York— The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau's search committee and headhunter Korn/Ferry International interviewed three new candidates for exiting CEO Joseph Ostrow's job, after a candidate turned down the position.
Erica Gruen, formerly of Food Network and Saatchi & Saatchi, turned down an offer for the job, sources said — reminiscent of 1994, when former Saatchi executive Betsy Frank passed on the job that went to Ostrow.
Engineers Win for Piracy Efforts
Syracuse, N.Y.— Engineers at Time Warner Cable's divisions in South Carolina and here took top honors in a case study competition, sponsored by the Broadband & Internet Security Task Force.
Austin Coates of South Carolina won for a three-phase plan to educate consumers and law enforcement about cable theft. Through a "Theft of Service Hot Line," 1,000 illegal decoders were confiscated and $377,000 recovered from 312 criminal cases.
In Glenn Dennee's Syracuse unit, 2,312 of 8,306 unauthorized subscribers have been converted into paying customers over the past two years. At $40 each, that's $92,000 in monthly revenue.
Nat Geo Queues Up Kratts' Show
New York— The Kratt Brothers (PBS's Zoboomafoo) will star in one of several new National Geographic Channel series debuting this fall.
Be the Creature features the brothers living among wild animals. Other new series set to bow include Crittercam, Mission Rescue, Doctors Without Borders, Worlds Apart and Dangerous Jobs.
Speed Preps Big-Truck Tour
Los Angeles— Stealing a page from ESPN and other networks, Speed Channel is working on affiliate tie-in plans for an upcoming multicity tour involving a big, network-branded truck. Speed's "Super Semi-Truck Tour" should hit the promotion road later this year, officials said.
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