Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead is programming editor for Multichannel News. During his nearly two decade tenure at the weekly publication, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from technology and marketing to content distribution.
Umstead has also served as a contributing editor to Cablevision and Video Business magazines, penning editorial columns on sports, programming and pay-per-view-related issues. For more information, contact R. Thomas Umstead at tumstead@reedbusiness.com
Title: Programming Editor
Email: tumstead@reedbusiness.com
Picture ThisLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Boxing Takes Jab At Instant ReplaySaturday’s Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto fight will be historic in at least one sense: it will be the first pay-per-view boxing event that will feature the use of instant replay to settle a potentially controversial fight conclusion. While the sports world over the past few weeks has been debating about instant replay playing a greater role in Major League Baseball games,... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Weathering The StormThe National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications kicks off day two of its 23rd Annual Conference in Denver this morning amidst the potential threat of a major snowstorm that is projected to drop up to a foot of snow in the city. The diversity-tinged organization is already trying to weather a business storm created by the slow recovering economy and the conference’s move... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (0) Sports Gets Ratings Game OnDuring a recent industry luncheon, I overheard a lively discussion between two cable-sports executives regarding the reasons behind the knockout ratings live sports telecasts have generated for cable so far this fall. One exec said sports, unlike any other genre, provides unique, unscripted and in-your-face home-entertainment value to consumers looking to maximize their leisure dollars in a... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (8) BET, Mo'Nique Wake Up Late NightBET may have found itself a late night ratings queen in actress/comedian Mo’Nique. BET’s late night variety series The Mo’Nique Show drew 1.5 million viewers in its Oct. 5 debut , increasing the network’s audience from a year ago in the 11 p.m. to midnight time period by a whopping 188%, according to Nielsen. More impressive for the series is that the second... MoreLink This | Email This | Comments (2) The Cosby Show: A Quarter Century Of LaughsTV Land tonight (Sept. 23) will pay homage to the 25 th anniversary of The Cosby Show with a three-hour retrospective of the comedy show’s most memorable episodes. It’s impossible to ignore the influence that the series, which debuted Sept. 20, 1984 on NBC and focused on the lives of an upper income African-American family, has had on the TV comedy sitcom genre and... More |
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