• Showtime To Stream Emmy Screeners Online
• McDowell Concerned About Wholesale A La Carte
• Cedar Point's Paff: 'Time for Someone Else to Come In'
• Big Ten Scores With Massillon Cable
• James Bruder Upped To CEO At Harron
• McCain, Fox News Gain With GOP Florida Primary
• NATPE 2008: Digital Revolution Devalues Content: Analysts

• NATPE 2008: WGA Strike To Kill Upfronts, Breed Shorter Series
• NATPE 2008: Eisner Says Internet Video Programming Still An Experiment
• Fourth GSN Executive Exits Network
• MTV’s ‘Making The Band 4’ Hits Ratings High

• Not Many Viewers On HBO's Couch For ‘In Treatment’
• Digital Transition Still Foreign To Many Viewers

Showtime To Stream Emmy Screeners Online
Showtime will wage its 2008 Primetime Emmy campaign on the Internet, with plans to stream 82 full-length episodes of its original programming to 14,000 voters in “broadcast quality.” click to read more...
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McDowell Concerned About Wholesale A La Carte
Federal Communications Commission Republican Robert McDowell voiced strong doubts Wednesday that the agency should force cable programmers to wholesale their channels on an unbundled or a la carte basis as proposed by FCC chairman Kevin Martin. click to read more...
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Cedar Point's Paff: 'Time for Someone Else to Come In'
Former Cedar Point Communications president and CEO Andy Paff said he’s leaving the company – which may file for an initial public offering at some point – on good terms. click to read more...
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Big Ten Scores With Massillon Cable
The Big Ten Network has added Massillon Cable TV and its 45,000 subscribers in Ohio to its distribution roster. click to read more...
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James Bruder Upped To CEO At Harron
Harron Communications has promoted its president, James Bruder, to chief executive, as chairman and CEO Joel Cohen cedes one title but remains chairman. click to read more...
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McCain, Fox News Gain With GOP Florida Primary
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) wasn’t the only winner at the Republican primary in Florida Tuesday. click to read more...
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NATPE 2008: Digital Revolution Devalues Content: Analysts
The strike by the Writers Guild of America may be the crisis of the moment, but financial analysts are as worried about other issues facing the entertainment industry such as retransmission consent, whether DVR usage is devaluing content, and the prospects of regulatory reform and recession. click to read more...
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NATPE 2008: WGA Strike To Kill Upfronts, Breed Shorter Series
The strike by the Writers Guild of America will drastically change the television business both in the short and long term, and some advertisers say they welcome the seismic shifts to come. click to read more...
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NATPE 2008: Eisner Says Internet Video Programming Still An Experiment
Everybody's interested in the Internet as the eventual platform for long-term scripted programming. All they have to figure out is who will make the content and how it will make money. One who is trying to solve the puzzle is Michael Eisner, former head the The Walt Disney Co. and now founder of The Tornante Co. click to read more...
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Fourth GSN Executive Exits Network
A fourth official at GSN, senior vice president of advertising sales Christopher Raleigh, has left the network, taking a post at The Weather Channel, officials said Wednesday. click to read more...
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MTV’s ‘Making The Band 4’ Hits Ratings High
The second-half premiere of MTV’s Making The Band 4 marked the series highest-rated debut among the network’s target demographic. click to read more...
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