Tweet

Cascio Is Stand-Up Guy

By Allison Romano -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/3/2004 5:40:00 AM

Former Animal Planet chief Michael Cascio is joining start-up cable channel Stand-Up Comedy Television as vice chairman of the board.

He will assist in the development of the channel, which is eyeing a January 2005 debut. So far, however, it does not have any distribution deals.

Joseph and Ari Fox, who made millions when they sold their online brokerage firm, Web Street Inc., to E*Trade Financial Corp, are behind the channel.

Plans call for studios in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami and Phoenix that will produce the bulk of the programming.

While Comedy Central aims at adults 18-49, the new  channel is targeting baby boomers.

Tweet

Talkback

We would love your feedback!

Post a comment

» View All Talkback Threads

Related Content

• Topics
• Author
• Most Popular Pages

No related content found.

Also by this author

• HD's Reality Check

• Cutting Bait On Subchannels

• High-Definition: More to Come

• Olbermann's Overseer

• A Powerful Voice for Latinos

Also by Allison Romano

Most Popular Pages

No Top Articles

• Resource Center
• Browse Categories
• Browse Companies

Featured Company

• Digital Rapids

  

  Digital Rapids is the leading provider of professional hardware and software tools, technology and expertise for bringing video to wider audiences and new viewing platforms. Continuing to set new standards in quality, productivity and versatility, our solutions span the critical ..more

---

Most Recent Resources

• The New Normal for Promoting Tune-in
• Infrastructure Design for High Volume Video Workflows
• Multi Format Encoding for Efficient Content Repurposing
• The CIOs Guide to Videoconferencing Security Keeping Pace with th..
• Extracting and Preparing Metadata to Make Video Files Searchable