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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Monday, April 14, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

NAB 2008: Sony Nets Big HD Camera Sales
By Glen Dickson
Las Vegas -- Sony announced a slew of HD-camera sales at the 2008 NAB Show here to major broadcast and cable customers, both for field applications and studio use. Most notable was that CBS reality show Survivor will use Sony’s XDCAM HD optical-disc cameras to shoot the upcoming 17th installment in HD, with production scheduled to begin this summer and the premiere episode debuting in the fall.

NAB 2008: Omneon Snags NBC Olympics Deal
By Glen Dickson
Video-server and storage supplier Omneon announced at the 2008 NAB Show that it won a large deal from NBC to create an Internet-protocol-based transport and storage solution to deliver both high- and low-resolution video from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games back to the United States.

NAB 2008: Hulu Uses Signiant for Content Aggregation
By Glen Dickson
Signiant, a provider of software-based systems that manage the distribution of digital-media content over diverse networks, announced that Hulu, the Web-video joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp., is using its software to aggregate TV shows, feature films and clips.

NAB 2008: Gray Television Taps Panasonic for HD Newsgathering
By Glen Dickson
Station group Gray Television has selected P2 HD, Panasonic’s solid-state camera format, to support newsgathering at 21 of its stations.

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NAB 2008: Thomson Touts MediaFuse, Partners with WorldNow
By Glen Dickson
Las Vegas -- Thomson Grass Valley’s big 2008 NAB Show news is MediaFuse, a software add-on to its Ignite automated production system that will allow broadcast stations to quickly repurpose their newscasts for Web distribution.

Citizen Journalists Get Syndie Show: YouNewsTV
By Michael Malone
Just over one year since it debuted YouNews on the Web, Broadcast Interactive Media is packaging users’ videos of twisters, high-school hoops and impossibly cute Shih Tzus into a syndicated show. The weekly YouNewsTV program has been cleared to air in more than 15 markets come September.

UPFRONT & CENTER: BET Wants Buyers to Vote for It
By Anne Becker
BET will structure its New York upfront stage show around an election theme. The April 17 presentation, called "Upfront ’08 -- Connection You Can Feel!," will stress the need for politicians to court African-American consumers. Network executives will pitch advertisers on the idea that BET is the way to reach those consumers through TV.

The History Channel Teams Up with the Library of Congress
By Anne Becker
A&E Television Networks’ The History Channel partnered with the Library of Congress to showcase the federal cultural institution’s content on its TV channels, online and in classrooms.

Obama’s Unusual Primetime Exposure
By Marisa Guthrie
The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) --with its themes of inclusion and unity -- recast traditional political media strategy, funneling almost one-half of its TV cash into primetime.

A Real Disconnect
By Ben Grossman
When CBS made its recent newsroom cuts at local stations around the country, I really didn't think twice about it. It seemed rational given the challenges at the network and through the TV business. Then someone I grew up watching—and later in life got to interact with professionally—got the sack.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

The Top 25 M&A Forecast
By Robert Marich
The climate is cooling for TV station mergers and acquisitions, as recession fears linger and the credit crunch makes financing more costly and difficult to obtain. But there are some warm spots: Election-year advertising is proving solid, and M&A deals still get done. The $1.1 billion sale of eight Fox O&Os to an affiliate of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners changed the l...
From the 04/14/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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