20 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Daewoo launches a 3m television and cinema advertising campaign in the New Year with two...entertainment system. The ads will run on national TV for six weeks and a cinema version of the Matiz ad ...
20 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - AT 50bn deal, which will create a US cable television giant with around 22m subscribers....Communications.
The deal represents a turn of events in the US broadcasting arena, which sees satellite TV ...
.
The EchoStar deal is being opposed by competition authorities because it had been set to create a satellite pay-TV ...
20 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
politicians have attacked the deal, saying it will harm satellite TV viewers and reduce their service....-competitive, anti-consumer and would create a prima facie monopoly in the satellite TV industry. If consummated, this merger would eliminate consumer choice for satellite TV and would raise costs and reduce the quality ...
, following the launch of its takeover bid for its US satellite TV rival.
The deal is now opposed by a ...
20 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
programmes for nearly a decade. It represented a breakthrough for TV entertainment as a whole and created a ...
is slowly beginning to make headway in the terrestrial TV market. Only yesterday, it was announced that Sky ...
19 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Sky News has finally made it to terrestrial television in the UK, albeit on the morning...The contract, which begins on January 7, realises a long-held aim of BSkyB-owner Rupert Murdoch to get Sky content aired on terrestrial TV. The deal will see Sky News's morning news programme Sunrise simultaneously broadcast on the UK's fifth terrestrial broadcaster.
The show will be broadcast between 6.30am ...
19 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - AdCritic.com, the US TV and radio advertising website, has folded after running out...a successful life as a leader in the area of archiving television and radio advertising and related ...
18 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
taste of the US market.
The move also reunites Universal Studios with the TV assets that its ...
film rights.
The deal sees the creation of a new film and television unit called Vivendi ...
multibillion-dollar entertainment business.
Diller, whose TV career began at ABC, is credited ...
18 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
on matters of UK public policy in relation to Disney's film and television businesses, and the future ...
Company UK and Ireland, and also with David Hulbert, president of Walt Disney Television International ...
17 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
that it has acted anti-competitively in its digital television practices.
17 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
arm of USA Networks, which will create a new movie and television business for the Franco...to take over the running of Universal Studios' film, television and theme park businesses.
The acquisition gives Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier control of film and TV assets including the USA and Sci-Fi Channel cable networks, and film and television production units. They will be combined with Universal ...