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Blue’s Clues, a hit U.S. cartoon series about the adventures of a blue puppy, needs the help of a little kitty to make it in Japan. U.S. media conglomerate Viacom and Japan’s Sanrio Co., owner of the popular Hello Kitty character, have tied up to promote the Blue’s Clues merchandise in the world’s No. 2 …
Long before he created the popular crime-solving TV series “Law & Order,” Dick Wolf was an ad man working for Benton & Bowles and other agencies. One of his big accomplishments was helping to devise the slogan “You can’t beat Crest for fighting cavities” for the Procter & Gamble toothpaste. When working with P&G, Mr. …
This is a pretty easy process but it will take some time. Basically we have to do a two-step process: Getting a digital version of the audio tapes, then burning those digital audio files to standard CDs. First we need to rip the data off the cassette tapes. You’ll need one special piece of hardware …
Yahoo! Inc’s. negotiations to buy social networking site Facebook for about $1 billion have reportedly stalled. Yahoo!, run by CEO Terry Semel, has been under pressure to respond to Google Inc’s. recent decision to pay $1.65 billion for video site YouTube. But executives at Facebook — a near-direct competitor to MySpace, which was snapped up …
Google is prepared to pump more video into YouTube, an executive with the search giant said. Days after the $1.65 billion sale was announced, Marissa Mayer, Google vp search product and user experience, discussed the company’s acquisition at a breakfast hosted Friday by the New Yorker and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. Envisioning more …
In an apparent display of saber-rattling aimed at nudging video Web site YouTube Inc. into cutting favorable licensing deals, a number of major media companies have banded together to explore the legal implications of the video site’s unauthorized use of copyright material, people familiar with the matter say. The move comes just days after YouTube …
Jeff Zucker has worked his way from the bottom up at NBC for the past 20 years, but given the U.S. television network’s unimpressive ratings in the last year, this season could well have been his last. That was until Zucker, chief executive for NBC Universal Television Group, found himself some heroes, including a blockbuster …
The top news executive at National Public Radio suddenly resigned from his post last night, leaving the Washington-based organization without an editorial leader for programming that reaches more than 20 million listeners a week. Bill Marimow will stay at NPR and become its ombudsman, which removes him from daily responsibility for programs such as “All …
Another highly anticipated — at least by critics — new series fizzled Wednesday night. “30 Rock,” Tina Fey’s much-ballyhooed “SNL” -ish comedy series, scared up only 8.1 million viewers in the third week of the new TV season. NBC’s other “SNL”-ish series, Aaron Sorkin’s “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” opened during Premiere Week to …
Game shows are not quiz shows. That should be understood at the outset, because knowledge is not an American virtue; luck is. And so is virtue. Prime-time game shows like “1 vs 100,” which begins tonight on NBC, are not a test of a contestant’s erudition or nerve; they are aspirational reality shows that allow …
Looks like all the rumors were true. Say hello to the new special edition red iPod Nano. Bono, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities have partnered with Apple Computer on a special red-colored iPod Nano to help raise money for a new charity aimed at battling AIDS in Africa called PRODUCT RED. To help promote the …
When a single-engine plane crashed into an Upper East Side apartment building on Wednesday, Fox News Channel delivered early video to its viewers from the crash site using a hand-held mobile phone with live streaming video. Scott Wilder, a Fox cameraman, had been about 20 blocks away on another assignment when the crash occurred. Wilder …
After years of talk, new media is finally emerging as a significant revenue stream in the TV marketplace. That was the message streaming out of Cannes as the MIPCOM confab moved into its closing phase. A string of video-on-demand deals announced on the Croisette involving such major players as BBC Worldwide, CBS/Paramount and Buena Vista …
In 1981, Judy McGrath was a copy writer for Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment, working on projects such as the “Devo Goes Hawaiian” campaign. Eventually, she would rise to the top of one of the world’s most recognizable media brands, Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks. “I was happy in the magazine business [at Condé Nast Publications, before …
NBC is making a mark, thanks to the fall’s best-looking newbie ‘Heroes.’ ABC’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ hit one of three top spots in the 18-49 rankings. ‘Heroes’ matches its solid key premiere-week numbers in its most recent airing on NBC. ABC and CBS continue to be the best stories of the early going this season, each …
Maybe a good place to start is to attack the notion that “30 Rock” is a satirical take on “Saturday Night Live.” If that’s what you want, visit “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” which also has some of the best and smartest acting and writing on TV. “30 Rock,” though written by and starring …
NBC said it plans to launch an original digital series, Pale Force, which is drawn from a series of animated sketches that have been featured on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. Pale Force, created by comedian and frequent Conan-guest Jim Gaffigan, was first featured on Late Night in September of 2005. Following two other successful …
