Even with the economy in recession, even with television distribution models in upheaval, even with the advertising business suffering, business was surprisingly good at the Cable Show ’09. Beating predictions of a serious attendance drop, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s annual...
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Executives at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show ’09 last week were relatively upbeat about their prospects. “We’re an industry that is still growing customers,” said Pat Esser, CEO of Cox Communications. Consumers see their broadband connection and their cable TV connection...
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Crime is paying for Discovery Communications as its Investigation Discovery channel prepares for a second season with a slate of 11 new original series, including shows from Paula Zahn and Whoopi Goldberg. The channel was known as Discovery Times until a joint venture with the New York Times dissolved...
Chicago-based Towers Productions, producer of such cable series as “American Justice,” “Inside 911” and “Storm Stories,” is kicking off its 20th year in business with a number of new assignments from Discovery Communications. With the economy in recession, Towers this year may not be able to top the...
Comcast Corp. and Discovery Communications have quietly agreed to a new long-term carriage agreement—proving that not all negotiations between cable operators and programmers have to result in the kind of fireworks that Time Warner Cable and Viacom produced late last year. Like the Viacom-Time Warner...
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Ted Koppel sounded like a young boy who’s just been told that the rest of the school year will consist only of snow days. In a phone call only a few hours after the announcement last week that Discovery Communications was ending its relationship with Mr. Koppel and his crew, he sounded positively giddy...
The economic crisis that rocked Wall Street showed up as a ripple in many media company earnings reports for the third quarter—but a more ominous harbinger of hard times emerged Friday. General Motors, which reported a $4.2 billion third-quarter loss, said Friday it had decided to cut back on its upfront...
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When Discovery Communications CEO David Zaslav decided it was time to make a change at the top of TLC— one of the company’s most important networks—he didn’t have to look far for someone to run it. Mr. Zaslav tapped Eileen O’Neill, a 17-year Discovery veteran, to replace Angela Shapiro-Mathes, who had...