With travel budgets slashed and a big drop in attendance anticipated, exhibitors at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters convention plan to cater to the times with lower-priced products. NAB stalwarts such as Sony and Panasonic intend to showcase reduced-price cameras. Sony, for one, plans...
A new version of "The $25,000 Pyramid" from Sony and producer Michael Davies ("Who Wants to Be a Millionaire") is one of the projects CBS is considering as a replacement for "Guiding Light." Neither Sony nor CBS would comment. However, two people familiar with the situation...
Sony said today that its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 95% from a year earlier and cut its sales and earnings forecast for the year ending March 31. The drop was partially due to the worse-than-expected performance of its electronics division, which includes television-making operations. Sony’s net...
Sony is buying Embassy Row, the production company run by "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" executive producer Michael Davies. The move, confirmed by two people familiar with the agreement, cements an already strong relationship between Mr. Davies and Sony. The studio signed a three-year overall...
Despite the current economic downturn, the Consumer Electronics Show kicking off in Las Vegas this week is projecting that attendance in the entertainment category will hold steady with last year. Overall, the Consumer Electronics Association expects about 130,000 attendees for the annual tech-centric...
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Despite a shortage of high-powered programmers as keynote speakers at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, television networks and Internet content providers have big plans to produce a number of shows at the massive convention’s 2009 edition in Las Vegas. Though the economy has turned south and the...
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North American television shipment year-over-year unit growth during the third quarter slowed from the second quarter, though it still exceeded previous forecasts, NPD Group DisplaySearch said today. U.S. customers took advantage of cheaper plasma TVs to buy more flat-screen televisions in advance of...
Samsung Electronics’ third-quarter loss from its television-making operations narrowed as shipments of its flat-panel televisions outpaced the broader market, helping it keep its worldwide lead among liquid-crystal display TV manufacturers. Profit from Samsung’s LCD panel-making business fell as TV makers...
Sony said today that its fiscal first-quarter television earnings rose as it dropped prices to sell more of its Bravia liquid-crystal display TVs. The company also said unit sales of its PlayStation 3 video game consoles, which include Blu-ray players, doubled while its Blu-ray set-top players and recorders...