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Over the past few years, digital technology has profoundly changed the home-shopping business, which not only appears to be surviving but, in many ways, is thriving despite radical changes in [...]

In their quest to find new products, develop more engaging content and attract new viewers, home-shopping networks have turned to a now-familiar programming genre: reality competition. QVC, HSN and Evine [...]

SIKESTON, Mo. -- There's not a Starbucks to be found in this small, rural town nestled in Missouri's 'boot heel'--the southeast corner of the Show-Me State. But Sikeston, with a [...]

Matthew Polka has worn many hats during his career, including working briefly as a journalist. He had given up on engineering when he flunked a calculus course taught--in an ironic [...]

ESPN's recent carriage deals marked what appeared to be somewhat of a truce between programmers and cable operators. That peace might not prevail. For this year and into the near [...]

QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GOT was a pop culture--and ratings--phenomenon last year. The Fab Five represented one of NBC'S first efforts to make over its artsy acquisition, Bravo. Nip/Tuck [...]

VIACOM INC. CHAIRMAN Sumner Redstone has often crowed that content is king. And now Comcast Corp., distribution's reigning monarch, is making good oil its vow to be a bigger player [...]

LIKE SOME OTHER CABLE NETWORKS, Court TV has been engaged in tough contract negotiations with Comcast Corp. and its chief of programming, Matt Bond. Bond, an industry veteran who's known [...]

When Doug Herzog came to Comedy Central as president in 1995, he didn't know anything about affiliate relations. So he set up a lunch with then-MTV Networks affiliate-relations chief Mark [...]

The National Cable Television Cooperative, which represents small operators, in January will conduct a panel discussion you're not likely to see at other cable-industry gatherings: It will offer its independent [...]

Monster Garage has nothing to do with dinosaurs or woolly mammoths. It's a show in which a group of designers and mechanics team up to transform an ordinary car into [...]

During the Winter Olympics on NBC, one brief on-screen graphic urged viewers to click on ShopNBC.com to buy an official Olympic beret. It wasn't much of a plug-just a visual [...]

Nearly everybody cut ad budgets in 2001. Nearly everybody. Trying to jump-start lagging sales, particularly after Sept. 11, car dealers bucked the trend and wound up increasing their ad spending [...]

THE TECHNOLOGY USED TO measure local television and radio audiences today dates back roughly 50 years. It was launched in an era when homes bad one TV set, families were [...]

Tam Johnson, chairman and CEO of CNN News Group, is a $1 billion man. This year, for the first time, revenue from his stable of six cable channels will break [...]

In the low-penetrated world of digital tiers, original shows will take a backseat to library programming. Cable-network executives are grappling with the issue of just how much original programming, if [...]

The kids' business is getting more cutthroat: Can Nick withstand the challenge? Last month, several-hundred Madison Avenue executives and the press packed a hotel ballroom to watch Fox Family Channel [...]

Strong ratings should mean a robust upfront market for cable, but Madison Avenue is already predicting a 'correction.' Advertisers go where the ratings are. And last year, the ratings went [...]

Auto makers explore using interactivity to turn TV sets into the auto showrooms of the future. At a PaineWebber Group Inc. media conference last December, laughs rippled through the audience [...]

Consolidation is the buzzword among cable advertising executives these days, with efforts afoot to create interconnects in the remaining non-unified major markets. This activity, which includes picking a single national [...]

Metaire, LA. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency at one point confiscated a truck bringing diesel to fuel generators powering its cable-TV plant. Trash haulers, their trucks overloaded from trying [...]

It wasn't a particular surprise when Block Communications Inc. complained to federal regulators that high retransmission-consent fees, like those sought by The Walt Disney Co., hurt consumers and ultimately aren't [...]

Pennsylvania -- home of the nation's biggest MSO, Comcast Corp.--is also a bastion of independent cable operators. Service Electric Television Inc. is one of the scrappiest. Service Electric--along with companies [...]

Cable operators are bracing for retransmission-consent trouble with almost 10 broadcasters, most of them independent TV-station owners. Based on input from cable-industry sources, Multichanhel News has put together a list [...]

Programmers and Wall Street analysts alike are saying Time Warner Cable's court victory against AMC will mean vexing woes and repercussions for the network and its parent, Rainbow Media Holdings, [...]

While major programmers continue to experiment with video on demand, they continue to hold back their most-prized content--marquee primetime programming --from the new platform. At last week's National Show, how [...]

SIKESTON, MO. -- Small cable operators like Tom Gleason Jr. dispute the notion there isn't an appetite for advanced services, such as high-speed Internet or HDTV, in rural areas. He [...]

Cable syndication is no longer chump change, as Home Box Office and Comedy Central can attest. They recently closed two landmark deals, valued at more than $100 million each, in [...]

Count New Age author Deepak Chopra's son among 'the founding team' recruiting several dozen 'digital correspondents' for former Vice President Al Gore's upcoming cable network. Gore and his fledgling media [...]

Five days before Cox Communications Inc.'s corporate parent announced plans to take the company private, CEO Jim Robbins was in his office, fielding a reporter's questions about the cable company's [...]

To make the case that cable companies should group networks by genre, programmers like Court TV and ESPN turn to the supermarket analogy. 'If the cable lineup were a supermarket, [...]

PHOENIX -- Cable One Inc.'s muchpublicized rate freeze last year wasn't the only factor that helped fuel basicsubscriber growth in 2003. CEO Thomas Might promised his employees a 'bonus for [...]

WHILE THE BROADCAST NETWORKS ARE STILL BETTING BIG ON reality programming, cable is hoping to make at least a little noise with a select crop of scripted dramas. Already this [...]

MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION AND FX ARE SAVVY PROGRAMMERS that have successfully launched big primetime hits. MTV's The Osbournes became a pop-culture phenomenon, while FX's The Shield and Nip/Tuck appealed to [...]