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  • Dispute over Greek broadcaster illustrates how essential public service broadcasting is

    Protesters demonstrate outside Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens last week. Prime minister Antonis Samaras was forced to climb down over his decision to close the state broadcaster. Photograph: ...

  • Sports Summit CBS McManus -- Fox Sports 1 Not Altering OurStrategy

    New York -- CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus expects the launch of Fox Sports 1 in August to make a lot of noise, but he's not changing the strategy of his cable competitor CBS Sports Network in light of the crowding field, he told attendees at Wednesday's Sports Business and Technology Summit presented ...

  • Public Knowledge Broadcasters Should Be Free From Content Regs

    "Whatever the future of broadcasting might be, there is no question that broadcasters have the same First Amendment rights as other speakers." That was the message to the FCC from Public Knowledge, TechFreedom, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy & Technology in comments filed at the FCC.Former FCC chairman Julius Genachowski last fall announced that the FCC ...

  • Shazam Launches New Ad Measurement Effort

    During the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, second-screen provider Shazam announced a new advertising metric and service that it believes will help advertisers more accurately gauge the effectiveness of TV advertising. The new "Shazam Engagement Rate" combines third-party industry data on the number of people viewing a particular ad with the number of people who ...

  • Sound Devices Welcomes Reedsburg Area High School Students For New Summer Internship Program

    Sound Devices, specialists in production sound and video products for field production, is hosting local students to its Reedsburg headquarters as part of a new summer internship ...


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Movie Review

Wild Wild West

Barry Sonnenfeld's "Wild Wild West" is a giant, bombastic flop of a movie. It's a $100-million science fiction-Western-comedy-action hybrid with elaborate special effects and big name stars that never manages to balance itself, let alone gain momentum. It just sort of chugs along on good intentions and the hope that some of its tedious jokes might land with something other than a thud. ...

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  • DreamHack Summer 2013 Broadcast Live with Blackmagic Design

    Fremont, CA - June 19, 2013 - Organizers of DreamHack Summer 2013, the worlds largest digital festival and LAN eSports competition, are preparing to broadcast and stream more than 512 hours of HD programming with the help of Blackmagic Design’s ATEM Production Switcher range and Teranex 2D Processors. Over the course of four days more than 10,000 amateur and professional gamers will ...

  • The Tiffen Company Turns Up The Creative Control For Cinematographers Introduces New Integrated “Film Looks” MPTV Filters

    The Tiffen Company, a leading manufacturer of award-winning accessories for the still imaging, video, motion picture and broadcast markets, has begun shipping the new Tiffen Satin(TM) and Tiffen Black Satin(TM) MPTV Filters in 4 x 4, 4 x 5.65 and 6.6 x 6.6 sizes. "Optical filter development is the cornerstone of the Tiffen Company, and our new line of integrated Tiffen filters, which ...

  • Arbitron revises reporting policy for streaming

    At the request of the radio advisory council, Arbitron re-evaluated its policies regarding total line reporting (TLR) specific to streams. After some evaluation, effective with the Summer Diary survey and July PPM report period, a stream will not be required to simulcast any content outside the over-the-air station's home Metro and DMA to be eligible for TLR. The stream must simulcast 100% ...

  • Ford to offer SiriusXM Internet Radio on SYNC

    Ford will be the first automaker to give its customers in-vehicle access to the SiriusXM Internet Radio App in Ford vehicles equipped with SYNC AppLink. Ford drivers will be the first to enjoy access to the MySXM and SiriusXM On Demand features of SiriusXM Internet Radio alongside satellite radio. via voice commands, steering wheel or radio controls. The SiriusXM Internet Radio App can be used ...

  • AFM head calls out Pandora in OpEd

    Raymond M. Hair Jr., the international president of the American Federation of Musicians, took to the virtual pages of Roll Call to publicly wonder why Pandora is telling Congress one story and Wall Street another. Hair noted that Pandora is working Capitol Hill in an extended effort to get its royalty payments down, which musicians claim would amount to an 85% cut in the amount of royalty ...

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