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Blogs And Podcasts The “New Entertainment” - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 06:12 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Robert Dowling, President Film and Performing Arts, VNU Business Publications and Publisher/Editor of The Hollywood Reporter, said on a panel today: “Confusion not content is…

Dyke: Broadcasters Will Adapt To PVRs - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 06:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Former BBC Director General and current HIT Entertainment Chairman Greg Dyke, said (intending irony) on a panel here at MIPCOM “People have been telling me…

Webcasting and Mobile “Enhancing” TV in Korea - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 05:12 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Speaking at MIPCOM Yun-Joo Jung, CEO of Korean national broadcaster KBS, said that originally they thought webcasting over broadband would take away viewers from TV…

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“What’s A Video iPod?” - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 05:12 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Yes folks, trawling the parties along the Croissette, your intrepid correspondent actually managed to find a guy in the TV business who hadn’t heard about…

TV Archives To Be Revamped For New Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 05:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] In an MP3 interview World Media Rights CEO Alan Griffiths (pictured) spoke exclusively to paidContent.org about the potential for TV archives to be revamped for…

News Execs Sees Hard Disk Future - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 05:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] MIPCOM “CEO Superpanel” featured - naturally enough - some big CEOs. The theme for the panel was the the threats and opportunities in the Tv…

“TV Industry Sitting 3 Miles From St Helens Before It Blew” - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 18 Oct 2005 01:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Philip Radley Smith, MD, i2ic.com, a streaming solutions provider, pointed out how so many TV firms still display TV content for mobile on VHS and…

The Most Interesting Character at MIPCOM? - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Mon 17 Oct 2005 11:12 PM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] It may not sound like Malcom Thomson, a Dubai-based TV consultant, has much to say about the future of media in the TV market, but…

Rights Firms To Exploit Mobile Video, Even With No Model - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Mon 17 Oct 2005 07:12 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Launching WMR at MIPCOM today, chairman Andrew Neil admitted that “the business model for TV on the mobile isn’t proven, “but that a lot of…

Crazy Frog TV Series? - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Mon 17 Oct 2005 07:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Things are getting very weird when a ringtone character turns into a TV series, but that is what is happening with the mind-numbing ringtone Crazy…

BBC World to Broadbandcast On GreenGrass - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Mon 17 Oct 2005 06:12 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] GreenGrass.tv has signed up BBC World, the 24-hour international news and information channel, for its pre-pay broadcast network. Going live in a few weeks, the…

UK Broadcaster Launches Broadband Trial - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Mon 17 Oct 2005 05:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Mainstream UK broadcaster ITV has bitten the bullet and begun a three month trial of its service on broadband internet. The pilot, dubbed ITV Local…

TV Business Coming Round To Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Mon 17 Oct 2005 04:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] New media veteran Ferhan Cook, CEO of MediaPlay International, organized MIPCOM’s inaugural Mobile TV Screenings & Awards and in an exclusive interview with paidContent.org, she…

UK TV Personality Launches TV Rights Firm To Exploit New Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Mon 17 Oct 2005 04:11 AM PST

[by Mike Butcher @ MIPCOM] Andrew Neil, the ubiquitous TV media personality and and former Sunday Times editor, has launched a Â£30m fund to specifically acquire TV programme rights, distribute…