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08/18/2005
Bolting Bristol: Shapiro Leaving ESPN to Join Redskins Owner
The rumors were true. Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder almost always gets his man-this time it’s ESPN programming wunderkind Mark Shapiro. The articulate and handsome 35-yr-old is leaving his primo job as Bristol’s head of programming and production Oct 1 to join Snyder’s Red Zone LLC , a private investment company (Cfax, 8/12). Snyder’s target […]
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08/18/2005
That Sucks: DISH Net Hopes to Vacuum Up Competition with New Spots
DISH Net’s latest campaign doesn’t feature an inflatable pig or a big red question mark. Simply put, it sucks. The Publicis West spots launched Tues and feature a TV literally sucking up everything in a room-from a purse to food to the family cat. The hook is that TV doesn’t have to suck if you […]
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08/05/2005
SVOD
Mag Rack honcho Dan Ronayne isn’t sweating the news that Howard Stern is headed to SVOD via In Demand. Instead, he’s hoping Mag Rack’s upcoming 20-part VOD series "Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts" (debuted yesterday) will offer the women of the house their own fun when their men turn to Stern. But will he […]
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08/02/2005
Boycott Over
Looks like ESPN is about to placate CableFAX editors, DC govt officials and more than 560K potentially disenfranchised DC residents by agreeing to include the Capitol City in "SportsCenter’s" 50-states-in-50-days tour (Cfax, 7/21). The Capitol’s omission has sparked letters from the city’s Mayor, a phone call to Bristol from Jesse Jackson and a threatened boycott […]
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07/26/2005
Dish + Bell
The dip was nowhere near as drastic as what SBC reported last week, but the number of DirecTV subs added through a partnership with BellSouth were definitely down in 2Q. The RBOC said it added 80K DBS subs vs 113K in 1Q. Last week, SBC said it added 10K DISH Network subs vs 73K in […]
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07/26/2005
Showtime Bullish on Free VOD
Buoyed by strong results and bursting to tout upcoming comedy series "Weeds," Showtime will continue pushing its free VOD play on Comcast, svp, marketing Geof Rochester says. "This is perfect," he says of the play that reaches all Comcast’s digital HHs, even those that are not Showtime subs. The service (Cfax, 4/25) refreshes monthly and […]