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- 18 Jul 2011
- News
Google antitrust watchers: Place your bets, please
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a series of significant acquisitions, purchasing a small cable television station. During the next few decades, Landmark's TeleCable division bought dozens of cable stations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Change Channel
background as an example of the diversity of the gay experience in America. “Advertisers and cable servers seem to understand that this is one of the last great underserved market segments,” Graden noted. “If you’re gay or lesbian, you... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
“Traditional television can be a friction-filled experience,” he says. “Often you have to go to a certain room of the house at a certain time and find the right channel for your show—is it 723 or 694 on the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
purchased and revived Wired magazine before selling it at a sizable profit to CondŽ Nast. Last year, Providence led a consortium that bought the largest cable television company in Europe. A native of... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible. Other peoples and places were... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
companies strengthening themselves across several media activities. Thus Disney, which began as an entertainment provider before adding network and cable television companies, now owns a 43 percent stake in... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
industry as another catalyst was gathering critical mass: the dynamic pairing of television and sports. Neil R. Austrian (MBA '68), president of the National Football League, explains: "The 1958 Colts-Giants overtime game was the NFL's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
less, attractive. Hardware and software are complements. So are hot dogs and mustard, cars and car loans, cable television and TV Guide, the Internet and high-capacity digital phone lines, catalogues and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Brown and Company) Beginning in 1979 as a cable channel televising sporting events in Connecticut, ESPN is arguably now the most successful network in TV history. The authors tell the inside story of this... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision, were pioneering what would become... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
This technology is being widely used for the first time in this spring's Advanced Management Program: International Senior Managers' Program. The Message and the Medium As the last yards of new fiber-optic cables are installed, updated... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
marketplace mean studios are making fewer and bigger movies. “Corporations are about reducing risk; making movies is about taking risks,” says Zee. “The safest bet seems to be franchises and big, expensive movies. But where is the innovation going to come from? You can... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
materials served up to Americans was exploding: In 1978, Time Inc. published 6 magazines; today it publishes 132. Technology transformed broadcast media as well. In the late 1970s, most Americans had three networks on their TV sets: ABC, CBS, and NBC. When View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Seattle cable television company, and in 1969 sold the enterprise -- by then a multimillion-dollar business -- to CBS. He then "dabbled in real estate" and during a trip to the South Pacific to explore... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
television. We were a cable television company. So the first thing is we had to create a unique distribution model. Many of them still watched broadcast TV, so first we had to convince Viacom to allow us to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
have successful careers, we wanted to have successful lives." In Denver, Judith G. Allen (MBA '83) also managed to parlay her career skills into a parttime consulting business after leaving the fulltime workforce. An executive in the View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
intellectual content." A Balancing Act Carter Brown, who now chairs the cable television arts network Ovation and sits on the boards of some twenty nonprofit, public, and private institutions, observes, "You... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record companies as well. "With digital transmission, you can send music over phone lines and cable modems without losing quality," says HBS associate professor John Sviokla, who has studied the music industry in connection with his... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso