For the past sixty years, TV executives have been making the decisions about what we watch in our living rooms.
That, in a way, contradicts a common belief among TV executives, that the audience demands outrageous or fantastical plot twists.
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Instead, several pay-TV executives suggest creation of smaller bundles or tiers based on genre, from which viewers could pick and choose.
The aim is to cut through the clutter--and, though most TV executives won't admit it, to reach fidgety viewers who zap ads assiduously.
Pay-TV executives argue that people will always find ways of paying for their wares, perhaps by cutting back on cinema tickets or bottled water.
Object all you want, but the TV executives truly don't care.
Television anchor Tracey Spicer also produced another online hit with an excoriating attack on some of the male TV executives she had encountered during her career.
Some TV executives have accused Dish of releasing the new ad-skipping service to gain more leverage in negotiations over those fees, a strategy Mr. Ergen implicitly acknowledged.
Desperate record labels might have been willing to sell themselves over to Apple, but TV executives and cable companies are strong enough that they have no need to cede power to Cupertino.
While some pay-TV executives say that full "a la carte'" could be overwhelming for viewers, others say that such an offering would be "the dream" but not practical, considering the reality of relationships with entertainment companies.
In later life, he concentrated on fishing and shooting in his beloved Scotland, although there was more controversy in 2004 when he accused female TV executives of dumbing down the corporation with too many lifestyle programmes.
As my colleague Lacey Rose reports, not a good idea for someone whose company is owned by Disney, Fox and NBC, especially when he needs to go to TV executives in the hope of getting more content for his site.
Some TV executives and analysts suggest that online video, tablet computers and wider use of digital-video recorders could be pulling prime-time viewers to other places and times that aren't counted in prime-time usage figures, although many also caution it is too early in the TV season to draw any broad conclusions.
Were Indiana to win this Eastern Conference final, it would be a significant upset, and perhaps provoke some ratings-hungry TV executives to order a double bourbon, but it would not be shocking, given how the Pacers have matched the Heat throughout the series and refused to yield to the expected story line.
Certainly TV network executives think her U.S. potential is massive.
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In recent weeks, Apple executives have discussed their vision for the future of TV with media executives at several large companies, according to people familiar with the matter.
Apple has considered adopting new business models for delivering video, including a subscription TV service, media executives said last year.
But outside the case, which comes to trial sometime next year, there's a disturbing trend of ideas flowing among broadcast executives regarding TV viewers and commercials.
As for the rest of the programs last night, well ... only the most masochistic of TV showrunners and network executives even look at ratings during a holiday week (which is to say, pretty much all of them).
In January 2002 he threatened to sue Securicor for defamation because company executives announced on TV two months after Sept. 11 that the founder had been let go.
Now that Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling have been convicted, the parade of well-dressed miscreants--the cable TV pioneers, the telecommunications executives, star brokers and even a housekeeping diva who became the Gordon Gekkos for a whole new generation--is over.
According to what i heard on bloomberg TV the other day one of RIM executives said he wont be surprise if the white house turn back to RIM as its preferred choice.
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Twitter executives have been talking with many TV companies, including Comcast Corp.
After years spent in TV writers rooms and fielding script notes from network executives, Cannell took critiques from his book editors in stride and kept up a steady output.
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Joining Granada TV at its launch in 1956 as one of the founding executives, he also oversaw such shows as What The Papers Say, A Family at War and The Verdict is Yours, a series of fictional trials improvised by the actors and featuring a real jury.
K. Shin, to c0-CEO of the company with two other executives: Boo-keun Yoon, who heads the TV and consumer electronics division, and vice-chairman Oh-Hyun Kwon.
The Public Broadcasting Service got geek this week, debuting NerdTV, a downloadable, Web-only TV series that features interviews with a wide array of technology inventors and executives.
He isn't persuaded by the deal's critics who argue that Comcast executives lack the creative zest that's needed at movie and TV provider Walt Disney.
On stage before the Television Critics Association Saturday, the FX chief articulated what has become a growing challenge for him and other network executives: the explosion of original programming across the thousand-channel TV universe.
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Already some consumer goods and ad agency executives are alluding to the fact that the rate of return on traditional TV is becoming sketchy.
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