Media

For A TV program,a billion viewers would mean a lot of money or prestige for a TV producer. But it’s not warranted, in either case, for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, nor for U.S. TV advertisers.

Most people I meet in the media business love competition. We love to compete and even better, we love to win. Competition is what drives us. If your group is as competitive as many I know, you wake up to fight each day. Small victories are very meaningful, big victories are reason to light up a Red Auerbach cigar. So can competition be bad?

Digital cable TV services such as High Definition TV (HDTV), Video-on-Demand (VOD), Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), high-speed data and telephony services are helping cable operators to boost their Average Revenue Per Unit (ARPU), according to a survey of operators by In-Stat.

Top radio commercials that ran February 21 – 27, 2005.

The global telecommunications industry showed modest growth in 2004, and the growth of its revenue is expected to continue into 2005, says a new market analysis report from Insight Research. According to the study, worldwide telecommunications services revenue is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 5.9 percent from 2005 to 2010, which reflects the level of sustainable growth enjoyed by the telecom segment prior to the technology bubble of the late 1990s.

Univision revealed the winners of the 17th edition of “Premio Lo Nuestro a la Música Latina” Latin music awards. Marc Anthony (four awards), Paulina Rubio (three awards including a special recognition) and Sin Bandera (three awards), topped the list of Latin music recording artists who received the prestigious statuette. Other winners included Alicia Villareal (two awards in the Mexican Regional genre), Chayanne, Celia Cruz (posthumously), Juanes, Banda El Recodo, Carlos Vives, and Marco Antonio Solís.