Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, an Olympic gold medalist, left a public-relations post at the U.S. Olympic Committee to head a struggling cable-television trade group for women.
Evan Shapiro, who joined Participant in May after serving as president of IFC and the Sundance Channel, will head up the new cable TV network, Berk said.
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It recently appointed Bonnie Hammer to head up all the NBCUniversal cable channel.
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Business Secretary Vince Cable is standing by his candidate to head the university fair access watchdog, despite a rejection by MPs.
The equity stakes it is expensively accumulating in American and British cable companies should at least give it a head start over its rivals.
"That's obviously a concern, if Verizon can put together a converged service offering that starts to peel people away from cable operators, " said Mark Rowland, head of the wireless practice at IBB Consulting.
"We do expect phone metering to be a big boost to our business since it makes it easier for customers to justify connecting to the Internet via cable, " says Russell Sy, marketing head for SkyCable's high-speed services.
So far there is no evidence that this is cannibalising YouSee's cable business, according to Anders Blauenfeldt, its head of product development.
Most of the credit for those numbers goes to Jeffrey Gaspin, 47, the boyish-looking head of all the company's entertainment cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi and Oxygen.
Set-top box manufacturers and satellite-TV providers are fighting Gemstar to keep their own guides, and now four large U.S. cable companies are mobilizing to launch a service that will go head on with Gemstar's interactive guide.
Authentication has been embraced by many players in the TV industry as a way to head off the possibility that consumers could begin dropping their cable and satellite TV subscriptions in favor of lower-cost online video services, such as Netflix Inc.
"We're not big in ERP, aren't aggressively exploring outsourcing and don't view the Web as so bizarre we can't get our head around it, " says Scott Hatfield, chief information officer at cable operator Cox Communications.
Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida speculated that in the future, the company might use a subscription service not unlike cable TV.
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