Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Blitzer Meets Cafferty in Real Life for the First Time on Wednesday's TSR
On today’s edition of CNN’s “The Situation Room”, Wolf Blitzer met Jack Cafferty in person for the first time. Blitzer done the show from New York today on his way back to Washington from Dubai:WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: We're in New York City and Jack Cafferty is in New York City. Jack, good to be with you. A lot of our viewers probably are going to be surprised to learn this is the first time the two of us have actually met.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: I know, six months ago we started ago THE SITUATION ROOM. It's a pleasure to have you in New York City.
BLITZER: You're much taller in person.
CAFFERTY: I'm actually the same size, whether I'm there or on T.V., but appear -- you only see from here up.
BLITZER: I know, but you're very tall.
CAFFERTY: Well, it's six something, two, three.
BLITZER: You're taller than I am.
CAFFERTY: Well, everybody's taller than you are. You're not very tall.
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CNN-IBN Car Set on Fire
Source: Televisionpoint.com Four miscreants on Tuesday afternoon sprinkled petrol and set on fire a vehicle belonging to the CNN-IBN channel in the state capital of Uttar Pradesh and hit the camera assistant on the head with an iron rod. The miscreants then sped away on motorbikes.
Angry journalists blocked the road in front of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Bhavan which houses the chief min ister's secretariat and demanded arrest of the culprits within 24 hours. They have also demanded security for the channel team.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has strongly condemned the incident and has asked officials to take action against the culprits at the earliest.
According to sources, the camera assistant Anil Saini and driver Guddu Kashyap had gone in an Indica car (UP 32-BQ -- 9834), bearing the CNN-IBN sticker, to Pee Kay Bhavan (which houses the telephone department) on busy Madan Mohan Malviya Marg around 1 pm. The two were waiting in the car when four young boys arrived on two motorbikes and broke the door panes with an iron rod.
Even before the camera assistant and the driver could realise what was happening, the boys threw in petrol and then a lighted match stick. The two occupants of the car managed to get out of the vehicles, seconds before it caught fire. "We would have been roasted alive if we had not got out in time," said Anil Saini.
The boys then beat up the driver and hit the camera assistant on the head with an iron rod before speeding away on the motorbike. "They kept saying that they would teach us a lesson because we had exposed someone," the driver said.
The channel meanwhile, said that threats had been coming ever since the channel exposed the illgotten wealth of BSP leader Mayawati.
Angry journalists blocked the road in front of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Bhavan which houses the chief min ister's secretariat and demanded arrest of the culprits within 24 hours. They have also demanded security for the channel team.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has strongly condemned the incident and has asked officials to take action against the culprits at the earliest.
According to sources, the camera assistant Anil Saini and driver Guddu Kashyap had gone in an Indica car (UP 32-BQ -- 9834), bearing the CNN-IBN sticker, to Pee Kay Bhavan (which houses the telephone department) on busy Madan Mohan Malviya Marg around 1 pm. The two were waiting in the car when four young boys arrived on two motorbikes and broke the door panes with an iron rod.
Even before the camera assistant and the driver could realise what was happening, the boys threw in petrol and then a lighted match stick. The two occupants of the car managed to get out of the vehicles, seconds before it caught fire. "We would have been roasted alive if we had not got out in time," said Anil Saini.
The boys then beat up the driver and hit the camera assistant on the head with an iron rod before speeding away on the motorbike. "They kept saying that they would teach us a lesson because we had exposed someone," the driver said.
The channel meanwhile, said that threats had been coming ever since the channel exposed the illgotten wealth of BSP leader Mayawati.
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Cingular Calls on Turner Broadcasting to Supply Mobile Video Content
Source: AJC Cingular Wireless LLC has struck a new video content deal with Turner Broadcasting System Inc., the companies said March 7.This will give Cingular's Video on-demand customers the chance to watch programming from CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, NASCAR.com and Turner Classic Movies on their mobile phones.
"Turner's extensive portfolio of networks includes the leading brands in the categories of news, sports, animation and entertainment," said Dennis Quinn, executive vice president of business development for TBS. "Through this valued partnership with Cingular, Turner Broadcasting is extending these popular brands to reach more customers when and how they want to be reached."
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"Open House" Gets Exclusive Sponsor
Source: Media Week CNN's ad sales arm has signed a one-year lease with Century 21 Real Estate, finalizing a marketing partnership that includes television, broadband, online, on demand and content licensing opportunities.
As part of the deal, Century 21 will become the exclusive sponsor of CNN's Open House, a half-hour Saturday morning series about residential real estate issues. Besides a number of traditional 30-second spots, the Century 21 brand will also pop up in integrated billboards and tagged tune-ins.
Century 21 billboards will also appear in the segments "Top Five Real Estate Tips" and "Home Front," which run throughout the week on all CNN networks.
The deal also covers the broadband space, as streaming clips from Open House will be seeded with Century 21 messaging.
On the local side, the company's pool of some 143,000 real estate agents will be able to customize their home office Web sites with select stories about the industry culled from CNNMoney.com.
As part of the deal, Century 21 will become the exclusive sponsor of CNN's Open House, a half-hour Saturday morning series about residential real estate issues. Besides a number of traditional 30-second spots, the Century 21 brand will also pop up in integrated billboards and tagged tune-ins.
Century 21 billboards will also appear in the segments "Top Five Real Estate Tips" and "Home Front," which run throughout the week on all CNN networks.
The deal also covers the broadband space, as streaming clips from Open House will be seeded with Century 21 messaging.
On the local side, the company's pool of some 143,000 real estate agents will be able to customize their home office Web sites with select stories about the industry culled from CNNMoney.com.
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
CNN/US for the International Viewers?
In the last of a series of articles on Digital Spy deals with the subject of utilizing CNN PipeLine to distribute CNN/US programming. Here's what CNN.com's David Payne has to say about the subject:
"Our principle thought on it is that every user in the UK or not has said this is great, please give me more," explained Payne. "There's a voracious appetite for content, whether it's for the US network in the UK, or International in the US, CNN Turk in Turkey or IBN... so the short answer is that we hear the consumer demand, now we need to figure out how we can satisfy it and also keep our other partners happy and our business strong. And we're going to work through those strategies.""
Read the full article HERE.
"Our principle thought on it is that every user in the UK or not has said this is great, please give me more," explained Payne. "There's a voracious appetite for content, whether it's for the US network in the UK, or International in the US, CNN Turk in Turkey or IBN... so the short answer is that we hear the consumer demand, now we need to figure out how we can satisfy it and also keep our other partners happy and our business strong. And we're going to work through those strategies.""
Read the full article HERE.
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