Word: ceos
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...TiVo, which plans to sell shares in an IPO, the early lead in the competition, noting that it has outstripped Replay in sales and investment partnerships. Last week, apparently to boost its dealmaking power with Hollywood, Replay named Kim LeMasters, former president of CBS Entertainment, as its chairman and CEO. "They have not brought me in for my ability to figure out what bugs are on the CPU," LeMasters says. "They brought me in for that portfolio I brought from Hollywood and for my different mind-set and my ability to examine the marketplace...
...Microsoft, not in the hardware but the software: the interface, program databases, associated content like TV "magazines" to guide users and advertising. (Neither system currently shows ads, but each has discussed future possibilities, including sponsorships.) "Our strategy is to embed it into other boxes," says TiVo CEO and cofounder Mike Ramsay. "We're going to build it into television sets and DVD players...It will eventually get embedded into every device." Ultimately, several companies will manufacture the boxes under license. Philips currently makes TiVo's box, and this month TiVo signed another deal with Sony; Replay has a similar agreement...
Factoring in inflation, the $70 million that Cablevision spent on the renovation is almost exactly what the entire building cost when new. But while most of us are gaping at Hardy's delicious restoration, Cablevision CEO James L. Dolan will be focused on where the bulk of the money went--into an entirely new electrical system engineered to transmit high-definition-television versions of Music Hall spectaculars over his company's cable systems. But what Dolan can't wait to see, he says, is the HDTV view of that other great work of Music Hall art--the Rockettes...
...successors as varied as Seinfeld, Friends and Wasteland, which debuts on ABC on Oct 7. And echoes of My So-Called Life, this decade's ur-teen drama, resonate in Dawson's Creek, Felicity and the like. "We consider that show the ultimate standard of quality," says Tony Krantz, CEO of Imagine Television, which produces Felicity. "Ed and Marshall are role models...
...probably harder to get her than to get our VC," says Kris Hagerman, the CEO of Affinia. "I bought her lunch and pitched her for an hour and a half." Kellogg waived her fee and, VC-like, took equity in lieu of cash...