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BROADCAST/CABLE
Several of HBO’s top digital execs have resigned as the company is consolidating operations in its New York headquarters under its new leadership. Digital initiatives prexy Jim Moloshok, business development VP John Penney, and EVP new media programming Carmi Zlotnik are all leaving the company in an exodus of its execs who were leading the pay cabler’s online media efforts. (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967209.html?categoryId=14&cs=1 6/18)
Amid all the news about networks’ upfront ad sales, cable advertising has actually outperformed network advertising through the first quarter of this year. Nielsen recently reported national cable TV ad spending jumped 2.5% in the first quarter of this year, while network-TV ad spending dropped 8.5%. (CNNMoney.com 6/18)
Verizon Chief Technology Officer Mark Wegleitner said high-definition video-on-demand might become a reality sooner rather than later via the company’s FiOS service. “I don’t think there are technical obstacles. … The network could support it now,” Wegleitner said. (The Washington Post/Reuters 6/18)
AT&T filed an FCC complaint Monday arguing that Cablevision subsidiary Rainbow Media Holdings was denying access to popular sports programming to AT&T’s video offering in Connecticut. A spokesman for Rainbow said that the company had agreements with numerous other distributors, but that it had questions about various aspects of AT&T’s proposed rollout and previous distribution performance. (The New York Times/Reuters 6/18)
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