Staci D. Kramer
Mar 2, 2009 9:23 AM
Industry vet Scott Schiller is joining Comcast Interactive Media (NSDQ: CMCSA) as SVP-advertising sales, responsible for Fancast, Fandango, Movies.com and Plaxo. Schiller is leaving ad network Glam Media, where he was promoted to EVP-global marketing last September. Schiller will be based in New York but will build a national sales…
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Tricia Duryee
Sep 3, 2008 5:39 PM
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is getting ready to launch Fancast Mobile, a mobile application which will allow users to watch live programming on your phone, and schedule recordings on your DVR, reports Gizmodo..Comcast has been talking about this possibility for a while now. There’s not too many details on the mobile…
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Rafat Ali
Jul 17, 2008 11:30 AM
Karin Gilford, the former GM of Entertainment at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) who left earlier this week, is joining Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) as we reported earlier. Now her position there is official: she is joining as as SVP of Fancast and Online Entertainment. Gilford will build and manage Fancast, the online…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 14, 2008 7:00 PM
Ken Li from *Reuters* and I were the only reporters to meet with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) chairman and CEO Brian Roberts just after his CES keynote. He brushed off a question from Ken about the disconnect between what Comcast is doing and how the market sees the company, explaining: “Today’s…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 7, 2008 11:41 PM
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) launched its much-touted video portal Fancast in beta in August last year...it was a slightly buggy version without the promised TV shows and other longer form video. Now at CES, it is relaunching it and adding TV shows from NBC, CBS (NYSE: CBS), Fox, the Hulu JV, …
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