CBS, CNN, NBC honored at business news Emmys
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NEW YORK  - CBS, CNN and NBC won two awards apiece and PBS scored one in the fourth annual Business & Financial Emmys ceremony Thursday in Manhattan.
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Representatives of older and new media companies detailed their embraces of the Internet Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, with supposed old-line companies emphasizing opportunities and dismissing any threats to longstanding business models.Executives from CBS, Comcast, Joost, and Current participated in panel sessions on media operations and the Internet. While the Internet might be seen as potentially taking viewers away from traditional broadcast and cable television, panelists noted that TV viewership still accounts for several hours per person daily and continues on its 30-year trend upward.Comcast and CBS officials both noted that the Internet can extend their businesses."We love the Internet for a variety of reasons," said Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media, which is responsible for the cable TV provider's Internet businesses. People use Comcast's pipe to access the Internet and Comcast is the largest residential ISP, she said.But Comcast also believes in cable TV and that it will be around for a while, she said. "People thought that with television, radio would disappear and with cable television, broadcast television would disappear, and we all know that that hasn?t happened," Banse said.The Internet has enabled CBS to extend beyond its largely U.S.-based audience and to gain "new eyeballs," said Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, which covers Internet operations. "We, CBS, have not found the Internet to be cannibalistic to television," Smith said.Persons who see a two-minute clip of a CBS show, such as "How I Met Your Mother," might be encouraged to watch the program, he said. He recalled how a recent clip of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton showed up on YouTube and drew a lot of traffic; this was embraced by CBS, which carries Letterman's show.Asked by panel moderator Josh Quittner, of Fortune magazine, if she was worried about Google, Banse dismissed this."You want me to be a dinosaur running scared. I'm really not," she said. Google has been a "wonderful partner" for Comcast, with people accessing the search site via the Comcast pipe, said Banse.?In a subsequent panel session, officials from Joost, which provides broadcast-quality Internet television service, and Current, which blends broadcast TV with interactive Internet communications, shared their companies' visions."We wanted to bring the magic of the Internet to television, not the dumbness of television to the Internet," said Joel Hyatt, co-founder and CEO of Current. A community has been fostered to submit video that can be viewed on Current TV.Joost, meanwhile, is making peer-to-peer-based video distribution software that can run on PCs and the Macintosh, said Mike Volpi, Joost CEO. High-quality is streamed, with some of it professionally created by companies such as CBS and Viacom. Other content is developed by persons who are not so familiar. Joost is trying to develop an advertising-supported model.Both Joost and Current embrace advertising as a business model."I believe advertising is definitely the way to go," Volpi said. Advertising thus far has not blended well on the Internet because it has been offered in the form of banner ads or keywords, he said. But there are plenty of ad dollars to be gained by going after targeted users, he said.
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Two CBS series, the  comedy "Rules of Engagement" and the legal drama "Shark,"  received some good news Tuesday as the network firmed up its  post-strike production plans.
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CBS and PBS each took five awards at the annual news and documentary Emmys, where PBS' Bill Moyers was presented with a lifetime achievement award.
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NBC Universal and News Corp. have announced the inclusion of several cable networks in their online video venture expected this summer.
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Former Vice President Al Gore gets a special Emmy for the 'interactive television services' of his Current TV network.
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Time Warner Inc.&#39;s HBO cable network led the 56th annual primetime Emmys with 16 awards, helped by its mini-series ``Angels in America&#39;&#39; and its crime drama ``The Sopranos,&#39;&#39; -- the shows with the most awards.
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The cable network&#39;s &quot;Sopranos,&quot; &quot;Sex and the City&#39;&#39; and &quot;Angels in America&quot; dominated the 56th annual Emmy Awards on Sunday.
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Coverage of deadly tsunamis that  pummeled South Asia fueled a sharp crest in CNN's audience this  week, capping a year in which its ratings and those of rival  cable networks fell from war-driven heights in 2003.
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LOS ANGELES - The increasing popularity of HBO was evident at the Emmy Awards on Sunday, with the American cable network&#39;s drama series The Sopranos and the miniseries Angels in America dominating the awards gala.
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Limousines filled with television&#39;s biggest stars rolled up to the red carpet on Sunday for the 56th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, a night many pundits expect to be dominated by the premium cable network HBO.
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In an elegaic night for network television, the Emmys on Sunday honored HBO&#39;s &quot;Angels in America&quot; and &quot;The Sopranos,&quot; Comedy Central&#39;s Jon Stewart and gave major comedy awards to actors on comedies that have stopped production.
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By Mark McGuire, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 17--CBS dominated, NBC rebounded. The NFL Network starting showing live games, even though cable subscribers in this and many other markets can't get it.
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HBO and NBC led the pack at  the 66th annual Peabody Awards on Monday, with HBO capturing  five nods and NBC four.
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NEW YORK -- I was lucky enough to find myself here Monday night at the Gerald Loeb awards, the Pulitzers of business journalism. Too bad the Bancrofts of Boston couldn't have been here, too.
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NEW YORK  - Boosted by "Navy NCIS," CBS  won the primetime ratings race Tuesday, according to  preliminary data from Nielsen Media Research.
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Boston Globe columnist Steve Bailey last night was named a winner of a Gerald Loeb award for commentary, considered one of the highest honors in business journalism.