BIZ WHO IS

Business - Comcast names Neil Smit Chief Executive Officer - December, 2011
Smit joined Comcast from Charter Communications where he served as Chief Executive Officer and Director from 2005-2010. Prior to Charter, he was President of Time Warner’s America Online Access Business overseeing America Online (AOL), CompuServe and Netscape ISPs

Business - Bob Pittman to Receive Top Honor from City of Hope - December, 2011
Pittman was named CEO of Clear Channel in October 2011. He is also a founding member of Pilot Group, LLC, a New York private investment firm, and is a highly regarded media innovator who has made a significant impact in a number of industries and companies. He led the team that created MTV and has served as CEO or chief operating officer of MTV Networks, America Online, Six Flags Theme Parks, Quantum Media, Century 21 Real Estate, Time Warner Enterprises and AOL Time Warner

TV - VIDEO BEAT EXTRA - Part 2 - RICHARD BRANSON DOES IT HIS WAY - AMAZING RACE USA FINAL - December, 2011
BALLS TO THE WALL LIKE A VIRGIN - Richard Branson took chances by putting his life on the line and spent time in jail just to be like a Virgin. In his rolling his dice for life he has come up with 7's and 11's while throwing a few snake eyes along the way. The result being he's a success story worth $4 billion. - A surprising final three vie for the Amazing Race USA title and the $1 million first prize after the most dominate team in the race slip up in the semifinal - Recommended TV Listings

TV - VIDEO BEAT EXTRA - Part 1 - GAME CHANGERS - MARC ANDREESSEN & RICHARD BRANSON - December, 2011
THE GOING (FORWARD) GET TOUGH - Bloomberg TV's weekend programming is addictive. Their programs focus on the movers and shakers that created the most popular business in the world today. The information presented is inspiring and eye opening. They explore their strengths, weaknesses and faults - Recommended TV Listings

Business - Laura Lang Named CEO of Time Inc. - December, 2011
Ms. Lang has more than 20 years experience in senior leadership positions in digital and traditional advertising and marketing, and she is well-known for creating strong relationships between clients and consumers

TV - VIDEO BEAT MAX Part 2 - GOOGLE CO-FOUNDERS LARRY PAGE & SERGEY BRIN featured on GAME CHANGES - November, 2011
FROM DON'T BE EVIL TO BIG BROTHER - Bloomberg TV's Game Changers went overboard with their feature of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in making a one hour show while previous programs were consigned to a half hour. The allotted time of the program is justified as it reveals how one of the most powerful companies in the world came together and went sonic with success within two years as the two creators were on the road to become billionaires - Recommended TV Listings

TV - VIDEO BEAT EXTRA EXTRA Part 2 - BLOOMBERG TV'S GAME CHANGERS - November, 2011
THE TOUGH GET GOING - Twitter skyrocketed to popularity and was praised and by Internet users. The road was not so smooth for it's creator Jack Dorsey as Bloomberg TV's Game Changers program revealed - Game Changers also opened up the pages of the bumps in the road that Craigslist creator Craig Newmark experienced - Facing Genocide protagonist Theary Seng moves on to do another film - Recommended TV Listings

TV - VIDEO BEAT EXTRA EXTRA Part 1 - BLOOMBERG TV OFFERS FOOD FOR THE BRAIN PROGRAMMING - November, 2011
YEARN TO LEARN = $ - Bloomberg offers programming that defines the Internet age and those who have been instrumental in its development. Risk Takers and Game Changers are programs that feature stories of those individuals who have been instrumental in the development of THE INTERNET AGE as well as those who take on business challenges, face and overtake adversity - Elon Musk co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Facebook founder (?) Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg - Recommended TV Listings

Entertainment BIZ - Simon Fuller Partners with 19 Entertainment - April, 2011
To Guide the Career of the Winner of This Year’s ‘American Idol’

Entertainment BIZ: VIDEO BEAT - MTV @ THE BEGINNING - August, 1981
This MTV story was written in December 1980 after interviewing MTV's first President Bob Pittman about his programming plans of their to be launched 24-hour music television channel. The magazine held on to it before publishung it after the MTV launch August 1, 1981. Their reluctance in doing so they joined a long list of skeptics that said the channel couldn't be done and questioned who would watch music on television 24 hours around the clock? . .. Business - - TV

BIZ WHO IS - PAY TELEVISION - SelecTV was the beginning of PPVTV - August, 1979
With Pay TV being a NEW THING in Asia for some of us it is OLD SCHOOL. Pay TV is being implemented in the Philippines over ABS-CBN and also on Cambodia's CTN who are marketing their services outside of their countries. The Pay Per View business began in 1979 at SelecTV in Beverly Hills, California USA. Bill Mechanic the man responsible for releasing the blockbuster-hit film Titanic was the Director of programming at SelecTV. Read his column on programming and other news about the Pay TV industry in SelecTV's Choice Voice company NEWS. - Business Internet Technology