Sharing a film with another TV organization is in a different category, given the potential for cannibalizing each other's audiences, but she said she expected the Univision arrangement, which she called an "experiment," to bring "Frontline" new viewers.
Gene DeWitt, president of another TV organization in New York, the Syndicated Network Television Association, which represents companies like Disney and Viacom that sell shows to local stations, said: "The odds are pretty good there's going to be a negative effect on ratings for our shows, because of the diversion of the audience to war news.
The decision was made about two-and-a-half years after the satellite TV organization bought the flailing DVD rental business for $228 million in cash.
The attack on Harqous drew widespread condemnation from journalists, politicians and press freedom organizations, with scores gathering in front of the news channel's headquarters to express solidarity with the Future TV organization.
"Baghdadia TV channel also demands that the international and Iraqi television organizations cooperate in seeking the release of Muntader Zaidi".
Iraq has been, according to some executives, the most expensive war ever for TV news organizations.
Other TV news organizations, including ABC News and CBS News, are essentially also-rans on the Web.
This probably helps explain why Condoleezza Rice, the President's national-security adviser, made a conference call the other day to the presidents of five major TV news organizations.
He later said his speaker's bureau had arranged the trip and that he saw no distinction between RT and TV news organizations like CNN.
We are confident that public relations professionals are fully disclosing the source of video news releases to TV news organizations, which then have the responsibility to provide full disclosure to their viewers.
Since Sept. 11 it has been doing a brisk business with international TV news organizations, who are using its network to transmit video phone images from places as remote as Kabul and Khandahar.
