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[TVHarmony] Tivo announced that they've hired Tom Rogers as its new CEO. With Tom Rogers track record at NBC and Primedia, it's a good indication that Tivo will stay focused on building partnerships.
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[rexblog.com: Rex Hammock's Weblog] Mulligan management: Mulligan management: Tom Rogers, former chairman and CEO of Primedia, has been named president and CEO of TiVo. Let's hope one learns from ones mistakes.
[ :: Business News and Information :: All about the Business World] Thomas S. Rogers - TiVo: The TiVo (tÄ-vÅ) personal video recorder is a consumer video component allowing users to capture television programming to internal hard drive storage. TiVo systems can function similarly to VCRs, but use non-removable hard-disk storage, and contain much more sophisticated software to record programming - not only programs the user specifically requests, but also other material the user is likely to be interested in.
[Edbott.com] Ed Bott: More on the TiVo-Comcast deal: [that] integrates major media platforms, including Internet, broadcast and cable television and radio, to deliver powerful ways for partners to connect with users and customers." It melded together a portal-type site called Snap.com, a retailer called Xoom.com, and the Internet assets of NBC (minus, significantly, CNBC and MSNBC), and its "flagship site" was Snap.com. Part of this week's announcement is that the once-touted Snap name is being done away with, because it's "far from a well-known brand," as Lansing put it in the conference call.
[Spinfluencer.blogspot.com] Spinfluencer: TiVo SDK and the Legend Behind the Long Tail: Founded by Eric Schwartzman, the former director of promotions at Rogers & Cowan, Schwartzman & Associates was established in 1999 to offer technology, media and entertainment clients responsible, senior-level counsel with an emphasis on online public relations and marketing campaigns. With over a decade of experience as a marketing professional on the client and agency side, Schwartzman is a known advocate and early adopter of leading-edge technology, who hasn't lost sight of the basics.
[Pvrblog.com] TiVo Archives | PVRblog: iPod) rather than gambling on unknown initiatives" and "Apple indicated that the DVR market seems to be a commodity whereby all players will eventually have similar hardware and software longer term." So now we have rumors that nothing will happen to contradict rumors that something will happen.
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