Posts Tagged ‘JB Perrette’

This morning we headed over the Grand Hyatt for the CableFAX “Best of the Web Awards” breakfast. The bacon was sizzling, the coffee was hot and the awards show itself was another interesting look at how the business landscape is changing — how companies, in this case cable networks and operators, are moving from programming solely for television to creating more and more original content for the Web and mobile devices.

Before the awards were presented, CableFAX Editorial Director Seth Arenstein and Executive Editor Michael Grebb had a Q&A with JB Perrette, president of NBCU Digital Distribution. In between the awards, Arenstein and Grebb presented 23 up-and-coming cable executives with a “Digital Hot List” award.

There were 16 awards presented. ESPN.com, CNN.com and Discovery Communications took home multiple awards.

We tweeted the entire event, including all the winners. Click continued to see the list.

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The bickering continues after all: CNET News reports that Apple wasn’t exactly thrilled with NBC’s claims that the media conglomerate was able to change pricing policy at Apple.

The backstory: NBC Universal executives implied they agreed to start selling downloads of TV shows on iTunes only after being allowed more flexibility to set prices. “That’s just not correct,” Eddy Cue, the vice president in charge of Apple’s iTunes Store, said Wednesday evening in the article.

He said that while “most TV shows sell for $1.99 on iTunes,” retailers have always been allowed to sell videos for less, citing Viacom episodes of South Park and MTV’s The Hills as examples. “We’ve never told anyone they can’t lower prices,” Cue said, the subtext being that Apple didn’t want NBC to be able to raise prices.

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