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Comcast Digital Exec Karin Gilford Goes To ABC

in Media on January 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm PT

Disney, which has been shuffling its digital staff, lands an exec from Comcast, which is moving around lots of bodies itself: Karin Gilford, formerly a Santa Monica-based online SVP for the cable giant, will move to Burbank, where she’ll work head up digital for the ABC broadcast network, reporting to Albert Cheng. Gilford’s Comcast portfolio included Fancast, the would-be Hulu; prior to Comcast, she had run entertainment at Yahoo.

BoomTown "Terrorizes" Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable (Video of This and More, of Course)

in News on March 1, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Here’s a whole lot of video on a panel on the future of online video that BoomTown moderated last week in San Francisco. It was organized by Andy Plesser, the kingpin of Beet.TV, the online video news site. Plesser moderated the second half of the two-hour (!!!) session, and I did the first hour. One tweet of the event noted: “The Beet.TV just started and @karaswisher is already terrorizing the panelists.” I beg to differ!

iPhone Mania

in News on July 15, 2008 at 11:00 am PT