Hal Licino FollowHal has more than three decades of executive experience in media and publishing industries. He managed all aspects of marketing / advertising and editorial / design production for major NYC and LA-based publishing corporations, producing 26 monthly magazine and journal titles for a total of more than 100 million published copies. Hal has pennamed an international bestselling non-fiction book translated into 11 languages. His IT expertise exceeds MCDST. He lives for cats, pasta and Harleys.
Buddy TV Scoops $2.8 Million from GemStar TV Guide
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Gemstar-TV Guide International has allocated $2.8 million in Series A funding to Seattle-based BuddyTV, part of the Advanced Media Research Group Inc.
BuddyTV is an online content network providing broadcasting tools and user-complemented content. Gemstar-TV Guide is an international publisher best known in North America for its long-established TV Guide brand.
What makes this investment of considerable interest is that Gemstar-TV Guide is a long established leader in television industry conventional publishing which is now backing a television-related new media startup.
Perhaps more important than the cash funding will be the access which BuddyTV will now have to the highest echelon of the industry, which should certainly help them succeed in a very competitive online market.
It is highly likely that Gemstar’s investment in Buddy TV is somehow linked to its planned video search venture, likely using Buddy TV to compliment its video search engine.
Hal has more than three decades of executive experience in media and publishing industries. He managed all aspects of marketing / advertising and editorial / design production for major NYC and LA-based publishing corporations, producing 26 monthly magazine and journal titles for a total of more than 100 million published copies. Hal has pennamed an international bestselling non-fiction book translated into 11 languages. His IT expertise exceeds MCDST. He lives for cats, pasta and Harleys.
Hal Licino FollowHal has more than three decades of executive experience in media and publishing industries. He managed all aspects of marketing / advertising and editorial / design production for major NYC and LA-based publishing corporations, producing 26 monthly magazine and journal titles for a total of more than 100 million published copies. Hal has pennamed an international bestselling non-fiction book translated into 11 languages. His IT expertise exceeds MCDST. He lives for cats, pasta and Harleys.
