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Howard Stern Launches Video-on-Demand Film Festival

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 22, 2006 - 5:15am.
New York - Radio shock jock Howard Stern, whose show is now broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio and on the In Demand video-on-demand service, on Wednesday announced plans to hold the first Howard Stern Film Festival. The festival will accept films under five minutes in length that deal with storylines related to Stern's show. Winners will be broadcast on Howard TV On Demand, a video-on-demand service offered by Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox and Adelphia that features 40 video episodes of Stern's show and other programming for $13.99 per month.
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Wired News, CNET Report from 2006 Sundance Film Festival

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 18, 2006 - 3:35am.
Park City, Utah - Wired News and CNET News.com on Wednesday reported from the Sundance Film Festival, which opens Thursday in Park City, Utah and runs through the end of January. More than half of the films at this year's festival will be screened digitally, while 30% were made using a digital format. The sixth year of the online portion of the festival will offer streaming versions of 50 of the 73 entries from the Shorts Program, and many shorts will have their online and theatrical premieres simultaneously. Wired News also profiled Roger Ingraham, the 19-year-old director of "Moonshine," a vampire film shot in digital for just $9,200.
tags: Reports | CNET | Film Festival | Wired News | Sundance |