Tuesday, April 29, 2003

TiVo Names an NBC Executive as President

TiVo named Martin J. Yudkovitz as its new president. Yudkovitz previously was Executive Vice President at NBC, where he played leading roles in the creation of CNBC, MSNBC Cable and MSNBC.com. He also led the business side of NBC's two largest television endeavors, the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. TiVo said it plans to focus on aggressively deploying its digital video recorder service through industry partnerships with satellite and cable companies and other licensing opportunities.
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  • TiVo has a subscription base of approximately 624,000 users.