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RCN Picks TiVo As Its Primary DVR Provider Expects to Launch TiVo DVR in Early 2010 With Integrated VOD, Broadband Content Multichannel News
RCN has struck a deal with TiVo to offer co-branded high-definition DVRs, slated for launch in early 2010, that will provide integrated access to the service provider's video-on-demand library as well as broadband-delivered content.
With the content available via broadband sources, such as Amazon.com's VOD service, RCN will provide customers "a vast library of pro..... RCN Teams with TiVo Will market co-branded DVR in early 2010 Broadcasting & Cable
Mid-sized cable operator RCN and digital-video recorder (DVR) supplier TiVo announced that RCN will make TiVo its primary DVR platform and will begin offering customers a co-branded "TiVo DVR from RCN" in early 2010.
The TiVo DVR will integrate with RCN's video-on-demand library and also offer broadband content from services such as Amazon Video On Demand and Picasa We..... Bill Clinton Seeks Release of Imprisoned Current TV Journalists Former president travels to North Korea on private mission to free Laura Ling and Euna Lee Broadcasting & Cable
Former President Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea early in the morning of Aug. 4 to attempt to negotiate the release of jailed American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
The mission is a private one, but one undertaken with the blessing of the White House.
"While this solely private mission to secure the release of two Americans is on the ground, we will ha..... TCA: Emmys Trio Defends Changes to Awards Telecast Group Screens Sample Clip Of How 'Time-Shifted' Categories Multichannel News
TCA: Complete Coverage of the Summer Press Tour
CBS screened a roughly-edited sample clip how the so-called "time-shifted" Emmy categories will play in this year's kudofest, based on a real award given out on last year's telecast, during its TCA press tour session Aug. 3 dedicated to the awards show.
The session started minutes after the WGA West iss..... Writers Call Emmy Telecast A 'Symbolic Attack' WGAW Joins Eastern Brethren In Voicing Displeasure Over Not Televising Some Scribe Awards Multichannel News
TV writers stepped up their protest of the plan to cut some writing awards from the primetime Emmy telecast, calling it a "symbolic attack" on the value of writing.
The Academy has said the move would be an effort to keep viewers from tuning out the show early .
WGA West has joined the Writers Guild of America East in registering their displeasure with what they ..... TCA: CBS's Poltrack Says Online Video Will Drive Second Revenue Source For Broadcast Authentication, Premium Pricing For Web Streams Key To New Broadcast Model Multichannel News
TCA: CBS' Poltrack Says Online Video Will Drive Second Revenue Source for Broadcast
Authentication, premium pricing for Web streams key to new broadcast model
By Melissa Grego -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/3/2009 5:03:52 PM EDT
TCA: Complete Coverage of the TV Critics Press Tour
Online video distribution is key to broadcasters finally ..... Q&A: YES's Dolgin On Streaming Local Sports RSN's CEO Describes Game Plan Behind Streamed Yankees Games Multichannel News
YES Network, on July 8, became the first regional sports programmer to offer live broadcast streaming of a local pro team within its territory. Tracy Dolgin, president an CEO of the New York Yankees-owned regional sports network, recently spoke with Multichannel.com news editor Mike Reynolds about the deal with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, which controlled the digital rights ..... TV Showrunners Protest Emmy Time-Shift WGA West joins East Coast writers guild in registering anger at Academy of Television Arts & Sciences over plans to pre-record writing awards Broadcasting & Cable
Emmys: Complete Coverage
TV writers stepped up their protest of the plan to
cut some writing awards from the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards telecast, calling it a
"symbolic attack" on the value of writing.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has said the move would be an effort to
keep viewers from tuning out the show early.
WGA West has
joine..... HBO Goes With Adobe For 'TV Everywhere' Premium Programmer to Offer Streaming Video to Distributors in Encrypted Flash Format Multichannel News
HBO will provide encrypted video content to distribution partners for "TV Everywhere"-style services using Adobe Systems' Flash multimedia platform, although the premium programmer said it's amenable to working with other Internet-video technologies.
HBO's broadband-video complement for TV subscribers, dubbed HBO Go , will use Flash and the Adobe-developed en..... Comcast, MASN Will Get Until Aug. 7 To Request Redactions Enforcement Bureau has until Aug. 12 to release recommendations Broadcasting & Cable
As expected , the judge who presided over the hearing on the MASN vs. Comcast program carriage complaint, has given the Enforcement Bureau until Aug. 12 to release its recommendations on the case to the public.Sources have told B&C/Multi that the bureau recommended denying mandatory carriage of MASN on the Comcast systems in question. It already recommended against mandatory carri..... EchoStar 'Encouraged' By FCC's iPhone Apps Inquiry Company says SlingPlayer application was denied while other similar ones approved Broadcasting & Cable
EchoStar joined the rooting section for the FCC's inquiry into reports of Apple's rejection of Google's voice application for the iPhone.The FCC sent letters to Google, Apple and AT&T, with which Apple has a handset deal for the iPhone, asking for information by Aug. 21 in light of its ongoing proceedings on wireless open access and handset exclusivity. The Justice ..... FCC Allows Louisiana Duop Grants sale of KPXJ to Minden Television Broadcasting & Cable
Citing evidence of a bleak financial picture and no prospective out-of-market buyer, the FCC has agreed to waive its duopoly rule and has granted the sale of KPXJ Minden, La. to Minden Television.Minden already owns KTBS Shreveport, and since the sale would leave fewer than eight independently owned TV's in the market, the deal would ordinarily run afoul of the FCC's station..... McTear to Receive Sherman TV Leadership Award Raycom Media president to be recognized at NAB small market conference in October Broadcasting & Cable
Raycom Media President Paul McTear will receive the Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award at the National Association of Broadcasters' Small Market Television conference (for stations in markets 70-plus) in San Antonio in October."Paul McTear's commitment to community and dedication to local television excellence make him an ideal choice for the Chuck Sherman Award," sai..... TruTV Sends Jesse Ventura's 'Conspiracy' To Series Developing two other projects with A. Smith & Co. Broadcasting & Cable
TruTV has given a series order to
Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura
, a series which will send the former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler around the world examining various conspiracy theories. The series will premiere on TruTV in late 2009.
The network is also developing two other projects with A. Smith & Co., t..... FCC Lines Up Participants For First Broadband Workshop U.S. Chief Information Office Kundra to speak Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC has lined up its participants for the first of many staff workshops on the national broadband deployment plan currently on the drafting board.There are 18 workshops planned for August and early September, designed to put staffers together with stakeholders and the public to brainstorm on the many and varied issues implicated in the plan, which must be in to Congress by Feb. 17..... FCC Recommends Against Mandatory MASN Carriage: Sources RSN, Comcast Scheduled To Talk Aug. 4 Multichannel News
According to industry sources, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau has told an FCC administrative law judge that it does not believe regional sports programmer Mid-Atlantic Sports Network made its case for mandatory carriage on some Comcast systems.
Unless the complaint is settled beforehand, there must still be a decision by that judge, and by the FCC's new full complem..... FCC Lines Up Panelists For First Of 18 Broadband Workshops Government, Non-Profit Sector Participants Are Set Multichannel News
The FCC has lined up its participants for the first of many staff workshops on the national broadband deployment plan currently on the drafting board.
There are 18 workshops planned for August and early September, designed to put staffers together with stakeholders and the public to brainstorm on the many and varied issues implicated in the plan, which must be to Congress ..... Sources: FCC Recommends Against Mandatory MASN Carriage Multichannel News
According to industry sources, the FCC's Enforcement Bureau has told an FCC administrative law judge that it does not believe regional sports programmer Mid-Atlantic Sports Network made its case for mandatory carriage on some Comcast systems.Unless the complaint is settled beforehand there must still be a decision by that judge, and by the FCC's new full complement of five commis..... Clyburn Sworn In As FCC Commissioner Becomes first African-American woman to hold post Broadcasting & Cable
It's now official, the FCC has all five commissioners.As advertised, Democratic South Carolina utility regulator Mignon Clyburn was sworn in Monday as the first African American woman FCC commissioner.That swearing-in came at the Matthew J. Perry Jr. Courthouse in Columbia, S.C., and was administered by Matthew J. Perry himself, a pioneering civil rights attorney and judge."I am ..... E! Goes To 'Reality Hell' Show skewering reality competitions bows Aug. 16 Broadcasting & Cable
E! is going meta for its latest reality series. The network has ordered
Reality Hell
, a reality show that mocks other reality shows. Each week one unsuspecting person will be "competing" on what they believe to be a reality show, when in actuality the other contestants are all actors, and the entire program is staged. As the show progresses, .....
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