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BlueHighways Drives Pembroke Telephone Distribution Deal Ameicana Network To Launch Later This Month Multichannel News
BlueHighways TV has inked a distribution pact with Pembroke Telephone Co.Pembroke, which serves consumers in North Bryan County, Georgia, will launch the network, which focuses on the people, stories, traditions and music of America, later this month. Deal terms were not disclosed."The Bryan County, Georgia market is a perfect fit for BlueHighways TV. Our original Americana programmin..... TCA: Paula and Bubba and Katy, Oh My Broadcasting & Cable The Television Critics Association has its annual awards recognizing highs in industry quality. And with the press tour now wrapped up in Pasadena, here are my own TCA kudos from last week's broadcast network presentations. Most Shocking Event: You're not going to believe this, but there was an entire TCA session featuring Fox honchos Kevin Reilly and Peter Rice and not one ..... Twitter: Friend And Foe Media outlets use it, and get scooped by it Broadcasting & Cable Twitter ruffled a few more journalistic feathers this week when American Idol judge Paula Abdul became the latest household name to usurp the breaking news power of traditional media by making a big announcement on the social networking site. “I think it's kind of a watershed moment,” says Rob Silverstein, executive producer for Access Hollywood. ̶..... Michael Eisner Is Still All Ears Former Disney chief bullish on stations, M&A market in media industry Broadcasting & Cable While television stations are having their challenges along with any other advertising-dependent business, former Disney chief Michael Eisner actually likes their potential entering a time in which he foresees a lot of merger-and-acquisition movement in the media sector. With his new stop-motion comedy Glenn Martin, DDS set to debut Aug. 17 on Nick at Nite, Eisner spoke with ..... Ad Industry Gears Up for Battles With Washington Health care, behavioral marketing and kids' TV among myriad fronts Broadcasting & Cable Up to now, advertisers and agencies have dodged a bullet on one of the administration's marquee issues: health-care reform. They've mounted a successful campaign to block an amendment that would help pay the tab for health care with billions in new taxes on TV drug ads. But the battling has only begun, and a years-long war over ad-related issues that could threaten billions of dol..... Stations Grapple With Internet-Advertising Pipe New delivery services consume bandwidth, labor Broadcasting & Cable At the same time that standard-definition syndicated delivery services are being overhauled in favor of new high-definition systems, local broadcasters are increasingly contending with a new delivery method for commercials. The television industry's broad shift over the past decade from tape-based ingest, storage and playback to file-based, server-centric operations has paved the way f..... Beetle Juice VW plant means major jobs for Chattanooga Broadcasting & Cable Stories of automotive plants closing are all too familiar across the U.S., but Chattanoogans are chuffed about the arrival of a new Volkswagen facility. Volkswagen announced last month that it plans to open its first U.S. plant, a billion-dollar operation that's expected to create 2,000 jobs—and thousands more for those doing ancillary business with VW. The first cars are to roll..... Sunbeam's Ansin Still Walks the Walk Old-school broadcaster fights for his hometown stations Broadcasting & Cable The local TV business is every bit an uphill climb these days, and Sunbeam Television owner Ed Ansin is preparing for the slog as best he can. Ansin recently returned from hiking the hills of Bar Harbor, Maine, with WSVN General Manager Robert Leider and others, and will do the same in Jackson Hole's Grand Tetons with his son Andy in late August. Ansin, 73, builds endurance thr..... Emmy's Winning Idea Broadcasting & Cable Last week, many in Hollywood's creative community rose up and protested the decision by the Television Academy to pre-tape and edit down parts of this year's Sept. 20 Emmy Awards telecast on CBS. In particular, the writers' guilds on both sides of the country sounded off on the decision to put eight awards in the category of not-ready-for (live) primetime. This may not ..... Television's 'Rock' Star Tina Fey on Jay Leno's new show, Jeff Gaspin replacing Ben Silverman, and why she doesn't want any part of hosting the Emmys in 2010—she thinks. Broadcasting & Cable Saturday Night Live alum Tina Fey, the creator, writer, executive producer and star of NBC comedy series 30 Rock, is having a darn good year in TV. Her show earned 22 Emmy nominations last month, the most any comedy series has ever received. In addition, the off-network rights to 30 Rock starting in 2011 were sold to Comedy Central and WGN America on cable, while Fox an..... Setting Media All a-Twitter Multichannel News The emergence of social media companies like Twitter and their ability to offer users information in short, quick bites — most of it mundane but some of it often newsworthy — has forced traditional media outlets to take a closer look at the way they conduct business and disseminate content to their primary customers. ESPN did its self-examination of such new media publicly..... Broadstripe’s Lifetime Offer MSO Guarantees Triple-Play Price of $130 Until Death Multichannel News Broadstripe is offering consumers the deal of a lifetime. The Charlotte, Mich.-headquartered cable operator last week instituted “Broadstripe Forever,” a first-of-its-kind price guarantee program for its bundle of (V)ideo, high-speed (I)nternet access and (P)hone services — or VIP. Under this plan, Broadstripe is presenting new and existing customers in its Michiga..... HBO Gets Flashy With Adobe for 'TV Everywhere' Multichannel News HBO will provide encrypted video 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 encrypted ..... RCN Will Follow TiVo's Path Provider Aims to Launch HD DVRs By Start of 2010 Multichannel News RCN will be the first cable provider to take TiVo's high-definition digital video recorders — essentially the same ones sold on retail shelves — and offer them to subscribers as the de facto DVRs. The operator is aiming to begin offering TiVo HD DVRs to customers in the first quarter of 2010, as early as Jan. 1, for between $3 and $5 per month in addition to the reg..... MASN Whiffs Against Comcast Sources Say FCC Bureau Urges No Carriage Mandate Multichannel NewsWashington— Comcast may have received a big boost in its carriage fight with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network last week. According to industry sources, the Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau has told an agency administrative law judge that the cable operators should not be forced to carry MASN’s regional sports net on the systems at issue...... Channeling the Channel Multichannel News Oftentimes, the language of technology mixes inextricably with the language of life. “Network” is a good example: there are the networks of television (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox), and then there are the physical networks that carry TV networks, over air or wires, to homes. This week’s translation is a back-to-basics look at another multidimensional, cross-disciplinary word:..... TiVo Patent May Be Invalid PTO Preliminary Review Rejects 'Time Warp' Claims Multichannel News In the latest wrinkle in the years-long legal fracas between Dish Network and TiVo, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office last week issued a preliminary rejection of two claims in TiVo's so-called “Time Warp” patent. TiVo said the patent office's action “is a preliminary finding, entered in the normal course before TiVo has had any opportunity to present..... Analysts Differ On Dish Network Multichannel News Dish Network's followers are divided. Two highly respected media analysts — Credit Suisse's Spencer Wang and Sanford Bernstein's Craig Moffett — offered two differing views on the No. 2 satellite-TV provider last week, with one holding out hope Dish can salvage the rest of the year and the other stating that the hurdles may just be too high. Wang was..... TCA: ABC Asks Abdul To Come 'Dancing' Mcpherson speaks about network's internal issues Broadcasting & Cable
ABC has "reached out" to Paula Abdul about joining "Dancing with the Stars" in some capacity.
ABC Entertainment Group topper Steve McPherson told reporters Saturday that he's interested in bringing the former "American Idol" judge to "Dancing" as either a judge or a contestant.
"I was a little stunned," McPherson said of the split between Abdul, Fox and "Ido..... Dance queen Lady GaGa fashions booming career Cortney Harding NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sprawled on her bed in an Amsterdam hotel, Lady GaGa is channeling Lady Godiva - sans the horse.
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