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Comcast Bows 14 New International Channels In Bay Area Additions Part Of 'World Of More' Digital Upgrade Initiative Multichannel News
Comcast, bolstering its international roster of networks, has launched 14 "more" services in the San Francisco Bay area.
Part of a recent digital upgrade under the Project Calvalry reclamation initiative , area customers are also seeing their channel lineup change for 18 other services to better group to channels that share a similar language or country of origin.
<..... BBC America Tops 1 Million Viewer Mark With Pair Of 'Torchwood' Installments Miniseries, 'Dr. Who,'?? 'Being Human' Drive Network's Best Week Ever Multichannel News
BBC America's recent miniseries bow torched it with viewers.
The U.S. debut of Torchwood: Children of Earth averaged just short of 1 million viewers, lifting the network to its best week ever.Across the five-installment run from July 20-24, Torchwood: Children of Earth, boosted by the Thursday and Friday night episodes, averaged 981,000 viewers, according..... Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Scores With Redskins Extension RSN Broadens Programming Offerings, Becomes Official Local HD Provider Of Preseason Games Multichannel News
Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic has expanded its media and marketing partnership with the National Football League's Washington Redskins.
Under the new multiyear agreement, terms of which were not disclosed, Comcast SportsNet is the exclusive local Redskins HD provider for preseason contests, including the upcoming games against the Baltimore Ravens on Aug. 13, the defe..... Octomom on Fox radar Two-hour special set to air August 19 Broadcasting & Cable
Fox is reviving Octomom mania with a two-hour special on Nadya Suleman that will air Aug. 19.
Octomom:
The Incredible Unseen Footage is a no-host documentary based on
footage generated during the more than six months that a crew from
RadarOnline.com spent living with Suleman and her family since January,
when she gave birth to octuplets after already having had six ..... DirecTV Creates CEO Search Committee Interim CEO Hunter to Get $1Million Incentive Multichannel News
DirecTV has created a special committee to search for a permanent replacement for former CEO Chase Carey, and has carved out a $1 million incentive payment for interim CEO Larry Hunter.
According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Monday, DirecTV said it formed the special committee on Aug. 5 consisting of chairman John Malone and non-employee directors Nei..... BET Networks Signs News Talent Karen Saunders, Jason Samuels Join BET News Division Multichannel News
BET Networks Signs News Talent
Karen Saunders, Jason Samuels Join BET News Division
By R. Thomas Umstead
BET Networks announced Monday that veteran news producer Karen Saunders and award-winning broadcast news producer Jason Samuels has joined the BET News division.Saunders, former staff producer, field director and writer for ABC News and 20/20 and mo..... TNT Re-Ups Hawthorne Freshman Medical Series Averaging 3.8 Million Viewers Multichannel News
TNT Re-Ups Hawthorne
Freshman Medical Series Averaging 3.8 Million Viewers
By R. Thomas Umstead
TNT Monday announced it will return its freshman drama series Hawthorne for a second season in 2010.
The "drama" network has ordered 10 additional episodes of the series, produced and starring Jada Pinkett Smith as a caring but no-nonsense Chief..... Disney Channel To Bow Puppet Series, Where Is Warehouse Mouse? Character Comes From Playhouse Disney's Imagination Movers Multichannel News
Disney Channel will pose the question Where is Warehouse Mouse?, when it bows the new short-form series later this month.
Featuring the puppet character from the "Playhouse Disney" show Imagination Movers, the spinoff series will spotlights Warehouse Mouse as he tries his hand at creative problem solving like his mentors from the progenitor show. Each episode ..... Ratings: 'iCarly' Special Sets Show Record Saturday Night 7.9 million viewers tune in, series best Broadcasting & Cable
Nickelodeon’s popular iCarly was basic cable’s number one kids show Saturday with 7.9 million viewers tuning in to special, “iFight Shelby Marx.” That viewer total set a new series record.
The show registered large increases in delivery over the same date last year (+435%) and over its closest time-period competitors (+146%). The show attract..... iCarly Special Draws Kicks Up Nearly 8 Million Viewers Sets Audience Mark For Cosgrove-Starring Series On Nickelodeon Multichannel News
Nickelodeon’s Aug. 8 special of its hit tween series iCarly drew a series record 7.9 million viewers, according to the network.
The special, iFight Shelby Marx, bested the 7.6 million viewers posted by the Nov 8, 2008 iCarly special iGo To Japan.iFight, in which series star Carly Shey (Miranda Cosgrove) mixes it up with mixed martial arts competito..... TNT Renews 'HawthoRNe' Will return for second season in 2010 Broadcasting & Cable
TNT is bringing back freshman drama
HawthoRNe
back for a second season, the network says.
The network has given a 10-episode second season order, which will premiere in 2010.
The first season performed solidly, if not spectacularly, for TNT, attracting an average total audience of 3.8 million viewers.
"Haw..... Sources: Don Imus Radio Show May Be Headed To Fox Business Network 'Imus in the Morning' could begin on FBN as early as September Broadcasting & Cable
Don Imus is in negotiations to bring his Citadel Broadcasting radio show to Fox Business Network, according to sources.
If the deal is finalized the irascible radio personality could begin appearing on FBN as early as September.
An FBN spokeswoman would only say: “We are always talking to interesting talent.”
Representatives for Imus decli..... RCN Adds Mun2 To Its Carriage Roster Op Strikes Deal With NBCU To Coincide With Coverage Of Mexico-U.S. World Cup Qualifier Aug 12 Multichannel News
NBC Universal has reached a deal with RCN to launch mun2, its bicultural lifestyle service aimed at Latinos 18 to 34.
Under the deal, terms of which were not disclosed, RCN will make mun2, which currently counts some 32 million subscribers, available to its subscribers on its Signature (expanded basic) level of service in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, D.C. and..... Cable Upfront: Winners And Losers Dollars predicted to be down 5% to 10% Broadcasting & Cable
The major cable groups are done with the bulk of their negotiations and most succeeded in keeping CPM rollbacks in the same range as broadcast networks. “The big ones are done, and now you’re starting to see the smaller deals beginning to take shape,” said one cable network sales executives. “Rollbacks are anywhere between flat to minus 8.”
The..... NYTVF Announces Pilot Competition Selections One winner will receive a development deal with Fox Broadcasting & Cable
The New York Television Festival has pulled back the curtain on its independent pilot competition selections. Each year the NYTVF selects a slate of independently produced TV pilots, with winners in various categories (comedy, drama, unscripted) and at least one selection walking away with a development deal at Fox.
Previous pilots have been put into development by NBC, IFC..... Dish Network net subscribers rise, shares up Alexandria SageNEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp added subscribers for the first time in more than a year, sending shares up as much as 11 percent, but its profit fell because of higher marketing expenses to win new customers.
Broadcom OK'd For Coax Home-Networking Spec Will Compete With Entropic as Second Supplier for MoCA 1.1 Silicon Multichannel News
Broadcom announced that its home-networking reference design platform for set-top box and broadband access products with integrated Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) connectivity has received MoCA 1.1 certification.
With the MoCA 1.1 certification, Broadcom becomes the second supplier for such silicon solutions, competing with Entropic Communications. Entropic, which has..... Big Ten Network Kicks Off Football Tour At Ohio State On-Air Talent Will Stop By Practice At All 11 Conference Schools In August Multichannel News
Big Ten Network announcers Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith are about to embark on 15-day, 3000-mille journey.
The trip will visit a football practice from each of the conference's 11 member schools next month for a series of 90- minute shows sizing up the squads. Kicking off Aug. 11, the shows from the "Big Ten Football Tour" will air the same night as..... Primetime Ratings: 'Millionaire' Returns To Primetime With No Lifeline ???Shark Tank,' ???Neighborhood' premieres both underwhelm Broadcasting & Cable
The much-hyped primetime revival of ABC's
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
, featuring the return of long-time host Regis Philbin, failed to garner much attention Sunday night, delivering a 1.5/5 rating, giving it a fourth place finish in the 8 p.m. hour. That number was, however, higher than last week's time-slot average of 1.0/3 for ..... Dish Network Sees Sub Increase, Q2 Stock Soars Beats estimates with 26,000 sub gain Broadcasting & Cable
Dish Network beat most analysts' estimates for the second quarter, reporting a 26,000 rise in net new subscribers, and its stock soared more than 6% ($1.21 per share) to $19.63 each in early trading Monday.Analysts' had expected the second quarter would be another one of heavy losses for the satellite TV giant, with consensus estimates for a loss of 131,000 subscribers.While.....
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