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Obama speech not great news for broadcasters Nellie Andreeva LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - President Obama's televised prime-time addresses are becoming a tougher sell to the broadcast networks than his sweeping hea AT&T 'Soft Launches' Video Portal Telco's Website includes content from broadcast, cable networks Broadcasting & Cable
AT&T has publicly launched the beta version of a video portal -- which serves up free TV shows and movies to any Internet user, and promises even more to U-verse TV customers -- with content from more than a dozen programming partners.
In addition, the AT&T Entertainment site, promises U-verse TV customers "bonus content" if they log in but doesn't spell out wh..... Verizon COO Strigl To Retire Telco has not named a replacement Broadcasting & Cable
Verizon Communications announced that president and chief operating officer Dennis Strigl plans to retire from the company by the end of 2009.
The telco did not name a replacement for Strigl. He is currently responsible for the operations of Verizon's wireless, telecom and business units as well as Verizon Services Operations, which provides financial, real estate and ..... CBS College Sports Reaches Higher In Houston With Comcast Network Upgrades To Digital Preferred; Football Schedule Includes 5 Rice, University Of Houston Football Games Multichannel News
CBS College Sports Network is expanding its subscriber base in Houston via an upgrade of its Comcast carriage.The network, channel 106 in the DMA, has been migrated to Comcast's Digital Preferred Level of service from its position on the operator's sports tier.The move will place CBS College Sports' coverage of college football games, including a number of Conference US..... FCC Issues Reminders to TV Stations, Cable Operators Nonexempt Spanish-language video has to be closed captioned and emergenc information has to be accessible to vision- and hearing-impaired Broadcasting & Cable
Under its new mantra of communications, communications and more communications, the FCC issued two public reminders Thursday to TV stations and cable operators, one of an upcoming deadline and the other of an ongoing obligation. The FCC reminded them in one public notice that all nonexempt Spanish-language video has to be closed captioned as of Jan. 1, 2010. In another, it..... Report: KEYE Cutting 5 A.M. News Too Radio stars get another hour on Austin TV Broadcasting & Cable
KEYE Austin announced Sept. 2 that it would replace an hour of morning news with the simulcast of a radio program from 6 to 7 a.m. starting Oct. 5. According to AustinPost.org, a KEYE spokesperson says the station is also doing away with a local newscast from 5-6 a.m. to repeat the previous day’s radio program in that hour. Jim McNabb quotes a KEYE publicist: “..... FCC Issues Guidelines to Stations, Cable Ops for Annual Regulatory Fees Companies who don't pay by Sept. 22 subject to 25% late fee Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC has issued its guidelines for stations, cable operators and others who have to pay their
annual regulatory fees by Sept. 22
.
Anyone who doesn't pay up by then is subject to a 25% late fee, according to the FCC.
The FCC said in July that it was not going to expand its hardship waivers for the fees to include stations that had h..... Video in Broadband Driver's Seat FCC workshop explores how video is shaping broadband deployment, adoption Broadcasting & Cable
How big is internet video to the future of broadband? Well, if the PBS's experience is any indication, "sick nasty" big. According to Angela Morgenstern, managing director of PBS Online and formerly with MTV, their online audience wants "everything ever made," and they want it in high definition, full screen and top quality, and they have little patience for delay.That was her m..... Cox Launches MyPrimetime In Las Vegas, San Diego Pushes 'TV Anytime' Strategy to Two of Its Biggest Markets Multichannel News
Cox Communications is giving digital cable customers in Las Vegas and San Diego -- two of the operator's biggest markets -- access to its MyPrimetime service, which delivers on-demand access to top shows within 12 hours of linear broadcast.
The service provides replays of shows, with fast-forwarding disabled to retain ad impressions, from networks including ABC, NBC, C..... Bravo Taps Holland As VP, Program Planning, Scheduling Executive Joins NBCU Net From Animal Planet Multichannel News
Bravo has named Whitney Holland vice president of program planning, scheduling and acquisitions.
In her new job, Holland will be responsible for building both short-term and long-term program planning rollouts for the network, and along with Bravo senior vice president, program strategy and acquisitions Jerry Leo, to whom she will report, will spearhead the strategic vision..... Gerald Dash, 'Cable Guy,' Dies Cable TV Pioneer and Sales Executive For Many Cable Firms Was 68 Multichannel News
Gerald Dash, whose long cable
career began with early franchising efforts and selling HBO subscriptions, died
on Aug. 30 at his home in Tucson, Ariz., of a terminal illness, family
members said. He was 68.
Inducted into the Cable
Television Pioneers in 2005, when he was a senior VP of training at RCH Cable
Outsourcing Services, Dash began his cable career selling door to ..... Gerald Dash, Longtime 'Cable Guy,' Dies Cable TV Pioneer and Sales Executive For Many Cable Firms Was 68 Multichannel News
Gerald Dash, whose long cable
career began with early franchising efforts and selling HBO subscriptions, died
on Aug. 30 at his home in Tucson, Ariz., of a terminal illness, family
members said. He was 68.
Inducted into the Cable
Television Pioneers in 2005, when he was a senior VP of training at RCH Cable
Outsourcing Services, Dash began his cable career selling door to ..... MTV Gives Birth To 'Teen Mom' '16 and Pregnant' spinoff reconnects with subjects Broadcasting & Cable
MTV has greenlit Teen Mom, a spinoff of the cabler's popular reality skein 16 and Pregnant.
Mom will look back at the four teens featured on Pregnant and see how they're facing the challenges of their first year of motherhood. Each installment will interweave the developing stories of the new moms.
Cabler has ordered eight hourlong episod..... 'SNL' Adds Pair of Femmes Jenny Slate, Nasim Pedrad join cast Broadcasting & Cable
Saturday Night Live is upping its femme quotient by adding Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad as cast regulars.
With Amy Poehler off the show -- after the first two Thursday Weekend Update editions -- NBC's venerable latenight sketch show is increasing its troupe size.
Slate recently starred in her own one-woman show, Dead Millionaire, at the..... Viewers Turn to Spike's 'Disaster' Premiere of catastrophe survival series nets 1.4 million viewers Broadcasting & Cable
The premiere of Spike TV’s new series Surviving Disaster delivered 1.4 million viewers and a 1.0 rating Tuesday night from 10-11p.m. The show averaged 20% more men in Spike’s coveted 18-34 demo and 68% more men 18-24 from one year ago.
The series drew a 0.9 rating among men 18-49 and a 0.8 in men 18-34.
In the 18-34 male demo, the..... FCC Focuses On Big-Picture Ideas At Broadband Workshop First round of workshops closes with talk of developments to shape broadband's future Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC started off the last of its first round of broadband workshops with some big picture pondering of ideas and outside-the-box developments that could shape the future of broadband. They included the bifurcation of the Internet into a number of nets, insuring the plan was sufficiently flexible to deal with the fluidity of change, and the need for more research and development. &#..... FLO TV Hires MTVN's Kim Qualcomm's Mobile TV Unit Taps Alice Kim As SVP Of Strategy, Corporate Development Multichannel News
Qualcomm's FLO TV mobile-television unit hired Alice Kim, most recently in charge of MTV Networks' digital-media distribution strategy, as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development.
Kim will report to FLO TV president Bill Stone , whom Qualcomm hired earlier this year.
The FLO TV service is currently offered by Verizon Wireless and AT..... Primetime Ratings: 'Glee' Pilot Replay Sings Into Second 'America's Got Talent' results show wins night Broadcasting & Cable
A repeat of the pilot of Fox's highly-promoted fall cornerstone
Glee
earned a 1.8/5 rating in the 9 p.m. hour, just hanging on to a second-place finish in the time slot. The viewer total, 4.1 million, was fourth in the hour.
The pilot originally aired in late May and scored a 4.3/11 with 10.7 million viewers at the time; th..... Di Scipio Named Fox TV Stations VP for Legal and FCC Compliance Had been communications law firm wireless, digital regulation specialist Broadcasting & Cable
Joseph Di Scipio has been named VP for legal and FCC compliance, for the Fox TV Stations, reporting to CEO Jack Abernethy.Di Scipio, whose appointment is effective immediately, was most recently with communications law firm Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, focusing on wireless, wireline and digital regulation.He is also a former field agent and attorney with the FCC. Fox owns 27 statio..... ESPN Reaches Four-Year Deal to Extend NFL Rights in Europe Cabler will carry around 100 games per season overseas Broadcasting & Cable
ESPN America said it had reached a four-year deal to extend its NFL rights to carry approximately 100 games per season in Europe.ESPN America will televise four-six games per week in the regular season as well as playoff games, including the Super Bowl, as well as the draft and programming from NFL Films.The agreement covers English-language broadcast rights in more than 40 countries......
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