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New SHVERA Draft Bill Ties Local-Into-Local Service To Short-Market Fix Would Allow Dish Back Into Distant Signal Business By Delivering Local TV Stations In All 210 DMAs Multichannel News
A house Judiciary Committee draft of a SHVERA bill (now named the Satellite Home Viewer Digital Television Act) ties local-into-local service to all 210 DMAs to a short-market fix and does not create an opt-out of the compulsory license for stations with single-source licenses.A new draft of the House version of the bill reauthorizing satellite operators' compulsory license to de..... Actor Swayze Dies 'Dirty Dancing,' 'Ghost' Star Last Appeared In A&E Series Multichannel News
Actor Patrick Swayze
, who most recently starred in A&E's drama series
, died Monday night after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/14/patrick.swayze/index.html)
Swayze, the star of such blockbuster movies as Dirty Dancing and Ghost in the 1980s and 1990s, played tough FBI agent Charles..... IBC 2009: NDS Details Sky Deutschland Deal Will supply middleware for new pay-TV service Broadcasting & Cable
IBC Amsterdam 2009: Complete Coverage of the IBC Show
NDS announced at IBC that Sky Deutschland deployed NDS' MediaHighway middleware for the new pay-TV service (a rebrand of the former Premiere) it launched in Germany and Austria this summer.
As part of the deal, Sky and NDS redesigned the user interface and EPG for all MediaHighway-based satellite STBs ..... IBC 2009: Harmonic Targets Multiple Formats, Platforms Unveils new transcoding tools Broadcasting & Cable
IBC Amsterdam 2009: Complete Coverage of the IBC Show
Compression supplier Harmonic demonstrated at IBC new products for handling a variety of formats within a multichannel operator's traditional plant and for delivering programming to new platforms such as the Web or mobile phones.
The company's Agile Compression Engine (ACE), a new transcoding techn..... Forrest Carr Joins KGUN Will hold news director position Broadcasting & Cable
Forrest Carr, news director at KRQE-TV Albuquerque, has joined KGUN in the same capacity. It is a homecoming for Carr, who was news director at the station from 1997 to 2001 before exiting to join WFLA-TV Tampa as news director. Carr developed the "On Your Side" viewer advocacy program at the station the first time around, saying he was looking to "rekindle" that effort now ..... Wiley Rein & Fielding Adding Four Attorneys to Communications Practice All finishing clerkships with Supreme Court of federal appellate courts Broadcasting & Cable
Wiley Rein & Fielding is adding four attorneys to its communications practice, all of whom are just finishing up clerkships with either the Supreme Court or federal appellate courts.The four are William Consovoy, Claire Evans, Brendan Carr and J. Michael Connolly, three of whom--all but Evans--are former associates returning to the firm.Consovoy is returning as a partner effective..... Oregon Public Broadcasting to Give $2 Million in Funds For Archive Project Money to noncommercial TV and radio stations to restore and digitize content Broadcasting & Cable
Oregon Public Broadcasting will hand out $2 million in funds to 22 noncommercial TV and radio stations for phase two of its project to restore, digitize and archive content from the station vaults.Phase one, which was conducted this summer, consisted of stations searching through hundreds of hours of footage, focuses on the Civil Rights Movement and World War II.Footage from 22 statio..... Cable Ratings: MTV VMAs Improve Over 2008 Nearly 9 million watch Video Music Awards on MTV Broadcasting & Cable
Returning to its origins in New York City seemed to work for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The 2009 VMAs delivered strong ratings for the cable network Sunday, Sept. 13.
The awards drew 8.97 million viewers on MTV. That is up 5% from the 2008 installment of 8.43 million. The show was also simulcast on VH1 (1.3 million viewers) and MTV2 (749,000 viewers), with the cumul..... RegrArticle Title:1636516 RegrArticle Deckhead:1636516 Broadcasting & Cable
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ACA Presses FCC On Key Issues Group Discusses Program Bundling, Retransmission-Consent Fee, Internet Business Models With Lake Multichannel News
American Cable Association executives met with the new chief of the FCC Media Bureau, Bill Lake, last week, to make their case against bundling of programming, Internet business models they argue boost costs to operators and consumers, and retransmission-consent fees they say fall disproportionately more heavily on smaller operators.
ACA has singled out ESPN360 as one of th..... Wood Named MAP Associate Director Has background in broadband deployment, cable programming contrac negotiation, new tech issues, wireless spectrum, universal service an more Broadcasting & Cable
Media Access Project (MAP) has named Matthew Wood as new associate director. He is formerly with the D.C. law practice of Hogan & Hartson and before that Dow, Lohnes & Albertson.His background includes broadband deployment--a hot-button issue given the FCC's national broadband plan due to Congress Feb. 17, 2010--as well as cable programming contract negotiation, new..... Ray Romano Is Haney's Next Project Golf Channel Series Will Feature Everybody Loves Raymond Star Multichannel News
Ray Romano is the next celebrity to gain a helping hand from Tiger Woods's swing coach Hank Haney.
The Emmy Award winner and Everybody Loves Raymond star has signed on as Haney's next celebrity golf student, following in the rather large shoes of Charles Barkley.
Scheduled to debut in spring 2010, the series will follow the same format that made ..... Outdoor Channel Climbs Up Comcast's Pacific Northwest Systems Network Added To MSO's Digital Preferred Service in Oregon, Washington Multichannel News
Outdoor Channel has expanded its presence on Comcast systems, serving the Pacific Northwest.The network, which had been positioned on the top cable operator's sports tier, is now also available on its Digital Preferred level of service in Portland, Salem and Corvallis, Ore. and Vancouver and Longview, Wash.
The move on Sept. 1 coincided with the launch of Outdoor Chann..... WE Rings Up Multiplatform Support For Second Season Of Tutera Series PerezHilton.com, GGP Mall Tour Backs 'My?? Fair Wedding with David Tutera' Bow On Sept. 27 Multichannel News
WE TV will walk the second season of its original wedding makeover series down the aisle with multiplatform support.My Fair Wedding with David Tutera, which bows on the women's-targeted network on Sept. 27 at 10 p.m., will be backed by a homepage redesign of celebrity gossip blog PerezHilton.com. Under the creative direction of WE tv and David Tutera, site visitors will initially..... HBO Unveils 'Bored To Death' On Various Platforms Pilot Available On-Demand Prior To Sept. 20 Debut On Premium Network Multichannel News
HBO is reaching out to a number of platforms to give new comedy series Bored To Death a dose of exposure before it bows on the premium network on Sunday.
Debuting on HBO Sept. 20 at 9:30 p.m., Bored To Death will be available in the meantime on Apple's iTunes, Comcast's Fancast.com, Amazaon.com's video-on-demand service and HBO On Demand.
..... Outdoor Channel Climbs On Comcast Pacific Northwest Systems Network Added To Digital Preferred Service in Oregon, Washington Multichannel News
Outdoor Channel has expanded its presence on Comcast systems, serving the Pacific Northwest.The network, which had been positioned on the top cable operator's sports tier, is now also available on its Digital Preferred level of service in Portland, Salem and Corvallis, Ore. and Vancouver and Longview, Wash.
The move on Sept. 1 coincided with the launch of Outdoor Chann..... Ray Romano Signs On To Golf Channel Show Will appear in second season of 'The Haney Project' Broadcasting & Cable
Actor and comedian Ray Romano, who created and starred in the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond on CBS and will star in the upcoming Men Of a Certain Age on TNT, will appear on season two of The Golf Channel’s The Haney Project.
The unscripted series follows golfer Hank Haney trying to improve the Romano’s swing. Season one of The Haney Project featured NBA Hall of..... Primetime Ratings: NFL Scores Ratings Touchdown Bears vs. Packers game leads NBC to victory Broadcasting & Cable
The first weekend of the NFL dominated the Sunday primetime landscape as NBC's Bears vs. Packers matchup was the highest-rated show and, combined with the pregame "Football Night in America," was more than enough to give the Peacock a win.
Green Bay's 21-15 win over Chicago earned a 7.5 rating/18 share in the 18-49 demo, with 18.7 million watching, but the numbers..... HBO Unveils Bored To Death On Various Platforms Pilot Available On-Demand Prior To Sept. 20 Debut On Premium Network Multichannel News
HBO is reaching out to a number of platforms to give new comedy series Bored To Death a dose of exposure before it bows on the premium network on Sunday.
Debuting on HBO Sept. 20 at 9:30 p.m., Bored To Death will be available in the meantime on Apple's iTunes, Comcast's Fancast.com, Amazaon.com's video-on-demand service and HBO On Demand.
..... Beacon Award Finalists Named Cable Communicators' Group Will Announce Winners Oct. 26 in Denver Multichannel News
Finalists for 2009 Beacon Awards for excellence in cable communications
and public affairs have been named by the Association of Cable
Communicators, which will honor the winners at a gala on Oct. 26.
Cable operators and cable programming networks were cited 99 times as finalists for awards in 21 categories. The Beacon Awards will be given out in Denver at association.....
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