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Mobile usage a rare highlight in music biz Antony Bruno DENVER (Billboard) - The mobile music landscape is very much a study in good news, bad news. The bad news is that mobile m Bet, MTVN Unveil Centric Soft Launch for Net for African-American Adults Multichannel News BET and MTV Networks today (Sept. 28) are very quietly soft-launching Centric, their new basic-cable network aimed at African-American adults. BET is rebranding and evolving its 32 million-subscriber BET J network under the Centric moniker, which will target African-American viewers with music and lifestyle programming, according to Centric general manager Paxton Baker. The ..... BET, MTV Unveil Centric Soft Launch for Net for African-American Adults Multichannel News
BET and MTV Networks are
very quietly soft-launching Centric, a new basic-cable network aimed at
African-American adults, on Monday (Sept. 28).
BET is rebranding its nearly 32 million subscriber BET J network
under the Centric moniker , which will target African-American viewers with
music and lifestyle programming, according to Centric general manager Paxton
Baker.
..... Cablevision Seeks to Encrypt B'cast Basic Multichannel News Cablevision Systems has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission seeking an exemption to the agency's rules prohibiting the encryption of basic broadcast channels, arguing that scrambling the full digital-TV lineup would cut costs and deter signal theft. According to the operator's filing, last year it performed more than 1 million truck rolls associated wi..... Mayweather-Marquez Tops 1 Million Buys Multichannel News Floyd Mayweather's return to boxing was a success inside the ring and at the box office, as his decisive win over Juan Manuel Marquez drew more than 1 million pay-per-view buys, HBO PPV said. The Sept. 19 fight, in which Mayweather — who had retired from the sport in 2007 — used his speed and size advantage to pound out a unanimous decision over Marquez, is the first ..... Arris Buys Paul Allen’s DVRs Vendor Acquires Digeo for $20M to Pursue IP-Video Strategy Multichannel News Arris agreed to buy PaulAllen’s Digeo digital video recorder venture for about $20 million in cash, a move the cable-technology supplier expects will speed up its efforts to deliver video-based home gateways. The deal was considered quite a bargain for Arris, given that Digeo’s revenue run rate is about $20 million per year (around $5 million per quarter, Arris executive..... Debt Sales Could Fuel Future Acquisitions Multichannel News The debt train kept on a-rollin' last week, with a handful of media giants issuing notes that at least one analyst believes could be making room for acquisitions. Last Friday Viacom announced that it would issue $550 million in new notes, to be used to pay down its existing credit facility. Earlier in the week DirecTV completed a $2 billion note offering, in part, to buy ..... Senate Panel OKs Satellite Act Lawmakers Leaving 'Orphan Market’ Issue Be — For Now Multichannel NewsWashington— The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Satellite TV Modernization Act out of committee last Thursday (Sept. 24) with an additional provision instructing the Copyright Office to produce a study on phasing out the compulsory copyright license for satellite distant network TV stations’ signals. The bill, like the version that earlier passed the House J..... Cablevision Challenges FCC on Program Access Multichannel NewsWashington— Cable was looking to go two for two last week, as lawyers for Cablevision Systems took on the Federal Communications Commission’s five-year renewal of program-access rules barring exclusive contracts between cable providers and co-owned networks. That came in oral arguments in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which hears c..... The State of State Multichannel News You can’t wander far in today’s advanced-services lingo without running into “cross-platform” and “multiplatform” as ways to describe services that can move between display devices. And once in that engine room, you probably won’t get far before bumping into “state.” Here’s a common example from a recent batch of note..... Cable's IPTV Future Operators Increasingly Embrace Internet Protocols for Video Multichannel News Cable-technology executives used to recoil at any mention of the term “IPTV.” A few years ago, Internet-protocol television was an architecture championed mainly by telcos — as a competitive threat to cable's core video services. IPTV is no longer a four-letter word in cable circles. Increasingly for operators, the evolution to delivering video over an all-IP ..... Good Cop or Bad Cop? Multichannel News There's a new sheriff in town. And he may have already decided who the “bad guys” are. Last week, Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski hauled the network-neutrality debate out of cold storage, proposing to establish rules “preserving a free and open Internet.” As my colleague John Eggerton documents, reaction to Genachowski's ..... Managing People Change Multichannel News Cox Communications consolidated 18 cable markets into 14 during 2009. Partly by allowing employees to relocate — with more opting to move several hours away, to keep their jobs, than might be the case in a better economy — the overall reduction to Cox's 22,000-employee workforce was “minimal,” senior executives said. Cox trimmed its employee base by 1% to 2% throu..... Signing Up New Business Cox Drives Awareness of Commercial Services Multichannel News While other cable companies are betting the local pizza parlor will be the key to success for their fledgling commercial-telephony ventures, Cox Business vice president Philip Meeks knows where his future lies: In portable billboards, crawfish boils and good, old-fashioned customer service. Business telephony has long been anointed as the next new growth engine for cable. For some o..... Maximum Spectrum As It Finishes Massive 1-GHz Upgrade, Cox Gears Up for Wireless Multichannel News Cox Communications' technology team has nearly finished building out the highest-capacity coaxial cable infrastructure of any major U.S. operator, running at 1 Gigahertz across about 86,000 miles of plant. There's no rest for the weary. Now, the company is getting ready to tap into a different kind of spectrum — the wireless variety. Cox is putting in place s..... Playboy TV Channel Is Surfing the Web Multichannel News Playboy TV wants to take its brand of adult-targeted original content to the Web. The service is talking to operators about launching an all-inclusive linear and online option tied into the network's monthly premium channel, according to Playboy TV vice president of programming Todd Schwartz. With 70% of the network's viewers watching Playboy TV on a monthly subscrip..... A Happy New Year for Nina Tassler Broadcasting & Cable When you are born into a Jewish family of any kind, certain inevitabilities tend to come with the territory. You're probably not going to be the tallest kid at school. A career as a pro athlete? Yeah, that's most likely not in the cards. And chances are, you'll end up being pretty neurotic. That last bit of fate is exactly what plagued current CBS Entertainment Presiden..... Meyer, Scanzoni Added to OnScreen Summit Join opening keynoter Chase Carey at Oct. 21 event Broadcasting & Cable Barry M. Meyer, Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Rino Scanzoni, Chief Investment Officer of GroupM North America, have joined the lineup for the 2009 OnScreen Media Summit in New York. The second annual day-long event, presented by B&C and Multichannel News, will be held Oct. 21 at the Edison Ballroom. Meyer is slated to be the luncheon speaker, ..... 'Kimmel' Grabs Bud Light Concert series and live spots part of new sponsorship Broadcasting & Cable While the industry is keeping close eyes on branded integrations for the new Jay Leno Show, another talk show host has just landed a new on-air partner. Bud Light and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live have struck a wide-ranging deal that will see the beer brand sponsor the show's concert series and be featured in a series of live commercials. The deal replaces Kimmel's pr..... FNC Pushes Widescreen Will deliver letterboxed standard-def feed Broadcasting & Cable Fox News Channel is aiming to optimize the on-air product for its growing high-definition audience while continuing to serve the majority of viewers still watching standard-definition, 4:3 sets. So the network has decided to produce all of its programming in high-definition using the 16:9 aspect ratio, and deliver a downconverted, letterboxed version to standard-de.....
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