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ACA Wants MSOs To Be Able Import In-State, Out-Of-Market Station Signals Polka Letter: Cable Also Should Be Afforded That Option If Congress Grants Satellite Permission Multichannel News
The American Cable Assocation wants to make sure that if Congress allows satellite operators to import in-state, out-of-market broadcasters, it extends the same courtesy to cable operators.In a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Judiciary and Energy & Commerce Committees, ACA President Matt Polka said that if they decide to allow satellite operators to import i..... ACA Wants MSOs To Be Able To Import In-State, Out-Of-Market Station Signals Polka Letter: Cable Should Have That Option If Congress Grants Satellite Permission Multichannel News
The American Cable Assocation wants to make sure that if Congress allows satellite operators to import in-state, out-of-market broadcasters, it extends the same courtesy to cable operators.In a letter to the chairs and ranking members of the Senate Judiciary and Energy & Commerce Committees, ACA President Matt Polka said that if they decide to allow satellite operators to import i..... 'Next Iron Chef' Grills Food Network's Top Series Premiere Ratings Second-Season Oct. 5 Debut Draws 2.1 Million Viewers Multichannel News
The second-season premiere of The Next Iron Chef heated up the best numbers for a series bow in Food Network history.
The Oct. 4 telecast averaged 2.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen data. The show posted a 1.1 rating among adults 25 to 54.
The premiere of the competition series improved 33% over its debut on Oct. 7, 2007, according to network..... TBS Scores 2009's Most-Watched MLB Regular-Season Telecast With Tiebreaker Thriller 6.5 Mililon Tune In Twins Taming Of The Tigers In 12 Multichannel News
TBS connected with the biggest regular-season Major League Baseball audience of 2009, via its coverage of last night's 12-inning showdown between the Detroit Tigers-Minnesota Twins for the American League Central title.The Oct. 6 contest drew a 4.2 U.S. household rating and some 6.54 million watchers, the biggest baseball telecast on TV, broadcast or cable, during the 2009 regual..... Showtime To Place Viewers Behind The Comedic Green Room Door Series Will Show How Comic Legends Interact, Joke With Each Other Multichannel News
No, it's not a tribute to the late Marilyn Chambers. Rather, Showtime will give viewers a look at how comics interact backstage.The premium network has ordered six half-hour episodes of a comedy series, tentatively titled Behind The Green Room Door, which is slated to bow in 2010. Hosted by comedian Paul Provenza, the director and co-producer of the behind-the-scenes comed..... Media Council Hawaii Asks FCC to Block Raycom/MCG Shared Service Agreement Group says shared services partnership would do "imminent" harm to viewers Broadcasting & Cable
Public Interest Group Media Council Hawaii is asking the FCC to block Raycom and MCG Capital's shared service agreement, in which Raycom, which owns NBC affiliate KHNL and MyNetworkTV affiliate KFVE would also operate CBS affiliate KGMB, owned by MCG.In a filing with the FCC to be announced later today in Hawaii, the group asks the FCC to enjoin the two companies from executing t..... BigBand's SDV Deployments Hit 25 Million Time Warner to Deploy Solution in New York, L.A. and Dallas Multichannel News
With the recent announcement that Time Warner Cable is
planning to deploy BigBand Networks' switched digital video solution in its Los
Angeles, New York City and Dallas
systems, the vendor's SDV solution will be available in around 25 million U.S.
cable homes.
The number of homes where SDV has been or will be deployed
is notable because it illustrates the incre..... Twins-Tigers Matchup A Ratings Home Run Most-watched tiebreaker game since 1998 with 6.543 million viewers Broadcasting & Cable
The tiebreaker game between the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers to determine the winner of the American League Central Division was a ratings home run for TBS, which televised the game. The game, which the Twins would win in dramatic fashion in 12 innings, drew 6.543 million total viewers, making it the most-watched regular season game on broadcast or cable this season, an..... More Forward Motion for 3-D TV T-VIPS Demonstrates JPEG2000 3-D HD Transport Multichannel News
T-VIPS, a video-transport provider from Norway,
has demonstrated a commercially ready means of transporting 3-D stereoscopic
content using the JPEG2000 format.
The system -- which is ready for deployment -- compresses 3-D
content to the JPEG2000 format using T-VIPS JPEG2000 gateways. It is
then transported over a high-bandwidth Internet-protocol link and decoded by
another..... Media Council Hawaii Asks FCC to Block Raycom/MCG Capital Service Agreement Group says shared services partnership would do "imminent" harm to viewers Broadcasting & Cable
Public Interest Group Media Council Hawaii is asking the FCC to block Raycom and MCG Capital's shared service agreement, in which Raycom, which owns NBC affiliate KHNL and MyNetworkTV affiliate KFVE would also operate CBS affiliate KGMB, owned by MCG.In a filing with the FCC to be announced later today in Hawaii, the group asks the FCC to enjoin the two companies from executing t..... Kagan: HDTV Sales to Rebound in Late '09 Second-Half Surge Will Drive Unit Sales, Study Says Multichannel News
In another sign that the economy is showing at least some
signs of improvement, a new SNL Kagan study predicts that improved HDTV
sales of in the second half of 2009 will boost overall unit sales to 29.0
million.
That's a healthy uptick from the 26.2 million HD sets sold
in 2008 .
"People who have put off these kinds of purchases for the
last year and a hal..... NASCAR Looks To Consistent TV Scheduling In 2010 Uniform Starts By Time Zone Location Could Improve Ratings Multichannel News
Hoping scheduling continuity will equate to ratings gains, NASCAR and its TV partners will drop the flag on race starts at uniform times, beginning with the 2010 NASCAR Spring Cup Series races.
The stock car circuit, working in conjunction with its TV carriers Fox, Turner Sports, and ESPN/ABC, will begin their telecasts of Sprint Cup races at 1 p.m. (ET), when the events a..... Cox's Hatfield Replaces Bowick On SCTE Foundation Board Multichannel News
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers announced that Cox Communications chief technology officer Scott Hatfield has been appointed to the SCTE Foundation board of directors, filling a vacancy created when Chris Bowick retired as Cox's CTO and stepped down from the Foundation board this past June.
Hatfield joins the 11-member board of the SCTE Foundation, the org..... NASCAR Schedules 20 1 p.m. Races For 2010 Season CEO pledges more consistent scheduling in effort to grow ratings Broadcasting & Cable
In an effort to grow struggling ratings, NASCAR and its broadcast partner executives are scheduling more consistent race times for the 2010 season. They are also scheduling races earlier in the day, in response to research and feedback from fans. Twenty Sprint Cup events are slated to begin at 1 p.m. ET next season, said NASCAR Chairman/CEO Brian France in a conference cal..... Totsch Named KCTV/KSMO GM Belo sales vet in for Kirk Black in KC Broadcasting & Cable
Robert G. Totsch has been named vice president and general manager at Meredith’s KCTV/KSMO Kansas City. He succeeds Kirk Black, who shifted to WGCL Atlanta.
The duopoly is comprised of a CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliate.
Totsch, 46, was director of sales, marketing, promotions, Internet and local entertainment programming for Belo’s KMOV St. Louis, w..... No Bull: Dish Rides PBR Pact DBS Provider Becomes Official Satellite TV Partner Of Bull Riding Tour Multichannel News
Dish Network has steered a deal with Professional Bull Riders Inc. to become the official satellite television partner of the PBR
The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, covers the remaining stops on this year's Built Ford Tough Series, the 2009 PBR 2009 PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals, as well as all events on the 2010 BFTS tour.
The agreement come..... Cable Ratings: 'Mo'Nique Show' Boosts BET Oct. 5 debut for new late-night talker attracts 1.5 million viewers, including 850,000 in the 18-49 demo Broadcasting & Cable
The series premiere of BET's new late-night talker,
The Mo'Nique Show
, delivered for the MTV Networks-owned cabler.
The show attracted 1.5 million viewers, including 850,000 in the 18-49 demo, in its 11 p.m. timeslot on Oct. 5. While final Tuesday numbers are not in yet, it is believed to have grown day-to-day.
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Planet Green has greenlit docuseries Beekman 1802 to join the network's primetime lineup in late spring.
Beekman Farm is anirreverent peek into the world of Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge, a fish-out-of-water couple who are reviving a farm in upstate NY in order to create a new organic lifestyle brand, ‘Beekman 1802'. The series, produced by Fenton Bail.....
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