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Cable-Tec Expo 2009: SeaChange: RS-DVR Ready For Action VOD Vendor's Solution Uses Proprietary Set-Top Middleware Multichannel News
SeaChange International is showing a fully functional network DVR system here at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo that the company says is ready for operators to put into service today.
"We can walk in and set up a trial today," said Anthony Landamia, SeaChange senior manager of product management for interactive applications. "There's no smoke and mirrors."
The network-..... Cable-Tec Expo 2009: SeaChange: RS-DVR Ready For Action VOD Vendor's Solution Uses Proprietary Set-Top Middleware Multichannel News
SeaChange International is showing a fully functional network DVR system here at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo that the company says is ready for operators to put into service today.
"We can walk in and set up a trial today," said Anthony Landamia, SeaChange senior manager of product management for interactive applications. "There's no smoke and mirrors."
The network-..... TNT Dunks Its Largest NBA Opening Night Ever Averages 3.7 Million Watchers, Best In 26 Years; Top Doubleheader Since 1996 Multichannel News
TNT tipped off the NBA season with its most-watched opening night in its 26 seasons.The Oct. 27 doubleheader featuring the Boston Celtics-Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers-Los Angeles Clippers averaged a 2.3 U.S. rating, 2.7 cable rating and 3.7 million watchers, according to Nielsen data. The telecasts marked the network's top doubleheader since Feb. 2, 1996, with t..... TNT Begins With Its Largest NBA Opening Night Ever Averages 3.7 million watchers, best in 26 years; top doubleheader since 1996 Broadcasting & Cable
TNT tipped off the NBA season with its most-watched opening night in its 26 seasons.
The
Oct. 27 doubleheader featuring the Boston Celtics-Cleveland Cavaliers
and the Los Angeles Lakers-Los Angeles Clippers averaged a 2.3 U.S.
rating, 2.7 cable rating and 3.7 million watchers, according to Nielsen
data. The telecasts marked the network's top doubleheader since Feb. 2,
..... Wade Hargrove Feted at UNC Annual media law colloquium set up in attorney's honor Broadcasting & Cable
Bigwig communications attorney Wade Hargrove was honored in a surprise ceremony Oct. 28 at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, NC. The North Carolina Association of Broadcasters (NCAB) and the North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association (NCCTA) came together to announce they’d raised over $200,000 to establish an annual media law presentation in Hargrove’s honor. ..... CBS digital chief stepping down; plans new firm Paul Thomasch NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp on Wednesday announced the departure of the head of its digital business, Quincy Smith, who was brought on board by the media compa TNT's Begins With Its Largest NBA Opening Night Ever Averages 3.7 Million Watchers, Best In 26 Years; Top Doubleheader Since 1996 Multichannel News
TNT tipped off the NBA season with its most-watched opening night in its 26 seasons.The Oct. 27 doubleheader featuring the Boston Celtics-Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers-Los Angeles Clippers averaged a 2.3 U.S. rating, 2.7 cable rating and 3.7 million watchers, according to Nielsen data. The telecasts marked the network's top doubleheader since Feb. 2, 1996, with t..... BigBand Doubles Edge QAM Density Vendor Reaches 600,000 Edge QAM Shipments Multichannel News
BigBand Networks is packing more channels into its universal edge QAM platform, with the introduction of the BEQ6200 that can provide 96 QAMs in a 1.5-rack-unit box.
The vendor has shipped more than 600,000 edge QAMs to 60 service providers worldwide.
The BEQ6200, scheduled to be available in the next 90 days, has twice the capacity of BigBand's previous-gen..... FCC Defends 'Fleeting Expletives' Fox Ruling Says regulation still necessary in brief filed in U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Broadcasting & Cable
The FCC says it was correct to conclude that the "vulgar expletives" from Cher and Nicole Richie during a Fox 2002 broadcast of the Billboard Music Awards were a violation of community standards for broadcasting.Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the FCC's decision to "expand broadcast indecency enforcement to fleeting expletives," the commission told the court Wednesda..... Litton To Distribute 'Into The Wild' Distributor switches to Litton from Trifecta Broadcasting & Cable
Litton Entertainment will distribute weekly entertainment/informational (E/I) half-hour
Jack Hanna's
Into the Wild
for the 2010-11 season.
Hanna, well known for appearing on CBS' The Late Show with David Letterman with all sorts of beasts and creatures, launched Into the Wild i..... Brian Williams Cancels 'Leno' Appearance 'Meet the Press' host David Gregory will fill in for 'Nightly News' anchor Broadcasting & Cable
Brian Williams will not be on
The Jay Leno Show
Oct. 28 as previously planned. The
Nightly News
anchor was scheduled to appear via remote from Afghanistan. But since Williams arrived there Oct. 26, violence has escalated.
On Monday, separate helicopter crashes in Afghanistan killed 14 Ame..... Testin out a dropdown Broadcasting & Cable
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Parents Television Council Wants More Hearings On TV Violence Group Maintains There Has Been An Increase In Violent Storylines Against Women On Broadcast Multichannel News
The Parents Television Council wants more Hill hearings on TV violence in the wake of what it says is a troubling increase in storylines involving violence toward women.
The group was not so much pointing fingers at anyone, though it did some of that, as it was calling on broadcast networks in general -- it said it does not have the resources to monitor cable, too -- to be ..... Beliefnet's Waldman To Advise FCC On Preserving Media Joining the commission as a senior advisor to the chairman and a member of the Office of Strategic Planning Broadcasting & Cable
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has tapped Beliefnet.com president and co-founder Steven Waldman to head a commission assessment of the state of the media and recommendations for preserving it in a time of technological upheaval. That effort follows the release of the Knight Commission report which called for "new thinking" to preserve Democratic information exchange, and a Colum..... NAMIC 2009: Industry Needs To Find Consensus On Multiplatform Delivery Quickly: Panelists Multichannel News
While an industry consensus on the "TV Everywhere" model has yet to be reached, panelists speaking on the subject at the NAMIC Conference general session here Wednesday say the industry has to find a solution quickly as consumer demand to access content on multiple platforms continues to grow.
Mark Garner, senior vice president of distribution, marketing and business developmen..... Lindman Tapped For MTV Program Strategy Former SVP and GM of TeenNick will oversee programming business Broadcasting & Cable
Sarah Tomassi Lindman has been named executive VP of program strategy for MTV. Lindman had been senior VP and GM of TeenNick (formerly The N) in the MTV Networks Kids & Family Group. In her new role, she will oversee MTV’s programming business, including managing the networks linear schedule as well as cross-platform distribution. She will also be involved in the develo..... PTC Wants More Hearings on TV Violence PTC President Tim Winter believes industry solution, rather than regulatory solution is preferable Broadcasting & Cable
The Parents Television Council wants more Hill hearings on TV violence in the wake of what it says is a troubling increase in storylines involving violence toward women. The group was not so much pointing fingers at anyone, though it did some of that, as it was calling on broadcast networks in general--it said it does not have the resources to monitor cable as well--to be more se..... B&C Mourns the Loss of Brent Felgner Veteran business journalist was 57 years old Broadcasting & Cable
Veteran business journalist and Broadcasting & Cable
contributing editor Brent Felgner passed away from cancer on Oct. 26 at his
father's home in Florida, where he and his wife had relocated earlier this year. Felgner was 57 years
old.
"Our entire team at Broadcasting & Cable
mourns the loss of our dear friend," said B&C Editor-in-Chief..... Remembering Brent Felgner Share your memories of our friend and colleague Broadcasting & Cable
Veteran business journalist and Broadcasting & Cable contributing editor Brent Felgner passed away from cancer on Oct. 26 at his father's home in Florida, to which he and ..... Primetime Ratings: 'Loser' A Ratings Winner For NBC 'NCIS' repeat, 'Great Pumpkin' also score Broadcasting & Cable
NBC's "The Biggest Loser" continues to impress, racking up the top demo score on Tuesday and lifting the network to victory among young adults. A repeat of CBS' "NCIS" was the No. 2 program in demos while drawing the night's most viewers overall.
According to preliminary nationals from Nielsen, "The Biggest Loser" averaged a 3.7 rating/10 share in adults 18-4.....
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