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Hit streaming service Spotify eyes U.S. music fans Antony Bruno DENVER (Billboard) - MTV Urge ... Yahoo Music Unlimited ... Virgin Digital ... Since 2003 -- when iTunes launched in the United States -- all of these digital mus We Are Sinners, All of Us Broadcasting & Cable Last week, I barely escaped a massive snowstorm in Denver, only to arrive in a torrential windstorm in Los Angeles. Given that the wrath of a higher power was seemingly after me, maybe it should not have been a surprise that on the flight out of the Rockies, I was actually called an “infidel” to my face. While in Denver on Tuesday for the CTAM conference, hearing constant ..... Trifecta Goes For Trifecta Syndicator selling trio of first-run series for fall 2010 Broadcasting & Cable While several syndicators are turning to low-cost off-cable fare to fill stations' programming needs, Trifecta Entertainment, which has been selling predominantly off-cable shows since the company launched three years ago, is making the leap into original programming. For fall 2010, Trifecta plans to offer stations two new first-run strips, Judge Heck and Tooned In, as we..... Buying Into Big Media's Recovery Whether or not Wall Street's green shoots are real, optimism begins to creep in Broadcasting & Cable Coming off a week in which positive GDP reports and other indicators gave rise to more economic optimism, it's now big media's turn to weigh in. Last week, a handful of TV station group owners reported continued third-quarter revenue declines, including Meredith (down 13%), LIN TV (down 18%) and McGraw-Hill (down 24%). But expectations are more positive for this week, when..... Battle Ready Ohio a key state come election season Broadcasting & Cable It's been a rough patch for Cincinnati, but the general managers in market No. 33 say the skies are brightening. Cincinnati had an eventful analog TV turnoff in June, owing primarily to its topographical challenges. After a few weeks of heavy call volume, the viewer queries have slowed to a trickle. The television business is down around 25% for the year, but the revenue pictur..... Jay Talks Back In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview, Jay Leno addresses the maelstrom of bad press, former rival David Letterman's situation and his feelings about leaving—and even returning to—11:35. Broadcasting & Cable Seated on a couch in his Burbank studio's green room and wearing his familiar off-stage denim uniform, Jay Leno says he's happy to answer anything I want to ask. That's probably a good idea, as his relationship with the press in recent weeks has been a one-way stream of negative stories aboutJay Leno the show, his ratings and local news ratings. Tha..... KUAC Makes Unusual Digital Switch Alaska station goes from UHF to VHF Broadcasting & Cable After full-power broadcasters ceased analog operations on June 12 and settled into their final digital TV (DTV) assignments, one of the early findings was that stations with VHF channel assignments were experiencing far more reception problems than their UHF counterparts. Reception issues were particularly prevalent in Eastern cities like Philadelphia and New York, where the number ..... Despite Sweeping Changes, Sweeps Persist Stations' quarterly report cards still pack major punch Broadcasting & Cable There are some who insist the concept of sweeps is a thing of the past. WPRI/WNAC Providence President/General Manager Jay Howell is certainly not among them. On the opening night of the November ratings period, LIN's CBS affiliate WPRI unveiled the culmination of a major investigative report revealing a state government's fraud unit that the station's I-team says is ..... Keeping Your Promise Broadcasting & Cable With media clutter at an all-time high, the importance of strong branding has never been more crucial. At last week's CTAM conference in Denver, Paul Lavoie, chairman of Montreal-based advertising agency TAXI, gave a well-received talk on how smart brand management can help networks and distributors break through the clutter and engage their audiences. Following is an excerpt from that t..... Promoting Global Health Multichannel NewsCNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who received the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications’s Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award at last week’s NAMIC Conference in Denver, recently spoke with Multichannel News programming editor R. Thomas Umstead about the honor, as well as his analysis of the media’s coverage of major health stories suc..... Stormy Denver Weather's Snow Problem for Events Multichannel News Despite fears of potential bad weather — thoroughly justified, as Denver was hit with about two feet of snow in midweek — Cable Connection Fall events were well attended, at least compared with lowball expectations. CTAM Summit, the cable marketing conference that got a week's worth of events started on Sunday (Oct. 25), ended up with 1,990 attendees, according to com..... Delay in Naming Bid Winners NTIA Will Wait a 'Few More Weeks’ Before Saying Who Gets Broadband Stimulus Funds Multichannel NewsWashington— Announcement of the winning bidders in the broadband-stimulus grant and loan program will be delayed by a month or so, according to heads of the relevant government agencies, with the first funding round pushed from year-end to February 2010. That should be just fine with cable and telco operators, who have registered complaints about their ability to determ..... Pace Picks Up Multiroom DVR Customers Multichannel NewsDenver— Set-top box manufacturer Pace has several takers for its new multiroom DVR solution, which the vendor touts as able to deliver up to nine HD streams at a time within a household. Pace’s Home Content Sharing system, on display last week at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo ’09, is built around a single, network-attached storage device. The DC900x, about the size ..... EBIF Landscape, Revisited Multichannel News In the blur of last week’s mashup of cable events, the lingo landscape bulged with EBIF, pronounced “ee-biff.” EBIF refresher: Five or so years ago, U.S. cable got wiggy about a U.K. interactive-TV staple that allowed viewers to participate with programs by “pressing red” whenever a “red button” appeared on the screen. Work commenced a..... Motorola Shows Slimmer HD Set-Tops at SCTE Multichannel NewsDenver— Motorola showed off an all-digital, non-DVR high-definition cable set-top box designed to be less expensive for operators to deploy en masse by eliminating the analog tuner at SCTE’s Cable-Tec Expo ’09 last week, among other wares. “Our service-provider customers are feeling the pressure on capex,” said Buddy Snow, senior director of soluti..... Cold News Multichannel News In Denver's downtown convention center last week, just before the first snowflakes started to fall, I was hit with the coldest news I'd gotten in years. “Brent died last night,” a colleague whispered to me as the din of voices at break filled the hall. My ears rung. I couldn't believe it. Brent Felgner was a part-time copy editor for the magazine who..... Comcast Combats BitTorrent Call Multichannel NewsWashington— Comcast characterized the Federal Communications Commission as a winded fighter on the ropes in its version of the battle over the agency’s BitTorrent decision that found the top U.S. cable operator in violation of the agency’s network-openness principles. The company also suggests that the commission dealt a self-inflicted blow to its own argument..... Burke Warns: TV Shift Is Coming Multichannel NewsDenver— Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke warned at a CTAM Summit '09 panel here Sunday that content providers and cable operators that don’t take heed to the shifting habits of video viewers to online and other alternative forms of viewing content, may wake up without a business in the not too distant future. Opening the Cable & Telecommunication..... Discount on B2B, But Not Too Much Multichannel NewsDenver— Cable business-services marketers here cautioned that promotional offers will get some customers in the door, but cutting prices too deeply can have an unintended effect. “Offers are the hook,” Suddenlink Communications vice president of marketing Beverly Gambell said during a panel session at CTAM Summit ’09. She added that cable companies would..... Seeking Retransmission Help Mediacom Asks FCC to Step In as Battle Brews With Sinclair Over Expiring Pact for Fees Multichannel News Mediacom Communications is back in battle formation against Sinclair Broadcast Group, claiming in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission that the broadcaster — the source of a heated retransmission-consent battle in 2006 — is attempting to gouge the cable company with higher fees. Sinclair executive vice president and general counsel Barry Faber said that he.....
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