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03/16/10
CBS College Sports Network will tip off two out-of-market games of the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship later this week.The "March Madness" lineup features first-round tourney matchups between UTEP and Butler in the West region on Thursday March 18 at 4:45 p.m. (ET) from San Jose Calif. and Utah State against Texas A&M in the South Region from Spokane, Wash......
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03/15/10
Comment from Washington came pouring over the electronic transom Monday as details of the FCC's national broadband plan were revealed.Broadcasters said they would look closely at the plan, though they were pleased with the voluntary nature of any spectrum reclamation proposal, so long as it stayed voluntary, while the main cable trade group also took a wait-and see approach, sayi.....
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03/12/10
This line caught our attention last week: “As we've said many times, as a company that will be in both the cable and broadcasting businesses, looking at the issue from both sides, we hope we can play a constructive role in working toward a resolution of these issues.” That was some hopeful thinking from Comcast in a statement responding to a two-front war on retransmi.....
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03/13/10
Beginning next month, BBC America will telecast via a dual feed, unifying its programming times.Starting on April 26, BBC America will broadcast through a dual feed, enabling it to schedule programming at the same time on both coasts, according to Kristina Song, senior vice president, network sales and distribution strategy.The news comes as BBC America has increased its subscriber base to.....
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03/13/10
It's not exactly a reprise of Wide World of Sports, but ESPN will launch a two-hour block on broadcast brethren ABC, beginning next month.The two-hour window will comprise a new 60-minute, highlight-driven series titled Winners Bracket and a mix of ESPN offerings, including films from the acclaimed 30 for 30 documentary series, installments of the award-winn.....
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03/16/10ACTON, MASS. ' SeaChange
International said Thursday
(March 11) that president and
chief operating officer Ed Dunbar
had left and Yvette Kanouff
was promoted to president.The company also said it laid
off 3% to 4% of its workforce in
a shift toward a software-oriented
product mix and an effort
to cut R&D expenses.The video-on-demand and
advertising vendor announced
the chan.....
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03/16/10
Turner Broadcasting System has deployed over 70 Snell Quasar Ph.C upconverters over the last two years to help convert standard-definition content to high definition for its HD simulcasts. As part of that deployment, which is used to upconvert programming on TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, TCM, TruTV and WPCH, Snell and Turner engineers have also jointly developed a sophisticated algorithm.....
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03/16/10
The beginning of Jonhathan Rhys Meyers reign as Henry VIII is at hand.Showtime will premiere the fourth and final campaign of its historical melodrama The Tudors on April 11 at 9 p.m.Billed as "The Final Seduction", the series' last campaign focuses on Meyers' aging Henry and the last of his two marriages to Catherine Howard (Tamzine Merchant) and Catherine Parr (Joel.....
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03/16/10
FX's new drama series Justified continues the long line of gritty, strong character-driven original drama series that the network has become known for. Based on an Elmore Leonard-penned short story, Justified stars Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood) as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a no-nonsense lawman who takes no prisoners, as witnessed in the first four minutes of t.....
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03/16/10I thought that I'd been
on all sides of the retransmission-
consent issue. I can argue
the broadcasters' needs
and rights. I can argue the distributors'
efforts to keep down
consumer bills. I thought I'd
seen it all, until last Sunday.
I was at Francis E. Parker
Home, a lovely nursing facility
(such as these facilities are)
in Pisca.....
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03/16/10One big reason set-top box data
isn't becoming widely used as a measure
of TV advertising is that cable,
satellite and telco TV operators simply
aren't willing to share that data.Or even talk about it publicly.The Council for Research Excellence,
a group funded by Nielsen, set out in
late 2008 to analyze the state of set-top
data and its viability as a mechanism
for au.....
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Daily
newsletter for Broadcast industry specialists and professionals. Keeps
you up to date on the latest breaking news about products, technologies,
companies, events, regulations, people and projects in the Broadcast Industry.
