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03/10/10
Broadcasters have countered the cable and satellite operators' letter to House and Senate Commerce Committees with one of their own.
While Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and others asked Congress to review what they called a broken retransmission-consent system, National Association of Broadcasters chairman Paul Karpowicz said in a letter that Congress and the Federal .....
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03/10/10
Broadcasters have countered the cable and satellite operators' letter to House and Senate Commerce Committees with one of their own.While Time Warner, Cablevision and others asked Congress to review what they called a broken retransmission consent system, National Association of Broadcasters Chairman Paul Karpowicz said in a letter that Congress and the FCC have already reviewed .....
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03/09/10
CBS Corp. CEO
Les Moonves said March 9 that he wouldn't hesitate to yank the network signal
from an affiliate if it didn't play ball on sharing retransmission consent
fee revenue.??
Speaking Tuesday
at the Credit Suisse Global Media & Communications Convergence Conference
in Palm Beach, Fla.,
Moonves said CBS did just that in Jacksonville,
Fla., four or five years ago.....
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03/09/10
Dish Network has launched a limited trial of Internet-connected set-tops that run Google search and ad-targeting software, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The satellite operator's Google-based set-tops provide an integrated search function that lets viewers find TV programs as well as online video from sites including like Google's YouTube, as well as a w.....
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03/05/10
Dish Network is adding subscribers and reveling in a price war against satellite-TV archrival DirecTV, but the discounts it is using to get new customers could make them hard to hang onto. Dish reported 249,000 net new subscribers in the fourth quarter, its third consecutive period of gains after a decline of 92,000 customers in the first quarter. Dish, the second-largest U.S. satel.....
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03/10/10
NEW YORK (Reuters) - While James Cameron's 3D sci-fi epic "Avatar" took the box office by storm instantly, the road to success will be much longer for Best B
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03/10/10
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told shareholders Wednesday, March 10, that one option for the future of ABC network could be a spin-off. Iger signaled a wholesale review of corporate assets at the meeting in Florida, saying: "There are no guarantees in terms of what will remain part of our company and what will not," according to a Reuters report. A spokeswoman for the company was not immed.....
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03/10/10
Turns out the cable operator petition for rulemaking submitted to the FCC Tuesday evening is asking for three major changes, not two, with the third being the untying of retransmission consent negotiations from other programming services like co-owned cable channels and even Internet content.Retrans started out primarily as a venue for getting carriage of cable channels by bundling th.....
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03/10/10
Planet Green will launch its new Verge programming block March 29, headlined by the premiere of several new shows and specials.
The seven-day, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Verge-branded programming block will showcase original Planet Green series featuring personalities and innovators advocating an eco-friendly lifestyle and conscious living, according to network officials.
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03/10/10
The madness is about to begin online.
CBSSports.com will once again provide free Web access for all 63 games of the 2010 NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship, tipping off March 18 and culminating with the title tilt on April 5, through its March Madness On Demand platform.
Speaking March 9 at CBS's annual media day in support of the tourney Jas.....
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03/10/10
Jim Tellus, president and general manager of WTHR Indianapolis,
died March 8 of an apparent heart attack while attending a business meeting in Ohio. He was 47.
"WTHR is deeply saddened to announce that Jim Tellus, our
President and General Manager since January of 2008, has died," said a
statement from the Dispatch Broadcast Group-owned NBC affiliate. "He was a
gentle, kind and com.....
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you up to date on the latest breaking news about products, technologies,
companies, events, regulations, people and projects in the Broadcast Industry.
