Dish Network and its set-top company EchoStar filed a lawsuit against TiVo, claiming their new DVR software does not infringe on TiVo’s patents, Multichannel News reports. A jury ruled in April 2006 that Dish’s old DVRs infringed on TiVo’s patents,…
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USA Network will partner with digital production company Big Spaceship to create a multimedia gaming experience online for its new series “In Plain Sight,” Multichannel News reports. Users will be able to log on to a Web site to participate…
Reports of the demise of the Carat Exchange, a forum where the ad industry can trade information about the digital television world, are premature. A day after Mitch Oscar, the executive who ran the exchange, announced in an e-mail that…
Federal Communications Commission staffers will visit Best Buy, Circuit City and RadioShack stories in Wilmington, N.C. on May 31, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The staffers will inform customers of what equipment they need for the test market’s upcoming switch to…
Oxygen’s “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” may feature behind-the-scenes footage of Tori Spelling reprising her role as Donna Martin on The CW’s “90210,” the New York Daily News reports. Spelling points out that there could be overlap between the…
MTV is planning a reality show version of the Oscar-nominated feature film “Juno,” the New York Post reports. “16 and Pregnant” will follow several pregnant teens facing the lows and highs of pregnancy, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
Tribune Broadcasting’s chief technologist Ira Goldstone announced that he is leaving the company after 25 years, TVNewsday reports. Goldstone, who was based at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, said the decision was mutual and that he would re-emerge in another position…
The upfront advertising market is up and running, as ABC struck deals with two major agencies. Starcom USA and Zenith Media paid less than the double-digit rates that the network sought when talks began, according to one source. While the…