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Jonathan Adelstein, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, praised both cable companies and broadcasters for their efforts toward easing the transition to all-digital broadcasts, Multichannel News reports, citing an interview on C-SPAN. Broadcasters “care about their viewers” and “understand their…
Comcast said demand for the Web-advertising cooperative Canoe Ventures, which includes smaller cable companies Time Warner Cable and Cablevision, has stayed strong in spite of the economic downturn, Advertising Week reports. While Canoe’s earnings contribution to its investors won’t be…
Comcast division thePlatform, which manages the U.S. cable leader’s online-video operations, will run the infrastructure behind the efforts by cable companies to put television programs on the Internet, Multichannel News reports. ThePlatform already provides services for Time Warner Cable, Cablevision…
After three days of talks with the Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood’s producers have issued a “last, best and final offer” to actors that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says contains significant concessions. “The AMPTP made these enhancements…
At least 150 members of the Writers Guild of America, West, picketed Fox’s “American Idol” on Wednesday, marching and chanting in front of CBS Television’s offices to protest reality and game-show working conditions, the Hollywood Reporter says. Their chants included…
Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Cliff Stearns, R.-Fla., ranking members of the House Energy & Commerce and Communications, Tech and Internet Subcommittee, have asked the FCC and NTIA to put analog-only homes at the top of the waiting list for…
The FCC and a representative of the House Energy & Commerce Committee denied that staffers of the FCC and House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., met last week about reviving the Fairness Doctrine, Broadcasting & Cable reports….
Denny’s Super Bowl commercial, which promoted a free breakfast, gave the restaurant chain “a very encouraging lift in guest traffic,” CEO Nelson Marchioli told investors, MediaPost reports. Yet the full benefit remains to be seen in whether those customers become…