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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin celebrated the regulator’s likely decision to support his plan to punish cable giant Comcast for interfering with some customers’ file-sharing software, the New York Times reports. Such sanctions will be “increasingly applied” to overly…
IAC/InterActiveCorp’s HSN shopping cable network’s second-quarter revenue rose 2%, though the unit took a $272 million operating loss, Reuters says. IAC, which next month will spin off the former Home Shopping Network into its own public company, had a smaller…
The Screen Actors Guild’s so-called Majority First faction, which has a majority on the union’s voting board, said its candidates for an upcoming election include Keith Carradine, Joely Fisher and Scott Bakula, the Los Angeles Times reports. That group has…
Japan’s ministry of communications will spend about $2 billion facilitating the switchover to digital broadcasts from analog, which will take place in 2011, Daily Variety reports. More than half of Japanese households are unable to receive digital broadcasts, the newspaper…
Shawnee Smith, who appeared in Lionsgate’s “Saw” films, will be one of the judges on VH1’s new reality show “Scream Queen,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Joining Ms. Smith are director-producer James Gunn, who’s worked on “Dawn of the Dead,” and…
About three out of four consumers are willing to watch online advertisements in exchange for free video content, Advertising Week says, citing a survey from Ipsos MediaCT’s Motion unit. Only about half of the consumers are willing to sit through…
Mars pulled a Snickers television ad in the U.K. featuring Mr. T because of complaints that the spot was homophobic, Advertising Week reports. The spot featured Mr. T blasting a speed-walker with a Snickers gun and telling him to “get…
Time Warner Cable profits will fall after Univision switches from being a free channel to a fee-based network because of the cable operator’s large Latino customer base, Broadcasting & Cable says, citing Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield. Latino programming is…
Belo, which owns 20 television stations, said second-quarter revenue fell 4.7% largely on a drop in automotive-related advertising, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Third-quarter advertising revenue is likely to improve thanks to advertising related to the Summer Olympics because Belo owns…