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Fourteen House Republicans are urging President-elect Barack Obama to reverse course on delaying the digital TV changeover, warning that a delay would be “a monumental error in judgment.” “No one said that this was going to be easy, but we…
President-elect Barack Obama believes that the speed of internet broadband service needs to be increased nationally, but a broadband stimulus package that will be part of his economic recovery package is more narrowly tailored, a member of the Obama transition…
Attention mobile video entrepreneurs: One of the top executives at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers is eager to find a mobile video company that offers “truly mobile video,” and he hasn’t seen it yet. “We need…
Viacom and Time Warner Cable have reached an agreement in principle that ends the threat of Viacom channels, including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, being pulled from the cable operator’s systems. The agreement was reached just after midnight Eastern Time,…
Auto advertising is expected to decrease a 13th consecutive quarter when third-quarter results are announced in December, the Hollywood Reporter says. The auto industry accounts for about 12.5% of all U.S. ad spending. The continuous drops in spending will have…
CBS Sports has signed a multiyear deal with the Atlantic 10 to broadcast the men’s basketball tournament beginning in 2010, the Hollywood Reporter says. CBS already carries several men’s basketball tournaments, including the Big Ten, Pacific 10, Conference USA, and…
Showtime’s drama pilot “Possible Side Effects” has added Jason Butler Harner to the cast, the Hollywood Reporter says. The Tim Robbins project focuses on a family that runs a pharmaceutical firm. Fox’s comedy pilot “Boldly Going Nowhere” has also added…
The Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a decision overturning the FCC’s fining of 20 CBS stations in the Janet Jackson Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction.” In court…