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Media researcher SNL Kagan says that multichannel video businesses will only grow at a 2.1% rate annually, Media Daily News reports. However, cable operators will get a boost in the number of households due to the digital television transition in…
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed fraud charges against eight former AOL Time Warner executives, the Wall Street Journal reports. The SEC claims that the executives overstated the company’s online advertising revenue by more than $1 billion, the newspaper says….
CBS plans to announce today that newsman Bob Schieffer has signed a “long-term deal” to stay with the network, the Washington Post reports. The arrangement would keep Schieffer as chief Washington correspondent and host of “Face the Nation,” the newspaper…
WE TV’s “Bridezillas” has launched an online application in which users can imagine themselves as brides, Online Media Daily reports. The campaign uses technology from Oddcast, which was responsible for Elfyourself, and allows users to upload their photo and integrate…
London-based digital entertainment R&D firm Futurescape found that viral marketing of video on the Web doesn’t necessarily result in wider distribution of content, Online Media Daily reports. The company uncovered several “viral fallacies,” including the idea that Web TV is…
“Battlestar Galactica’s” Katee Sackhoff has been cast in a recurring role on FX’s “Nip/Tuck,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Morgan Fairchild will also appear on the drama as a movie star, the newspaper notes. Meanwhile, Polly Walker and Saul Rubinek have…
Verizon Communications will provide advanced set-top boxes for FiOS TV with separable security components in compliance with Federal Communications Commission requirements, Multichannel News reports. Verizon plans to send out the CableCard set-top boxes by July 1, which is the FCC…
Lauren Lee Smith will join the cast of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” as a regular next season, the Hollywood Reporter says. Smith will play a smart, flirtatious and nonconformist CSI hired for the night shift by William Petersen’s character, the…
“Project Runway” is being courted for print partnerships by five magazines — Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar and In Style — Women’s Wear Daily reports, citing unnamed sources. Producers The Weinstein Co. are said be holding out for “the…
NBC released a test version of its television download service NBC Direct, Silicon Alley Insider reports. The software allows users to download free shows from NBC’s site to their computers. The shows expire in seven days and must be viewed…