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A new cable TV industry vow to provide many subscribers with technology to block offensive programming doesn’t go far enough because it still requires consumers to subsidize fare they don’t want.At least that was the reaction last week from Sen….
For the fourth season of “Queer as Folk,” Showtime is launching its largest marketing campaign ever for a program in a non-premiere season. The multimillion-dollar advertising effort for the network’s influential gay-themed drama includes preview screenings in six U.S. cities…
Comcast Corp.’s G4 brand will dominate the merged cable network created by the purchase of TechTV, which was finalized last week, sources said. “It’s safe to say [the new network] will be called G4,” said Allan Singer, senior VP of…
Due to a bizarre legislative twist, the Federal Communications Commission may be powerless to prevent broadcasters from buying enough TV stations to reach as many as 78 percent of the nation’s TV homes, Tribune Broadcasting and TV network representatives have…
As ordered by a three-member arbitration panel, cable operator Cablevision Systems must carry the YES Network as part of its most popular pricing packages, a move that Cablevision said will hike the monthly price of its expanded basic cable service…
President Bush and his White House “photo album” got bigger laughs than did comedian A.J. Jamal, who headlined last week’s Radio & Television Correspondents Association dinner. But Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth set more heads aswivel than any of the political, journalistic or…
Best known for his work in feature films such as “Ghost” and “The Last Samurai,” Tony Goldwyn gives TV viewers a double dose of his talents this month. April 1 he guest stars on CBS’s “Without a Trace,” playing twins…
Having a meet-and-greet between your news team and the public can have a lasting effect when you’re a TV station in Delmarva, a 10-county designated market area reaching just under 500,000 people in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. At least that…
President Bush hadn’t even left the head table in the packed ballroom of the Washington Hilton last Wednesday night when Donald Trump split from the News Corp. table at which he was a very special guest. Mr. Trump was bound…
While many programmers grapple with how new technologies such as video-on-demand will affect their business, World Wrestling Entertainment is climbing into the ring with a new subscription VOD service.This move to VOD, and to be part of subscription VOD in…