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Cablevision Launches HD Satellite Service Cablevision Systems on Wednesday officially rolled out its national high-definition satellite service Voom, in a bet that the cable operator can tap into a burgeoning segment of the television-viewing community that is expected to own…
DirecTV Announces Quarterly Results DirecTV executives said Tuesday they are confident that by the end of the year they will obtain regulatory approval for their merger with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., despite what they called a “momentary delay” in the…
In a post-9/11 world, you’d think an all-global-news channel’s time had finally come. You’d be wrong. Of the niche ideas still seeking a sizable cable footprint, global news is way down there with The Puppy Channel and Black Women’s Television….
Tom Kane is out as general manager of WABC-TV in New York in an abrupt turn of events that caught the largest market in the country off-guard. A spokesperson for ABC, for which Mr. Kane worked for some 30 years,…
The baseball playoffs and World Series, especially now that they appear to be attracting a large audience, present a powerful opportunity for the Fox network to promote its shows. The programs that will most benefit are the new drama “Skin,”…
The Insider wants to know the name of The Museum of Moving Images’ psychic! How else to explain the prescient choice of NBC Chairman Bob Wright and Cox Communications President Jim Robbins as honorees at its annual fall gala. The…
Posted Monday, Sept. 23 NBC, HBO dominate Emmys NBC and HBO each brought home 24 Emmy statuettes at the 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards last night. NBC’s”Friends” got its first win as outstanding comedy series, while NBC’s “The West Wing”…
NDS to protect MediaHawk contentConcurrent has aligned with NDS to integrate NDS’s VideoGuard content protection into Concurrent’s MediaHawk video server. The partnership will enhance the security of VOD services by protecting the content as it is delivered, the companies said.15…
Pepsi-Cola Co. is negotiating a deal for what could be one of the highest-profile promotions in marketing history: an unprecedented $35 million program that would award a winner a ride on the Russian Soyuz space shuttle.Should it reach agreement on…
CONUS kills news armNew York-Citing years of unprofitability and fundamental changes in the local TV business, CONUS Communications, the last remaining independent TV news service, said it is shutting down most of its news-gathering and production operations and scaling back…