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Draft House Bill Wouldn’t Force Multicast Carriage
Draft legislation circulated Friday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee would require cable TV operators to carry both the analog and digital TV signals of broadcasters for five years after the DTV transition. But the House bill, according to…
Murdoch Defends Poison Pill Strategy
News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch said Friday that he and the News Corp. board had shareholders in mind when they extended by two years the company’s poison pill provision, saying the move was designed to prevent someone from…
Nickelodeon Joins Clinton Foundation to Fight Obesity
Nickelodeon is teaming up with The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a joint initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association, on a campaign against childhood obesity, the network announced Thursday.Nickelodeon will use its multimedia platforms…
EchoStar Drops Outdoor Life from Dish Network Package
EchoStar Communications on Thursday said it dropped Outdoor Life Network from its Dish Network programming package, charging that the Comcast-owned network was demanding higher payments because it had added National Hockey League games to its lineup. “We work hard to…
Senate Panel OKs Watered-Down VNR Labeling
The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation Thursday afternoon that would require federal agencies to clearly label their sponsorship of pre-packaged news stories. But the actual language of the approved measure was so tame that industry officials who have resisted the…
Carriage Pact Ends Cox Stalemate With Station Groups
Cox Communications on Thursday reached an agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting and Mission Broadcasting in which it will pay the two station groups a retransmission fee to carry the broadcasters’ signals on Cox’s cable systems.The agreement ends a nearly year-long stalemate…
ABC Orders More ‘Chief,’ ‘Invasion’; NBC Cuts ‘Daniel’ Order
ABC has picked up dramas “Commander in Chief” and “Invasion” for the full season, while NBC is cutting back on its order for the midseason drama “The Book of Daniel” to the pilot plus seven episodes, down from its original…