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Senate leaders announced late Monday that the Senate Budget Committee has postponed until Oct. 26 a vote on a massive budget reconciliation bill, giving lawmakers an additional month to work on digital TV legislation. The DTV bill, which will include…
MTV Networks will launch MHD, a high-definition music channel that will feature content from MTV, VH1 and CMT, in January, the company said Tuesday. MHD “will be a totally immersive experience,” said Van Toffler, MTV Networks Music Group president, “a…
Time Warner has hired Tim Berry, chief of staff to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, to serve as VP for global public policy, sources said. But in a statement, Jeff Chester, executive director of the watchdog Center for Digital…
BBC America has signed a two-year agreement with Granada International for 160 hours of drama programming, the network announced today. The deal includes access to Granada’s new and catalog programming, though titles have yet to be announced.“We have a constant…
IFC has renewed its Henry Rollins series under an expanded format for 2006, the network announced Monday. The monthly review show, “Henry’s Film Corner,” will return as a weekly series called “The Henry Rollins Show” next March. The new series…
More than 90 cable TV networks sent a letter Monday urging federal lawmakers to reject an effort by broadcasters to win legislation requiring operators to carry all of the free programming streams TV stations multicast on their new digital television…
DISH Network has agreed to carry the NFL Network, continuing the channel’s record-setting growth, the companies said Monday. The NFL Network, which was the fastest-growing network in its first season, now has 35 million subscribers in the U.S. and needs…
Speakers at the conference of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications noted that the organization’s most recent study found that fewer African Americans and Asian Americans are in senior management at cable television companies than in the 2002 survey….
Marty Franks, executive VP for CBS Television, has been named executive VP, planning, policy and government relations, for the new CBS Corp. In addition, Gail MacKinnon, Viacom’s VP for government relations, was named senior VP, Washington, for the new CBS…
Federal officials appear to have backed off plans to limit press coverage of the recovery of bodies after CNN won a temporary injunction Friday night against any such move by authorities in charge of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in New…