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Cablevisions Systems said Tuesday that it swung to a profit in the second quarter as its strategy of offering customers a triple-play package of video, data and voice services continued to help the company rack up gains during the period.Bethpage,…
Crown Media Holdings, the parent company of Hallmark Channel, swung to a wider second-quarter loss Tuesday, even as subscriber and affiliate-fee growth led to a surge in revenue.The Greenwood Village, Colo.-based company reported a loss of $56.3 million, compared with…
The debuts of E!’s newest reality efforts, “The Girls Next Door” and “Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive,” both delivered over a 1.0 household rating for the network and increased their time period averages. “The Girls Next Door ” scored a 1.06…
A week after its debut finale of Fox summer reality series “Hell’s Kitchen,” the network announced Monday it is ordering a second season. “Kitchen” features master chef Gordon Ramsay and a group of culinary wannabes who compete for a chance…
Gray Television, the Atlanta-based station group that owns 31 television stations, reported Monday a 72 percent drop in second-quarter profit, as the company suffered from the absence of political advertising in the period.Revenue slipped 3 percent to $81.5 million, as…
National Geographic Channel will launch a high-definition spinoff network, the channel and Fox Networks Group announced today. The net, currently dubbed NGC HD, will roll out in early 2006 to coincide with National Geographic Channel’s 5th anniversary. “Our many cable…
In a deal that marries interactive tools to video-on-demand content, interactive TV firm GoldPocket has partnered with VOD server maker Concurrent to allow two-way interactivity within VOD programs.Through the deal, Concurrent will be able to offer its cable operator customers…
Young Broadcasting fell deeper into the red Monday, reporting a second-quarter loss of $36.1 million, compared with red ink of $9.6 million a year ago, hurt by a sharp decline in political revenue and continued weakness at its San Francisco-based…
President Bush joined the long list of those paying tribute Monday morning to “ABC World News Tonight’s” elegant, urbane and measured anchor Peter Jennings, who died Sunday at home 4½ months after disclosing he had been diagnosed with lung cancer….
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