Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, says that Web video can be a friend of the cable industry. Taking part in the opening session at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show in Washington, D.C….
Keynote Remarks of Kyle McSlarrow, NCTA President & CEO, at The 2009 Cable Show Good afternoon. We are in Washington, D.C., this year, in part, because we knew that with a new President and a new Congress, it would be…
Univision and Time Warner Cable have signed a multiyear retransmission-consent deal for Univision’s broadcast and cable offerings. Broadcast networks Univision and TeleFutura, as well as cable offering Galavision, are covered by the retransmission deal, the companies announced. Along with the…
Outdoor Channel HD has expanded its reach. The network has been added to select Comcast, Time Warner Cable, RCN Corp. and U.S. Cable of Coastal Texas markets. The HD network already has made its debut in several markets, including Comcast…
Universal Cable Prods. has appointed Nikki Reed vice president of current and development, overseeing scripted programming for non-NBC Universal Cable Prods., the Hollywood Reporter says. Reed was VP of development for director Jon Turteltaub and executive produced the 2005 feature…
Disney is continuing its overseas expansion through several agreements for Disney, ABC and ESPN at the Mip TV programming market in Cannes, Daily Variety reports. The agreements are with South Africa’s M-Net and Finnish broadcast network Nelonen Media, the trade…
Discovery Communications has locked in a program block on German free-to-air channel Kabel 1, owned by ProSiebenSat.1, Daily Variety reports. The weekly branded block, called K1 Discovery, will run through 2009 with 50 hours of programming, the trade paper says….
IFC has ordered its first telefilm, a vampire story based on Laurell K. Hamilton’s “Anita Blake” series, Daily Variety reports. The project is produced by Lionsgate and After Dark Films, and Glen Morgan (“The X-Files”) wrote the screenplay and will…
A&E Television Networks is continuing its licensing agreements for “Criss Angel Mindfreak,” making a three-season deal with Sony’s Asia-Pacific cable/satellite channel AXN Beyond, Daily Variety says. In other licensing news, the History Channel sold “Ice Road Truckers” to several international…
The Style Network will present the U.S. premiere of the Canadian series “Outlaw In-Laws” on April 7. Two episodes of the show, which attempts to broker peace between spouses and their in-laws with the help of advice columnist Ellie Tesher,…