A falcon nesting in San Jose’s City Hall has been named for Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert, the Associated Press reports. Colbert has already had a bald eagle and elephant seal named for him, the wire service says. —Jon Lafayette
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Jonathan Adelstein, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, criticized former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin for the regulator’s taking more than 200 days to approve Time Warner Cable’s spinoff from Time Warner Inc., Broadcasting & Cable reports, citing a C-SPAN interview….
Comcast division thePlatform, which manages the U.S. cable leader’s online-video operations, will run the infrastructure behind the efforts by cable companies to put television programs on the Internet, Multichannel News reports. ThePlatform already provides services for Time Warner Cable, Cablevision…
Channeling Larry King once again… CNBC’s Rick Santelli Rick Santelli, the CNBC blowhard who moronically lashed out at President Obama’s mortgage rescue plan last week in a much-publicized rant, certainly had every right to speak his mind as he did….
Cox Communications Vice President of Engineering Sterling Davis and Sellmeyer Engineering’s Jack Sellmeyer will be awarded for their achievements in engineering by the National Association of Broadcasters this year, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Davis has worked in television engineering for…
ABC Family won’t bring back the science fiction-comedy “The Middleman” for a second season, the New York Post reports. The show will be released on DVD this year while the planned season finale, which was never shot, will be presented…
Sci Fi Channel is looking to order a series based on the Wizard of Oz-inspired miniseries “Tin Man,” Web site io9 reports. The show set network audience records when it aired last year, the Web site says. —Danny King
ESPN, Inc. and the Sun Belt Conference are renewing a multiyear rights deal for football, men’s and women’s basketball and Olympics sports, Multichannel News reports. That will increase the number of Sun Belt telecasts beginning in the 2009-2010 school year….
Barack Obama’s inauguration speech generated some record setting Web-video streaming traffic for CNN and its partner Facebook, but will the public be quite as interested in the new president’s State of the Union like address to Congress? The world gets…