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NBCU to Offer Programming Through New Mobile-TV Service

NBC Universal inked a deal to supply news and entertainment programming to mobile-television service MediaFLO, which is slated to launch later this quarter.Under the deal, MediaFlo will carry live the full-length versions of news shows such as “Today,” “Nightly News…

Verizon Plans Interactive Video Guide

Verizon plans to roll out a new interactive programming guide that lets video customers access content from the TV, Internet and their personal music and photo collections. Verizon demonstrated the service at the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday in Las…

Katz: New Sources Best for Syndie

As stations plan for another season in which they have to face changing business models and an apparent dearth of new offerings from syndicators, Katz Television Group focused its programming recommendations for the 2007-08 season on the most innovative options…

Less Than 20 Questions …

… some of which are rhetorical, some of which have no answer and some of which would be no fun if we went in search of an answer. If Oprah Winfrey-gawd bless her beneficent bent-had asked your advice about what…

Microsoft Girds for Vista Debut

Convergence System for PC, TV Signs Content Partners

Next From Apple: Video Cellphone?

Jobs Expected to Unveil Details at This Week’s MacWorld

NBC Stations: Daytime a New Deal

`iVillage’ Renewed in Move to Balance Risks With Costs

Participating Critics

Marc Allan, Nuvo Newsweekly; Michael Ausiello, TV Guide and TV Guide.com; Chuck Barney, Contra Costa (Calif.) Times; Robert Bianco, USA Today; Hal Boedeker, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel; Larry Bonko, The Virginian-Pilot; Bill Brioux, Toronto Sun; Roger Catlin, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant;…

News Briefs: MediaCom Poised to Drop 22 Sinclair Stations

A potentially precedent-setting battle between MediaCom Communications and Sinclair Broadcast Group over broadcast TV retransmission rights payments escalated Friday when MediaCom said it would drop 22 Sinclair stations from its cable systems in 12 states at midnight that night. MediaCom…

Special Report Consumer Electronic Show: Content Joins Tech Centerstage at CES

Big Presence of CBS, Disney a Sign of Event’s Growing Value to TV Industry