Cable operators are aggressively targeting the retail customers for the first time, boldly stepping onto ground that has been owned by their satellite competitors for nearly a decade. Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and leading high-definition programmers such as Discovery…
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“Since Osama Bin Laden isn’t actually within our borders, as far as we know, the person with the biggest image challenge in America may be [former AOL Time Warner Chairman] Steve Case.” So wrote Michael Kinsley in Slate earlier this…
If we can put a man on the moon, then why can’t we-put a man on the moon again? Which is apparently going to be a national goal, more than 30 years after we did it the first time. Of…
As comforting as it might be to finally have some certainty about where the television station ownership cap is headed, both the ownership “compromise” and the way it came about are troubling.Barring a surprise in Congress-something that can’t be counted…
Ask five different cable networks, you’ll hear five different definitions of the term “limited series.” But ask five cable networks if they have one in development, and most will likely say yes. USA, TNT, FX, HBO, Sci Fi and others…
“My favorite new show this year was on A&E, a British import called `MI-5.’ Brilliant thriller. Felt like I was watching a great spy novel. And I can’t wait for the return of `Curb Your Enthusiasm,’ the best comedy on…
Two “60 Minutes” stories, a “60 Minutes II” story and an installment in the public broadcasting series “Frontline” won the first four Business and Financial Reporting Emmys handed out by the National Television Academy at a luncheon last Thursday in…
Rupert Murdoch did not attend the final Western Show last week, but he was clearly on the minds of most attendees. The pending acquisition of DirecTV, the largest satellite program service, by his company, News Corp., cast a long shadow…
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