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U.S. Senator Says America Would Be Better Off WIthout Fox News and MSNBC, and the FCC Should Take Action

At least one senator likes neither Fox News nor MSNBC, and wishes they’d both go away, reports Brian Stelter of The New York TImes. It’s Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat representing West Virginia. According to the article, here’s exactly what Sen….

Comcast, Government Talks Heat Up Over NBCU Acquisition; Hot Buttons are Net Neutrality, Program Access and Program Carriage

With Comcast pushing to have its take-over of NBC Universal finalized by year’s end, talks have intensified between Comcast and U.S. regulators, Reuters reports. The biggest issues concern net neutrality, program acquisition and program carriage, the article says. Says the…

Oh, the Advantages of 500 Million Users: Facebook Knows When Your Relationship With Your Significant Other Will Breakup

Facebook knows when you’ll be dumped, CNN reports. According to the story, a British journalist studied "10,000 Facebook status updates for the phrases ‘breakup’ and ‘broken up.’They found two big spikes on the calendar for breakups. The first was after…

Fox Settles Retrans Dispute With Dish After a Month; Now More Pressure on Fox and Cablevision to Settle Their Dispute

"Roughly two days before its retransmission consent agreement for more than two dozen Fox Networks owned and operated stations were set to expire, Dish Network has reached a carriage deal that not only avoids a blackout of the broadcast networks,…

If the Mantra for Retailers is ‘Location, Location, Location,’ the Mantra for TV Programmers and Consumer Distributors Alike is ‘Marketing, Marketing, Marketing.’ Here’s the Best of Cable Marketing

The best of cable marketing–both on the programming and distributing sides of the business–is honored every year by CTAM’s Mark Awards, helped along by their traditional media trade partner, our friends at Multichannel News. Given the importance of marketing in these…

Cablevision Rebuked for Asking FCC to Mediate in Dispute With Fox

Cablevision Systems President and CEO James L. Dolan was rebuked by the FCC on Tuesday for trying to get the government to intervene in its dispute with News Corp., which is threatening to prevent 3 million homes from seeing the…

FCC Gives Fox, Cablevision a Short Deadline to Justify Their Positions in Negotiations

The FCC has given both Cablevision and Fox a short deadline to explain how their positions in the ongoing dispute over retransmission fees comply with the law that requires them to negotiate "in good faith,” B&C reports. The commission wants…

Fox Ratings Hurt in New York by Cablevision Blackout; No Imminent Deal Between Fox and Cablevision Seen

Fox’s ratings for this week’s "House" in New York plunged amid the network’s blackout for Cablevision viewers in that city and Philadelphia, reports MediaDailyNews. "House" had a 0.8 rating among 18- to 49-year-olds, down 67% from the week before the…

Intervention in Retrans Impasse Gains Traction in D.C.; Kerry Has Bill Ready

Federal legislators have been expressing frustration at the continuing retransmission dispute between Cablevision and Fox, and that frustration is quickly developing into action, according to Radio Business Report. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., reportedly has readied a draft of legislation to…

Cablevision-Fox Dispute Draws Politicians, Who Want Arbitration in Carriage Dispute

The carriage dispute between Fox and Cablevision systems has sparked two New York Congressmen to get involved, calling on the companies to enter arbitration, reports the Hollywood Reporter. Neither Fox nor Cablevision immediately responded, the story says. The dispute is…