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By BroadCasting & Cable Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/20/2008 8:00:00 PM

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Cable Ratings: Unseasonably Hot
Charge of the Light Brigade
Dems Fret about TV Coupon Funding

Cable Ratings: Unseasonably Hot

If the numbers on recent premieres—from The Closer to Project Runway to Saving Grace—are any indication, cable will be generating serious ratings heat this summer.

Charge of the Light Brigade

These days, the entire cable industry is sweating Verizon's FiOS, which may yet prove to be cable's most lethal enemy. But does an all-fiber network really give the telco a leg up?

Dems Fret about TV Coupon Funding

Two congressmen are concerned that the Bush administration has mismanaged funds for the $1.5 billion program to subsidize digital-to-analog converter boxes.

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