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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Wednesday, February 27, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

NFL, Comcast Heading to Trial Over NFL Network Tiering
By John Eggerton
The National Football League celebrated a New York State Appeals Court decision that will send the NFL and Comcast to trial over Comcast's decision to put the network on a sports tier. Comcast won a summary judgment in May from a New York State Supreme Court judge that it was within its rights to carry the network on a sports tier rather than the more widely carried basic tier. But the NFL challenged that and filed for its own summary judgment that it should be more widely carried.

DTV Transition Top of Mind for House, Senate
By John Eggerton
Oversight of the digital-TV transition will dominate the broadcast legislative agenda in both the House and Senate, according to key staffers from both houses and both sides of the aisle.

WGA Membership Officially Ratifies AMPTP Deal
By Ben Grossman
The Writers Guild of America membership formally ratified the deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that brought to an end the 100-day strike.

They're Back! Prometheus Asks Court to Vacate Ownership-Rule Change
By John Eggerton
As promised, anti-media consolidation activists asked a federal court to throw out the FCC's recent media-ownership decision.

Feb. 18, 2009, Is Only a Year Away... The DTV Countdown Begins Now
Introducing The DTV Countdown, a new channel on broadcastingcable.com providing complete coverage of the 2009 digital-TV transition.

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MyNetworkTV Wins Cage Match for WWE SmackDown
By Alex Weprin
World Wrestling Entertainment announced that MyNetworkTV will become the broadcast home of WWE SmackDown beginning this fall.

ESPN Makes Multiplatform Push for Masters
By Glen Dickson
ESPN reached a deal with organizers of the Masters Golf Tournament that will allow it to offer expansive online coverage to complement its inaugural on-air coverage of the first two days of the major tournament, which runs April 10-13 from Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.

Free Press Accuses Comcast of Packing FCC Hearing
By John Eggerton
Free Press accused Comcast of packing the FCC hearing on network neutrality at Harvard Monday, while the cable operator said it simply had lots of interested employees in the area and some line-standers to save seats for them.

CBS Q4 Profits Drop on Lower TV Revenue
By B&C Staff
CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves touted the continued importance of broadcast television Tuesday as his company reported a 15% drop in fourth-quarter profit in 2007 on a slight dip in TV revenue.

Dish Network Subscriber Growth Slows in Q4
By Glen Dickson & John Eggerton
Satellite-TV provider Dish Network (EchoStar Communications) reported increased fourth-quarter revenues but showed weakness in subscriber growth, a key financial metric for cable and satellite operators.

Pryor: FCC ‘Fouled Up’ Spectrum Auction
By John Eggerton
Senate Commerce Committee Democrat Mark Pryor (Ark.) told broadcasters Tuesday that House and Senate members from both parties continued to be frustrated by Kevin Martin’s chairmanship of the FCC.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Traffic Systems Seek Scale, Depth, Breadth
By David F. Carr
When LIN Broadcasting moved to consolidate most of its television operations around two regional control rooms in Indianapolis and Springfield, Mass., about four years ago, one piece of technology that made the move possible was a traffic management system that could handle advertisement scheduling for multiple stations.
From the 02/25/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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