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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Thursday, February 28, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82
By P.J. Bednarski
William F. Buckley Jr., the conservative intellectual and former PBS show host whose unusual way of speaking and expansive vocabulary made him the butt of jokes and satirists, but whose mind earned him the envy of political scholars, died Wednesday at 82 at his home in Stamford, Conn.

NBC Revamping Fledgling NBC Direct with Pando Networks Deal
By Alex Weprin
NBC is working with Pando Networks, a peer-to-peer content-delivery-technology company, to revamp its NBC Direct service.

Clinton-Obama Debate Sets MSNBC Ratings Record
By Ben Grossman
If the race between Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was over prior to Tuesday night’s debate, someone forgot to tell MSNBC viewers.

Senate Passes VoIP Enhanced 911 Bill
By John Eggerton
The Senate passed a bill to ensure that voice-over-Internet-protocol phone-service providers like cable companies can deliver 911 service to their customers. It must now be squared with a similar bill already passed in the House before it can be sent to the president for his signature.

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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Akimbo Makes B2B Web Video-on-Demand Play
By Glen Dickson
Internet video firm Akimbo, which initially positioned itself as a content aggregator and even struck a deal with RCA to manufacture a set-top box to deliver content from the Internet to TV sets, is now introducing a turnkey service aimed at content companies that want to deliver video-on-demand through their own Web sites.

TMZ-Branded Channel to Launch on MySpaceTV
By Alex Weprin
TMZ and MySpaceTV signed a content partnership that will see clips from the popular syndicated gossip show on the social-networking site’s video platform.

Scripps Giving Free Airtime to Presidential Candidates
By Alex Weprin
As part of its “Democracy 2008” initiative, the nine E.W. Scripps broadcast stations will make free primetime space available for the eventual 2008 presidential candidates.

Trading Spouses, Nanny 911 Heading to CMT
By Alex Weprin & Anne Becker
Twentieth Television sold cable rights for Fox reality shows Trading Spouses and Nanny 911 to CMT.

IMG, Mike Tollin Team Up on Slamball Redux
By Ben Grossman
IMG and Mike Tollin are teaming up to try to resurrect Slamball -- a sports hybrid that includes trampolines on a basketball court -- and hoping to bring the project back to television.

Primetime Ratings: No Ratings Life for NBC’s quarterlife
By John Eggerton
Maybe dividing the audience with MTV wasn't such a good idea, after all. NBC didn’t get much of an audience for its premiere of quarterlife, a 20-something take from veteran drama creators Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick that started on the Internet.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Paper Now a Station Site
By Michael Malone
Kerry Duke, the managing editor of the local news site KYPost.com, admits he's got ink in his blood. But after the demise of Scripps' venerable Kentucky Post, Duke's had a media transfusion of sorts. He's now running a Post Web site that debuted Jan. 1. The former special projects editor at the Post spent 31 years toiling at newspapers, including 24 at both The Kentucky Post and its parent pape...
From the 02/25/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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