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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Thursday, March 13, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

NAB to NTIA: Stock Grocery Shelves with DTV-to-Analog Converter Boxes
By John Eggerton
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration already considered putting digital-TV-transition information on grocery-store receipts. Now, the National Association of Broadcasters asked the NTIA to help get DTV-to-analog converter boxes into more grocery stores, particularly in rural areas far away from popular consumer-electronics chains.

FCC Is Asked for Ton of Information in House Investigation
By John Eggerton
The House Energy & Commerce Committee asked for a raft of documents from the FCC in its Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee's ongoing investigation of the agency's processes and decision-making.

Iger: Computer Replacing TV as Primary Entertainment Source
By Michael Malone
Disney president and CEO Bob Iger expressed a very bullish take on new media at the McGraw-Hill Media Summit Wednesday morning in New York, chastising media executives for their skittish view of the multiple-platform approach to delivering content.

Carey: Liberty Media Will Have Longer DirecTV Leash than News Corp.
By Ben Grossman
DirecTV president and CEO Chase Carey said he doesn’t see a lot of immediate change on the horizon since his company’s ownership transfer, but he expects the satellite-TV provider to have a longer leash with new owner Liberty Media as opposed to previous owner News Corp.

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Charter Communications Teams Up with Nielsen on Set-Top Data
By Glen Dickson
Ratings giant Nielsen officially launched a service that uses digital set-tops to measure television viewing and announced that cable operator Charter Communications will be the first to participate in the service.

TiVo to Deliver YouTube to TV Sets
By Glen Dickson
DVR-supplier TiVo inked a deal with Google’s YouTube unit that will allow TiVo customers with broadband-connected units to directly access YouTube videos from their living-room TV sets.

John Sykes Out at MTV Networks
By Anne Becker
MTV Networks veteran John Sykes is leaving the company and his role as president of network development.

Krod Mandoon, Snoop Dogg Highlight Comedy Central Development Slate
By Alex Weprin
Comedy Central unveiled its 2008-09 talent and development slate.

South Carolina News Crew Attacked
By Michael Malone
Three women and a man who were upset that a WSPA Spartanburg, S.C., TV reporter was gathering news on the arrest of a family member attacked the reporter Tuesday in Union, S.C.

TV One Gets The Hughleys
By John Eggerton
Twentieth Television sold sitcom The Hughleys to TV One.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Teaching Kids to Use a Gun

On the Sportsman Channel, based in Wisconsin, family-friendly television includes programs in which mom, dad and the kids—grade school children, at that—go hunting. The network, now in about 17 million homes, also has outreach programs to encourage parents to go outdoors with their kids. “You may not think of hunting and fishing as family oriented, but for all of our producers...
From the 03/10/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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