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Broadcasting & Cable Today: The Business of Television



Friday, March 28, 2008

TODAY'SNEWS

FCC Allows Satellite-TV Providers to Phase In HD
By John Eggerton
Satellite companies gained a victory Thursday when the FCC voted to allow them to phase in a requirement that they carry all HD signals in any market where they carry any after the Feb. 17, 2009, switch to digital TV by all full-power TV stations. The commission also ruled that DirecTV’s and Dish Network's requirement to carry all TV stations in a market where they carry any extends to DTV signals just as it applies to analog TV stations.

More Layoffs at ABC News
By Marisa Guthrie
There were deep cuts at ABC News in New York this week as more than 20 employees in the finance and operations departments were informed that their jobs were being eliminated as part of an ongoing restructuring project that began last spring.

Kyle Chandler: Friday Night Lights Will Return for Season Three
By Joel Topcik
Kyle Chandler, star of NBC’s Friday Night Lights, confirmed that the perennially on-the-bubble drama will return for a third season.

Martin Pushes Comcast to Set ‘Date Certain’ on Network-Management Changes
By John Eggerton
FCC chairman Kevin Martin Thursday called on Comcast to provide the commission with a "date certain" for stopping the practice of "arbitrarily blocking certain applications on its network," which Martin said the company had admitted doing.

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Google to TV: We Want to Work with You
By Michael Malone
Addressing a room full of curious broadcasters at the Television Bureau of Advertising’s annual marketing conference in New York Thursday, Google TV Ads director Michael Steib stressed that the Web monolith is eager to work with broadcasters to bring a much wider swath of the ad market onto television.

Broadcaster of the Year Karpowicz Salutes Family and Industry
By Michael Malone
Meredith Broadcasting Group president Paul Karpowicz saluted his family, his co-workers, his former co-workers at LIN TV and every salesperson who ever knocked on a potential buyer’s door as he received the B&C Broadcaster of the Year award (at the Television Bureau of Advertisers marketing conference in New York Thursday.

Senate Commerce Committee to Consider FCC-Blocking Move
By John Eggerton
The Senate Commerce Committee slated April 2 for a markup of a legislative maneuver that would block the FCC's recent media-ownership-rule change.

McDowell Criticizes Mandated a la Carte, Auction Result
By John Eggerton
Republican FCC commissioner Robert McDowell said technology is driving an a la carte model that doesn't need a push from government. He also suggested that open-access mandates on just-acutioned advance wireless spectrum was nothing to brag about.

NTIA to Review Microtune DTV-Converter-Box Test Results
By John Eggerton
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said it will review test results submitted by tuner company Microtune that suggested that the digital-TV-to-analog converter boxes the NTIA has approved don't measure up, and it will audit boxes currently on the shelves, if necessary.

Markey: Net-Neutrality Bill Still Necessary
By John Eggerton
House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee chairman Ed Markey (D-Mass.) praised the agreement between Comcast and BitTorrent to work together toward a solution to the distribution of media-rich, bandwidth-heavy content over the Internet, but he said it did not obviate the need for open-access legislation, which he has proposed.

FROMB&CMAGAZINE

Go Diego Go
By Michael Malone
The stereotypical San Diegan might be a sun-baked surfer, but the station battle in the market is anything but mellow. A few percentage points separate the top three revenue earners, and stations are constantly finding niches to broadcast to, whether it's viewers in supermarkets or the market's booming Hispanic population—as Univision station KBNT is doing by increasing its news presence.
From the 03/24/2008 issue of Broadcasting & Cable




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