MCN - February 23, 2009

At a time when many cash-strapped Americans are staying home on movie night, the interest in made-for-cable films, which thus far in 2009 have provided several networks with a major ratings boost, is expected to swell.

• Content
• Scripps: We Fit the Times
• Reviews

• Finance
• Nexstar Nets A Bigger Take From Retrans
• Paul Allen Loosens His Grip
• Harbinger's Cablevision Sell-Off Goes On

• Newsline
• Early DTV Switch: Hardly a Hitch
• Ergen to Testify on Hill This Week
• Liberty Media Buys Into Sirius XM Radio
• Comcast Comes Up Short
• Verizon's FiOS Is Tops in Pay Television Satisfaction Study
• Comcast Funds Wideband, Digital TV
• For the Record
• An All-Star Slam Dunk
• 'Alice' Arrives In U.S. on Comcast's Fancast
• Web TV Plans Percolate
• Coda
• Coda

• People
• People

• Platforms
• SCTE’s CEO Thinks Business
• Translation Please
• What’s Up in the Upstream?

• Rules
• Some Cable Fines Deferred at the FCC
• Group Calls for Wider Ad-Discrimination Ban
• Pushback on '70/70’ Form

• Through the Wire
• Through the Wire

• Top Stories
• On Tap: Cable’s New Shows
• Opening Lines

• Viewpoint
• Talkback
• Box[e]ed In
• Carrots, Sticks and Children’s TV