For the Record
By Multichannel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 1/18/2009 7:00:00 PM
Billy Campbell, TWCer Survive Crash
New York — Former Discovery Networks U.S. president Billy Campbell and an unnamed Time Warner Cable employee were among the survivors of last Thursday’s US Airways jet crash into the frigid Hudson River in New York City.
Campbell was headed to visit his family in Greenville, S.C., when Flight 1549 — shortly after take-off from LaGuardia International Airport — hit a flock of birds. Both the plane’s engines were knocked out, but the skilled pilot managed to glide the aircraft into a smooth water landing, and all 155 passengers were rescued. The plane was headed to Charlotte, N.C.
“Truly, the word is overused, but miraculous is the best way to describe it,” Campbell told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC that night, describing the plane’s smooth landing and everyone’s survival.
Time Warner Cable said one of its employees based in Charlotte, N.C., also was among the passengers aboard the stricken plane. Ellen East, TWC’s executive vice president of communications, said Thursday one female employee, from the company’s accounting department, was on the flight.
“Reports are she’s shaken up but otherwise OK,” East said in an email Thursday afternoon. She did not name the employee, citing privacy concerns.
Retrans Pact Inked by Verizon, CBS
New York — Verizon Communications and CBS signed long-term retransmission-consent and program-carriage agreements including on-demand access to hit shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigationand Survivor for Verizon’s FiOS TV service and mobile rights to full episodes of shows including 60 Minutes for V Cast.
Verizon “broadened and extended” rights for retransmission consent for CBS’s owned and operated television stations in the accords, the companies said. Other terms, such as the time length of the contracts and how much Verizon will pay CBS, were not disclosed. Verizon secured mobile rights for full episodes of several top-rated CBS programs, including 60 Minutes. It also gained national video-on-demand rights for programs in standard and high-definition formats, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Survivor and Numb3rs, plus video-on-demand rights for local news shows on CBS stations in SD and HD.
AT&T Expands Viacom Content Deals
New York — Viacom’s MTV Networks and BET Networks have reached an expanded agreement for content distribution across multiple platforms, including television and wireless, among other content initiatives, the companies said.
The agreement includes new HDTV and international channels, renewal for existing channels, advertising expenditures, and content for AT&T CruiseCast, an in-car entertainment service that will launch this spring.
Seven new HDTV networks will join the AT&T U-verse TV lineup later this year: MTV HD, VH1 HD, CMT HD, BET HD, Nickelodeon HD, Comedy Central HD and Spike HD. The deal renews carriage of MTVN and BETN channels and video-on-demand content already on AT&T U-verse TV, which will add new international channels, including MTV India, later this year.
Five MTVN and BETN channels will be part of the AT&T CruiseCast in-car entertainment service when it launches later this spring.
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