Programming

Stakeholders and interested spectators were quick to react Friday to the news the FCC had sunset the ban on exclusive contracts, including a warning from one powerful senator that he would be monitoring the marketplace.
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) said he was reviewing the action "very carefully."

As the Brooklyn Nets tip off their inaugural season, NBA TV will be on hand throughout the campaign.
The pro basketball league’s network will put the spotlight on Olympic gold medalist Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and company on the fourth season of reality series The Association, as the Nets cross the Hudson River after 35 years of playing in New Jersey.
Starting Oct. 16 at 10 p.m. (ET), the cross-platform series includes episodes on NBA TV and original webisodes on NBA.com.

Showtime will, for the first time, use Brian Kenny, long a staple of ESPN's boxing coverage, for its coverage of Saturday night's event featuring rising superstar Canelo Alvarez.

Kenny will join the broadcast team featuring Mauro Ranallo, who is also the colorful voice of Showtime's Strikeforce mixed martial arts coverage, as well as veteran Al Bernstein and current welterweight world champion Paulie Malignaggi.

In a House Commerce Manufacturing and Trade Committee hearing Wednesday on mobile and online apps, the focus was on jobs, but one of the messages from legislators was that more spectrum in needed for wireless.

Hispanic-themed network NuvoTV will partner with actress/recording artist Jennifer Lopez to develop exclusive programming for the network as part of a long-term deal announced Wednesday.