Policy

Want to take on a Blue Ridge Communications subscriber in a video game to blow off steam while at the National Show? Stop by NTN Buzztime Inc.’s booth.

The interactive-TV vendor will demonstrate its new networked-play technology at the confab, to be held in Atlanta Sunday-Tuesday, by allowing booth guests to face off against Blue Ridge subscribers in multiplayer games such as “Texas Hold 'em,” “Billiards” and “Trivia.”

Blue Ridge serves more than 180,000 homes in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Programmers Say Duplicative Carriage of Local Stations Would Consume Capacity

Telcos, DBS, Overbuilders Pressure The FCC To Expand Cable-Channel Access

Las Vegas -- A House amendment designed to strengthen the hand of cable and satellite companies in carriage negotiations with TV stations across the country will go down to defeat in the Energy and Commerce Committee later this week, a senior broadcasting official predicted Sunday.

After reviewing the play, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Monday that the ABC Monday Night Football lead-in that showed Desperate Housewives siren Nicollette Sheridan dropping her towel in front of Philadelphia Eagles star Terrell Owens did not violate federal indecency laws.

The steamy pregame scene, set in an empty Eagles locker room, showed a semi-nude Sheridan dropping her towel before leaping into the arms of Owens after he consents to her come-hither seductions.