• DirecTV Goes Wide With 'Classic' TiVo HD DVR

  By Todd Spangler, February 9, 2012
  DirecTV is once again offering a TiVo DVR to all its U.S. customers -- for the first time in seven years -- although the box uses TiVo's older, standard-definition user interface and lacks certain DirecTV features, including multiroom DVR.  More

• Zee TV to Launch HD Service By Quarter's End

  Mike Reynolds, February 6, 2012
  Asia TV USA Ltd.will begin offering a high-definition simulcast of its Zee TV service by the end of the first quarter.  More

• New Orleans’ Fox Station Goes Dark on Dish

    
  By Mike Farrell, February 6, 2012
  Dish Network subscribers in the New Orleans market lost access to local Fox affiliate WVUE last Tuesday (Jan. 31), after the satellite-TV provider and the station could not reach a retransmission consent agreement.  More

• Operators Lukewarm On USPS '2nd Ounce Free' Offer

  By Todd Spangler, February 3, 2012
  The U.S. Postal Service, desperate for revenue, is trying to encourage more businesses to send direct-mail first-class by letting them send 2-ounce letters for the rate of a 1-ounce mailing -- an offer cable, satellite and telco operators are greeting with a collective shrug.  More

• Voom Get Big Lift In Lawsuit Against Dish

  Mike Farrell, January 31, 2012
  A nearly $2.5-billion lawsuit pitting former Cablevision Systems' satellite programming arm Voom HD against No. 2 satellite television service provider Dish Network (nee EchoStar) appears to be moving closer to a trial, after an appeals judge affirmed that Dish destroyed evidence critical to the case.  More

• Mass. Dispute Puts Retrans on FCC’s Radar

    
  By John Eggerton, January 30, 2012
  The discord over retransmission-consent reached the nation’s capital again, prompting more than a dozen legislators to request FCC intervention in the nowresolved dispute between Sunbeam Television and satellite-TV provider DirecTV.  More

• DirecTV, Sunbeam Tackle Retrans Accord

  John Eggerton, January 26, 2012
  Sunbeam and DirecTV have reached a retransmission-consent agreement that ensures, for one thing, that Super Bowl XLVI will not be blacked out on Sunbeam's Boston NBC affiliate.  More

• Sunbeam's Ansin Hopes for Quick Agreement with DirecTV

  John Eggerton, January 26, 2012
  Sunbeam president Edmund Ansin gave no assurances to Washington that there wouldn't be a Super Bowl blackout, though he did say negotiations were taking place with DirecTV, with hopes of finalizing an agreement "quickly."  More

• Sen. Kerry Wants Sunbeam, DirecTV Pledge of No Super Bowl Blackout

  John Eggerton, January 24, 2012
  Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has asked Sunbeam and DirecTV to publicly state that whatever happens in its ongoing retrans impasse, the DBS provider's subs will have access to the Super Bowl broadcast on the station group's NBC affiliate, WHDH Boston.  More

• DirecTV Says It is Available 24/7 to Resolve Sunbeam Retrans Disconnect

  John Eggerton, January 24, 2012
  In a letter to Massachusetts lawmakers Tuesday, DirecTV president Michael White said his company is available 24/7 to negotiate with Sunbeam management over their current retrans impasse in Miami and Boston.  More

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