• Digeo Cuts Staff in Half
• Winfrey: Talker Won’t Appear On Its OWN Before 2011
• Turner Reorganization Boosts Koonin, Snyder, Levy
• Sci Fi Promotes Howe to President
• Tennessee Cable Group Maintains Opposition to Utility Plan
• Court Rejects Suit To Overturn N.C. Satellite Tax
• NAACP Awards Strikes Agreement With Striking Writers

• Google: Melding TV's 'Emotion' With Web Tracking
• AT&T Replacing Vault Batteries After Explosions
• Harmonic Plans for Unicast Universe

• ‘The Office’ Heads to Chile

Digeo Cuts Staff in Half
Digeo on Tuesday laid off 80 of its 160 employees -- halting development for two of its retail high-definition digital video recorders -- and said CEO Mike Fidler will leave the company. click to read more...
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Winfrey: Talker Won’t Appear On Its OWN Before 2011
Oprah Winfrey, who Tuesday announced she’s teaming with Discovery Communications to launch her own cable network in 2009, said she won’t be able to air repeats of The Oprah Winfrey Show on the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network before her contract with broadcast affiliates ends in 2011. She hinted, during a phone conference, that the popular one-hour afternoon show could end up there on the new service after her King World Productions syndication deal ends. click to read more...
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Turner Reorganization Boosts Koonin, Snyder, Levy
In a major reorganizational move, Turner Broadcasting Inc. Tuesday promoted veteran programming and sales executives Steve Koonin, Stu Snyder and David Levy to president positions, while Turner Entertainment Group head Mark Lazarus departs the company. click to read more...
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Sci Fi Promotes Howe to President
Dave Howe has been named president of Sci Fi Channel, officials said Wednesday. click to read more...
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Tennessee Cable Group Maintains Opposition to Utility Plan
A Davidson County, Tenn. chancellor has rejected an attempt of the Chattanooga Electric Power Board to dismiss a state cable association challenge to the municipal utility's broadband build. click to read more...
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Court Rejects Suit To Overturn N.C. Satellite Tax
A federal appeals court has rejected an attempt by DirecTV and EchoStar to overturn a state tax in North Carolina. click to read more...
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NAACP Awards Strikes Agreement With Striking Writers
The NAACP Image Awards will escape the glitz-less appearance of this year's Golden Globes celebration, for the NAACP has reached an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of America that will alow union workers to script the show. click to read more...
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Google: Melding TV's 'Emotion' With Web Tracking
Google wants to take the ad-targeting capability that powers Internet ads and marry it with the "emotion" provided by television advertising, said Vincent Dureau, the search company's head of TV technology. click to read more...
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AT&T Replacing Vault Batteries After Explosions
Municipal officials, long critical of the size and placement of powering vaults needed to back up AT&T's U-verse video service, now have concerns that range beyond aesthetics. Sometimes, the units explode. click to read more...
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Harmonic Plans for Unicast Universe
LOS ANGELES -- Harmonic outlined a future “video-aware router” that would enhance traditional cable radio-frequency equipment to more efficiently deliver dozens of unicast video and data streams to subscribers. Product to deliver the equivalent of 100 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) channels over a single port planned for 2010 or 2011. click to read more...
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