• Friends, Colleagues Praise Dressler
• Investor Calls for Roberts Ouster
• Directors, Studios Reach New Contract
• WGA Cuts Deal With New Media Firm
• Time Warner Cable to Test Internet Caps in Texas
• Grande’s On the Block
• Kansas Stations Seek Liberty-DirecTV Conditions

• Turner Steps Up Digital Game
• DirecTV Plans Price Increase

• Oxygen’s Klarman: He Can Handle a Women’s Network

Friends, Colleagues Praise Dressler
Old Greenwich, Conn. -- Fred Dressler's love of friends, family, colleagues and Syracuse University shone through during a 90-minute memorial service here Thursday, attended by about 400 people who came to celebrate the life of the veteran Time Warner Cable executive, who died Dec. 24 of pancreatic cancer at age 66. click to read more...
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Investor Calls for Roberts Ouster
Comcast stock dipped 4% (77 cents per share) to $17.41 Thursday after a report that one of its institutional shareholders has called for the ouster of chairman and CEO Brian Roberts. click to read more...
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Directors, Studios Reach New Contract
After less than a week of formal talks, the Directors Guild of America has reached a new contract with TV and film studios, and now it remains to be seen if the striking Writers Guild of America will resume their negotiations and work toward a similar pact. click to read more...
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WGA Cuts Deal With New Media Firm
The latest interim agreement crafted by the Writers Guild of America is with a newly formed company from producer-director Doug Limon that will create “television-style programming for alternative distribution.” click to read more...
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Time Warner Cable to Test Internet Caps in Texas
Time Warner Cable is targeting the small number of subscribers who eat up most of its Internet bandwidth, with plans to test a new tiered pricing structure for broadband access later this year in Beaumont, Texas, that will charge customers based on how much data they download. click to read more...
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Grande’s On the Block
San Marcos, Texas-based overbuilder Grande Communications, encouraged by the high price of recent overbuilder deals, is putting itself on the block, according to cable finance executives. click to read more...
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Kansas Stations Seek Liberty-DirecTV Conditions
Washington -- Kansas-based TV stations want the Federal Communications to hold up Liberty Media’s bid to take effective control of DirecTV until the satellite TV provider agrees to deliver local TV signals in every U.S. market by the end of 2008. click to read more...
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Turner Steps Up Digital Game
As expected, Turner Broadcasting System will take over the operations of NBA TV and NBA.com as part of a new joint venture with the National Basketball Association. click to read more...
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DirecTV Plans Price Increase
Like its satellite rival Dish Network, DirecTV is raisings prices on some of its program offerings this year. click to read more...
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