• Grande Makes It Official
• Writers Guild, Stuidos May Be Ready to Resume Negotiations
• WGA Sets Tuesday Rally Around The Oscars
• WGA East Plans Awards 'Event'
• Anime Signals On-Demand Mediacom Deal
• ‘HSM’ Productions Granted Funding
• Sprint To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Close 8% of Stores

• Midcontinent Becomes Third Op to Ankle ACA
• Comcast Media Pulling Plug on HITS2Home
• Stevens Leans on FCC’s Martin About Small Cable

• Kids Choices: Obama, McCain

Grande Makes It Official
San Marcos, Texas-based overbuilder Grande Communications made it official Friday, issuing a press release that it has hired New York-based cable investment banker Waller Capital Corp. to advise it in “exploring all of its strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value.” click to read more...
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Writers Guild, Stuidos May Be Ready to Resume Negotiations
A Writers Guild blogger reports 'back channel' discussions that could lead to resumed negotiations. click to read more...
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WGA Sets Tuesday Rally Around The Oscars
The Writers Guild of America, on strike for 11 weeks, hasn’t softened its resolve, scheduling a rally tomorrow related to the Academy Awards and sending writers from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to Washington. click to read more...
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WGA East Plans Awards 'Event'
The Writers Guild of America East will honor nominees and recipients of the 2008 WGA Awards at an informal reception at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel Feb. 9, the striking union said Friday. click to read more...
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Anime Signals On-Demand Mediacom Deal
Anime Network has reached a carriage accord with Mediacom Communications, giving the channel placement on the operator’s systems as a subscription video on demand service. click to read more...
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‘HSM’ Productions Granted Funding
The NAMM Foundation and Disney Channel have announced the recipients of a grant program encouraging middle and high schools across the country to put on their own stage productions of the network’s telefilm High School Musical. click to read more...
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Sprint To Cut 4,000 Jobs, Close 8% of Stores
Sprint Nextel, continuing to bleed subscribers, said Friday that it in the next few months it plans to lay off 4,000 employees, or about 7% of its work force, and close 8% of company-owned retail locations. click to read more...
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Midcontinent Becomes Third Op to Ankle ACA
The American Cable Association, a lobbying group for independent cable companies, has lost a third member, with this week’s defection of Midcontinent Communications.Midcontinent, based in South Dakota with 200,000 subscribers. click to read more...
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Comcast Media Pulling Plug on HITS2Home
The Comcast Media Center, which is in the process of consolidating its services onto fewer satellites, is pulling the plug this summer on its HITS2Home option for small cable companies, officials said Friday. click to read more...
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Stevens Leans on FCC’s Martin About Small Cable
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) wants to know what Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin intends to do about small cable companies that feel burdened by new FCC rules on the mandatory carriage of local TV stations. click to read more...
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