• Verizon Sues Cox Over Eight Phone Patents
• Arbitrator Favors MASN Over Time Warner
• BigBand Tunes Up Switched Digital Video
• It's Not the Web, It's HBO
• Sundance Walks Down ‘Abbey Road’ Again
• NFL Network Kicks Off ‘Super Bowl Classics’
• LATV Buys American Latino TV

• Speed Drops On-Demand Flag on ‘Pinks’
• Planet Green Partners for Eco Advocacy
• Noonan Gets Nod as Viamedia COO

• SciFi, Virgin Not ‘Stranded’

Verizon Sues Cox Over Eight Phone Patents
Verizon, after winning a patent-infringement decision against Vonage Holdings last year, has trained its legal guns on cable's phone services with a similar lawsuit against Cox Communications. click to read more...
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Arbitrator Favors MASN Over Time Warner
A federally authorized arbitrator has ruled that Time Warner Cable's offer to distribute a regional sports network just to its North Carolina customers with a digital package was discriminatory and effectively a denial of carriage. The ruling was another victory for the owners of Mid-Atlantic Sports Network. click to read more...
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BigBand Tunes Up Switched Digital Video
BigBand Networks is doubling the capacity of its switched digital video system, with an upgrade that will allow one server to support 24,000 active tuners in a cable system. click to read more...
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It's Not the Web, It's HBO
HBO is giving its subscribers the opportunity to watch The Wire on their laptops. The network launched into cyberspace Monday (Jan. 21) with the debut of its HBO On Broadband service in Time Warner Cable's Wisconsin division, featuring more than 400 hours of Hollywood movies like King Kong and original shows like Entourage. click to read more...
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Sundance Walks Down ‘Abbey Road’ Again
Sundance Channel has scored the rights to the second season of music show Live From Abbey Road from FremantleMedia Enterprises. click to read more...
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NFL Network Kicks Off ‘Super Bowl Classics’
As an expanded lead-in of sorts to the Big Game, NFL Network over the next two weeks will encore 10 Super Bowls past, including previous contests featuring this year’s participants, the New England Patriots and New York Giants. There are also two replays of this year’s regular-season matchup between the Super Bowl XLII combatants. click to read more...
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LATV Buys American Latino TV
LATV Networks, the bilingual music and entertainment delivered by digital multicast, has acquired American Latino TV, the syndication and production company for English-language TV shows created by and for bicultural/bilingual U.S. Latinos. click to read more...
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Speed Drops On-Demand Flag on ‘Pinks’
Speed, which is dropping the flag on its move to high-definition on Feb. 7 when it begins 100 hours of coverage from Daytona Speedweeks, will make the fifth season of Pinks available to cable operators’ video- on-demand platforms a week before its launch on the linear network next month. click to read more...
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Planet Green Partners for Eco Advocacy
Planet Green, Discovery Communications’ multi-platform environmental initiative, has formed partnerships with 10 of the world’s leading nonprofit environmental organizations and advocacy groups. click to read more...
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Noonan Gets Nod as Viamedia COO
Independent cable rep firm Viamedia has named industry veteran Joe Noonan as COO, a position in which he will have responsibility for running the organization on a daily basis. click to read more...
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