• Starz Stocks Up Film Vault With Five Deals
• Versus Picks Up NHL Option
• AMC Series Breaks Well
• Outdoor, Fox Business Top Emerging Networks: Beta
• RBC Daniels Tops in 2007 Cable M&A
• Oxygen 'Hires' Ratings Record
• Players Network Recruits TVN for VOD Aid

• Weather Channel HD Facility Nears Finish Line
• AT&T Turns Internet Dial to 10
• Sci Fi Lands ‘Jericho’

• History Special Draws 5.4 Million ‘People’

Starz Stocks Up Film Vault With Five Deals
Starz Entertainment has extended its exclusive access to first-run movies from Sony Pictures Television and Disney-ABC Domestic Television, and signed acquisition deals for library titles from Warner Bros., MGM and Universal Pictures. click to read more...
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Versus Picks Up NHL Option
Versus, which is posting improved ratings with the puck sport in the 2007-08 campaign, exercised an option for three more seasons, a deal that will make it the NHL's exclusive cable home through the conclusion of the 2011 campaign. click to read more...
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AMC Series Breaks Well
AMC’s second original series Breaking Bad cooked up some good numbers in its debut Sunday night. click to read more...
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Outdoor, Fox Business Top Emerging Networks: Beta
Outdoor Channel and Fox Business Network are the top emerging networks that operators most want to carry, while DIY Network and Lifetime Movie Network rank as the leading mid-sized networks, according to the latest study from Beta Research. click to read more...
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RBC Daniels Tops in 2007 Cable M&A
Denver-based telecommunications investment banker RBC Daniels and its parent RBC Capital Markets completed 46 cable television, telecom, broadcast and Internet services transactions in 2007, leading the pack in the number of deals completed for the year. click to read more...
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Oxygen 'Hires' Ratings Record
Oxygen’s Jan. 19 original movie Husband For Hire set a network ratings record for an original movie premiere. click to read more...
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Players Network Recruits TVN for VOD Aid
TVN Entertainment will manage and distribute Players Network’s library of original content, including the VOD service Vegas On Demand, the companies said Wednesday. click to read more...
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Weather Channel HD Facility Nears Finish Line
The Weather Channel said its 12,500-square-foot high-definition TV production facility in Atlanta is on track to be completed this month, and has set June 2 for the premiere of its first HD studio programs. click to read more...
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AT&T Turns Internet Dial to 10
AT&T next month will introduce a new tier for U-verse customers that will provide up to 10 megabits per second downstream and up to 1.5 Mbps upstream over digital subscriber lines. click to read more...
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Sci Fi Lands ‘Jericho’
Fans of CBS drama Jericho can now go nuts for the show on cable as Sci Fi Channel has acquired the rights to the series’ first two seasons, totaling 29 episodes. click to read more...
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