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January 28, 2008
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JUST THE FACTS: Discovery Channel's documentary Man on Wire won a pair of awards at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26.

'Sopranos' Kill At SAG Awards
Performers in HBO’s acclaimed mob series The Sopranos scored big at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held Jan. 27 at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles, winning three "Actors." click to read more...
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FCC Fines ABC Stations $1.4 Million For Indecency
The Federal Communications Commission said late Friday it plans to fine 51 ABC affiliates $1.4 million combined for airing female nudity in a February 2003 episode of the police drama NYPD Blue. click to read more...
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Bright House Serves Super-Sized 'Start Over'
Bright House Networks’ Tampa Bay system is deploying what it calls the largest “Start Over” service to date, with the network-based on-demand service to be available to about 600,000 area subscribers by the end of the first quarter. click to read more...
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Liquidus Makes VOD Classifieds Sing
Chicago-based Liquidus is using the photo-panning technique made famous by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to turn classified ads into more engaging on-demand video spots, for Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other operators. click to read more...
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Liberty Sues IAC Over Proposed Split
Liberty Media upped the ante in its brewing battle with IAC/InterActiveCorp, filing a suit in Delaware Chancery Court to block a move by the Internet giant to split into five separate companies. click to read more...
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Bids Reach $3.7B in First Two Days of 700-MHz Auction
After the first two days of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of licenses in the 700-Megahertz band, the 214 registered bidders had anted up $3.7 billion, with particular competition likely among Verizon, AT&T and Google. click to read more...
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RKO Signs Interim Agreement With Writers Guild
Add RKO Productions, part of RKO Pictures, to the growing list of companies that have reached an interim agreement with the striking Writers Guild of America, officials said Friday. click to read more...
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Comcast Responds to FCC Probe of Web Management
Comcast filed a response Friday at the Federal Communications Commission in connection with the agency’s probe of the company’s broadband traffic-management practices now under attack by groups claiming Comcast is blocking and slowing down large data files in a discriminatory manner. click to read more...
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Harvey Not Migrating With Versus

When Versus’ executive team relocates to parent Comcast’s Philadelphia headquarters in June, network president Gavin Harvey won’t be heading south. Click to read more...

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