• Bewkes Eyes Reducing Time Warner Stake
• Time Warner Cable Reports Stronger 4Q Results
• Cox Faces HDTV Set-Top Shortages
• Diller Goes Easy On Liberty
• CNN Wins Super Tuesday Cable Ratings
• Time Warner Cable: Dismiss WealthTV Complaint
• Comcast Cites Martin’s ‘War On Cable’ To Appeals Court

• Rehr Critical Of Cable Lawsuit
• Current Expands Into Italy With Sky Italia Distribution
• Hensleigh Joins Ion as Chief Marketer
• TVS Offers Small Cablers Path to Digital Video
• Vogel Steps Down As Dish President

• HBO Sacking "Inside The NFL"
• Technology Influencers Choose Cable For TV Services

Bewkes Eyes Reducing Time Warner Stake
With less than two months under his belt as CEO of Time Warner Inc., Jeff Bewkes lived up to expectations that he would try to shake up the media giant, announcing Wednesday that Time Warner is initiating direct talks with Time Warner Cable management and its board of directors to determine how and when it could reduce its ownership in the cable company. click to read more...
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Time Warner Cable Reports Stronger 4Q Results
Time Warner Cable reported basic subscriber losses of about 50,000 customers in the fourth quarter, beating most analysts’ estimates and giving some hope that the second largest cable operator in the country is on track to reversing past customer erosion trends. click to read more...
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Cox Faces HDTV Set-Top Shortages
Cox Communications’ stash of high-definition set-tops is running low in at least three markets, a problem the operator characterized as a “brief issue” stemming from recent efforts at boosting its digital-cable penetration rate. click to read more...
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Diller Goes Easy On Liberty
IAC chairman Barry Diller kept the kid gloves on relative to his public legal battle with Liberty Media during IAC’s fourth-quarter conference call Wednesday, calling the situation “unfortunate.” click to read more...
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CNN Wins Super Tuesday Cable Ratings
CNN was the cable-news network ratings winner with its Super Tuesday coverage. click to read more...
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Time Warner Cable: Dismiss WealthTV Complaint
Time Warner Cable wants a carriage complaint filed by WealthTV dismissed, claiming that allegations that it discriminated against the independently owned channel are false. click to read more...
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Comcast Cites Martin’s ‘War On Cable’ To Appeals Court
Comcast is telling a federal court that a key reason it lost a regulatory dispute at the Federal Communications Commission last year was FCC chairman Kevin Martin’s ongoing “war on cable” to pressure the industry into selling channels on an a la carte basis. click to read more...
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Rehr Critical Of Cable Lawsuit
The head of the National Association of Broadcasters is accusing C-SPAN and other major programmers of trying to scuttle the digital television transition by going to court to overturn federal regulations helpful to some TV stations. click to read more...
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Current Expands Into Italy With Sky Italia Distribution
Current, the peer-to-peer news and information network, today announced that it has reached a distribution agreement with SKY Italia. The deal, which calls for an Italian version of Current TV will add an additional 4.24 million households, making Current TV available in 56 million households worldwide. click to read more...
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Hensleigh Joins Ion as Chief Marketer
Ion Media Networks Wednesday named The Walt Disney Co. veteran Eleo Hensleigh chief marketing officer, with oversight for all consumer and business-to-business branding inititiaves. click to read more...
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TVS Offers Small Cablers Path to Digital Video
Transparent Video Systems is looking to fly below the radar of the cable industry’s two tech heavyweights – Motorola and Cisco’s Scientific Atlanta – with a turnkey digital headend system designed for operators with fewer than 10,000 subscribers. click to read more...
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Vogel Steps Down As Dish President
Dish Network said late Tuesday that president Carl Vogel has resigned for personal reasons. He will be replaced by chairman and CEO Charles Ergen. click to read more...
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