• Final Chapter For WGA Strike
• Telemundo Launches Multiplatform DTV Campaign
• Markey Bill Focuses On Internet Market Data
• ACA: A La Carte Would Be Status Quo
• Hill Lawmakers Want DTV Czar
• Martin Might Be Shifting On DBS Must Carry
• NCTA Boss Dumps On Martin Class A Plan

• CSTV Plays Name Change Game
• GSN Finds A Diamond In New Executive VP
• Intelsat Promotes Two Officials To Replace COO
• Fox Cable Counsel Promoted to Fox Networks Post
• Outdoor Channel Says WOW After Launches
• TCA Sets Back-Up Plan in Case of SAG Strike
• Yahoo Buys Web-Video Management Startup

• Ion Stitches 'M*A*S*H' Syndication Deal
• National Geographic Docks With America's Port

Final Chapter For WGA Strike
The strike by the Writers Guild of America is done. In New York and Los Angeles, 3,775 members of the union voted. Of those, 92.5% voted to end their walk-out and return to work. click to read more...
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Telemundo Launches Multiplatform DTV Campaign
NBC Universal-owned Telemundo is expected to announce today the launch of Alerta Digital (Digital Alert), a company-wide, national public service awareness campaign aimed at educating Hispanic viewers about the upcoming digital TV transition. click to read more...
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Markey Bill Focuses On Internet Market Data
Washington -- A bill sponsored by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) would give the Federal Communications Commission one year to study a range of Internet-related competition issues and conduct at least eight "public broadband summits" for some face-to-face contact with the nation's legions of Web surfers. click to read more...
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ACA: A La Carte Would Be Status Quo
Big cable programmers shouldn't have a worry if the Federal Communications Commission adopts so-called wholesale a la carte rules because many content owners claim they make their channels available in that manner today, the American Cable Association said Tuesday. click to read more...
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Hill Lawmakers Want DTV Czar
Washington -- Senate Commerce Committee chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and House Energy and Commerce Committee John Dingell (D-Mich.) sent President Bush a letter asking him to create a digital TV transition task force headed by Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin. click to read more...
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Martin Might Be Shifting On DBS Must Carry
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin might be retreating from his plan dealing with the carriage of local TV signals by satellite carriers DirecTV and Dish Network in early 2009 after the digital TV transition. click to read more...
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NCTA Boss Dumps On Martin Class A Plan
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin "has proposed a new and unprecedented must carry mandate for low power television stations, injecting new uncertainty and potential litigation at a critical time in the DTV transition," National Cable & Telecommunications Association president Kyle McSlarrow plans to tell a House subcommittee on Wednesday. click to read more...
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CSTV Plays Name Change Game
Following a change in leadership last month, College Sports Television is being reorganized into CBS Sports, melding the cable, broadcast and online activities of CSTV into its brand. click to read more...
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GSN Finds A Diamond In New Executive VP
GSN has hired cable programming and marketing veteran Heidi Diamond as an executive vice president, the latest move into the games network's front offices under new president David Goldhill and at a time when the network plans its first foray into live programming. click to read more...
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Intelsat Promotes Two Officials To Replace COO
Intelsat, the world's largest provider of fixed satellite services, has named two executives to replace its chief operating officer, who resigned last Friday. click to read more...
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Fox Cable Counsel Promoted to Fox Networks Post
Fox Cable executive Rita Tuzon has been promoted to the post of executive vice president and general counsel of the Fox Networks Group, officials said Monday. click to read more...
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Outdoor Channel Says WOW After Launches
WideOpenWest has launched Outdoor Channel on digital cable in or around Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, the independently owned programmer said Tuesday. click to read more...
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TCA Sets Back-Up Plan in Case of SAG Strike
The Television Critics Association is making contingency plans in case its summer press tour is threatened by a strike by the Screen Actors Guild. click to read more...
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Yahoo Buys Web-Video Management Startup
Yahoo, in the midst of fighting off Microsoft's hostile takeover bid, said Tuesday it has acquired Maven Networks, a provider of online-video management services, for about $160 million. click to read more...
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