• TiVo Shares Fall After No Decision In Dish Contempt Case
• Comcast Sues FCC Over Network Management Finding
• Harbinger Adds To Cablevision Stake
• Gustav Rains Down Ratings for The Weather Channel
• Cable Stocks Feel Some Pain
• SeaChange Posts Profit On Cable Spending
• Comcast, HDNet Strike Carriage Deal

• Olympics Buffet Stuffs DirecTV’s Interactive Audience
• Nat Geo Mobilizes
• Nexstar Lands Retrans Deal with DirecTV, AT&T
• Cablevision Lights Up Wi-Fi On Long Island
• Copper Thieves Fleece AT&T Again
• FNC Takes Nielsen Vote Tuesday At RNC
• MTV International Plugs In HD Music, Kids Channel

• Couture Tops November UFC Card
• ActiveVideo Networks Hires Programming VP
• Palin’s Speech Draws 37.2 Million Viewers
• Ratings for FX’s ‘Shield’ Slip in Final-Season Premiere

TiVo Shares Fall After No Decision In Dish Contempt Case
TiVo shares plunged 16.5% Thursday after a federal judge did not issue a decision on the company’s request to hold Dish Network in contempt of a court order related to TiVo’s patent-infringement victory against the satellite operator. click to read more...
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Comcast Sues FCC Over Network Management Finding
Washington–Comcast Corp. on Thursday sued the Federal Communications Commission in a federal appeals court over the agency’s recent finding that the cable company had mismanaged its broadband network while consumers traded large video files over the Internet. click to read more...
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Harbinger Adds To Cablevision Stake
New York hedge fund Harbinger Capital continues to beef up its position in Cablevision Systems, filing documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Thursday showing that the activist investor now owns more than 21 million shares of the Bethpage, N.Y. MSO, or 9.1% of its outstanding stock. click to read more...
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Gustav Rains Down Ratings for The Weather Channel
Hurricane Gustav was must-see TV over the Labor Day weekend. More than 65 million total viewers clicked over periodically to The Weather Channel as the one-time Category 3 hurricane whipped its way toward New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. click to read more...
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Cable Stocks Feel Some Pain
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped more than 340 points (3%) to 11,188.23 on Thursday, amid fears of a slowing global economy. And while the biggest declines were in the financial services and technology sectors, cable stocks did not escape unscathed. click to read more...
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SeaChange Posts Profit On Cable Spending
Video-on-demand vendor SeaChange International, citing strong spending from North American cable operators, swung to a $1.5 million profit for the quarter ended July 31 after posting a net loss in the year-ago period and reported 15% growth in revenue. click to read more...
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Comcast, HDNet Strike Carriage Deal
Comcast Cable will offer Dallas-based HDNet on its high definition programming lineup as part of a carriage agreement announced Thursday. click to read more...
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Olympics Buffet Stuffs DirecTV’s Interactive Audience
More than 1.8 million DirecTV subscribers partook in the satellite service’s free interactive platform and services throughout NBCU’s two-week coverage of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, company officials said Thursday. click to read more...
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Nat Geo Mobilizes
National Geographic Ventures announced Thursday that it has formed a mobile division to deliver content, video programming and games to wireless phones, with a mobile content site set to launch in October. click to read more...
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Nexstar Lands Retrans Deal with DirecTV, AT&T
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc., an Irving, Texas-based owner of 50 television stations reaching more than 8% of all U.S. households, has agreed to a new retransmission consent deal with AT&T and DirecTV, giving the telco and the DBS the right to distribute content produced by local news stations in its 29 markets. click to read more...
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Cablevision Lights Up Wi-Fi On Long Island
Cablevision Systems has gone live with the first broad rollout of its metro Wi-Fi network in areas of Long Island, a service it is offering free for broadband customers as an enticement to stay plugged into cable. click to read more...
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Copper Thieves Fleece AT&T Again
AT&T has been hit again by copper thieves–this time in West Virginia–and is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators. click to read more...
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FNC Takes Nielsen Vote Tuesday At RNC
When viewer votes were registered Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention, it was a cable victory led by Fox News Channel. click to read more...
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MTV International Plugs In HD Music, Kids Channel
MTV Networks International will launch MTVNHD, a high-definition channel dedicated to music and kids, on Monday, Sept. 15 for viewers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland and Sweden. click to read more...
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Couture Tops November UFC Card
UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture will return to the octagon after a one-year absence as part of the mix martial arts company’s Nov. 15 UFC 91 pay-per-view fight card. click to read more...
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ActiveVideo Networks Hires Programming VP
ActiveVideo Networks, the San Jose, Calif.-based developer of interactive television technology, Thursday named Jason Harvey as its new vice president and general manager of programming strategy and operations. click to read more...
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