• Sundance Channel on Block: Analyst
• FCC Yields to DirecTV, Dish on HD Carriage
• Cox Denies Verizon’s Patent Claims
• LOWDOWN ON THE UPFRONT: Stars, Execs Take Center Stage at Sci Fi Upfront
• Verizon Stocks VOD Shelves
• Rentrak Inks VOD Measurement Deal With Turner
• Qwest Looks to Disconnect 700 Workers

• Larry King Lines Up Obama for Thursday Broadcast
• NBCU Goes Gangster With New VOD Category
• Anderson Cooper, After Surgery, Trails Obama

• Poll Details Pressures ‘Generally Happy’ Collegians Face

Sundance Channel on Block: Analyst
Sundance Channel might be joining The Weather Channel on the cable selling block. Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield wrote in a report, citing “multiple” sources that Sundance, which counts some 26 million subscribers, was seeking a minimum of $400 million, which would value it at $15 per subscribers. click to read more...
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FCC Yields to DirecTV, Dish on HD Carriage
DirecTV and Dish Network have won major concessions from the Federal Communications Commission on the carriage of local TV signals in HD format following completion of broadcasters’ digital transition early next year, FCC and industry officials said Wednesday. click to read more...
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Cox Denies Verizon’s Patent Claims
Cox Communications, in a court filing Tuesday, denied that it infringed voice patents owned by Verizon Communications and requested that the case be dismissed. click to read more...
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LOWDOWN ON THE UPFRONT: Stars, Execs Take Center Stage at Sci Fi Upfront
The cast of Battlestar Galactica Tuesday fielded press questions before Sci Fi Channel’s upfront presentation here, and star Edward James Olmos sounded almost bitter about the end of the show. click to read more...
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Verizon Stocks VOD Shelves
Verizon Communications announced the availability of a string of new and recently added video-on-demand titles, in deals with partners including CBS, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian Channel and Ovation TV. click to read more...
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Rentrak Inks VOD Measurement Deal With Turner
Rentrak has won a multiyear deal with Turner Broadcasting System to track on-demand viewing for all eight of the programmer’s services. click to read more...
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Qwest Looks to Disconnect 700 Workers
Qwest, the incumbent telephone provider in 14 states, is offering buy-outs to about 700 workers. The downsizing is prompted by a loss of business to competitive telephony providers, including cable companies and cellular rivals. click to read more...
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Larry King Lines Up Obama for Thursday Broadcast
Sen. Barack Obama will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live Thursday to discuss the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq and the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president. click to read more...
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NBCU Goes Gangster With New VOD Category
NBC Universal Wednesday announced it will make an unrated version of the Academy Award-nominated film “American Gangster” and a new “Gangster Movies” category available to on-demand and pay-per-view customers April 3. click to read more...
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Anderson Cooper, After Surgery, Trails Obama
Anderson Cooper 360º tonight will focus on Sen. Barack Obama as Cooper, who blogged today about undergoing minor surgery to remove a spot of skin cancer from his face, spends the day with the campaigning presidential candidate. click to read more...
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