• Comcast Official Rips FCC Process
• Liberty Increases DirecTV Stake
• LOWDOWN ON THE UPFRONT: Lucas’ Force Is With Cartoon
• Motorola to Lay Off 2,600 More Employees
• Hallmark Movie Channel HD Debuts in San Antonio
• Comcast Ups HD Count in Philly
• CNN Appoints Director of International Newsource

• Mojo Debuts Preview On Hulu
• No Fooling: Yanks’ Belated Season Opener Drives YES

• MTV Serves Up Another Round of ‘Tila Tequila’
• NFL Unveils Preseason National TV Schedule

Comcast Official Rips FCC Process
The ups-and-downs of the FCC’s year-plus review of the Adelphia cable company deal “remind me of the U.S.-Russia basketball game in 1972, in the Olympics, where the clock didn’t reach the end until the outcome was determined in a different way,” Joe Waz, Comcast’s senior vice president of external affairs and public policy counsel, said Thursday. click to read more...
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Liberty Increases DirecTV Stake
Just weeks after closing its deal to acquire a 41% stake in DirecTV, Liberty Media is inching toward majority control of the satellite giant, stating Thursday that it has acquired an additional 78.3 million shares of DirecTV stock. click to read more...
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LOWDOWN ON THE UPFRONT: Lucas’ Force Is With Cartoon
New York -- The true force was with Cartoon Network during its upfront presentation here Thursday – not Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader, but Star Wars creator himself George Lucas. click to read more...
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Motorola to Lay Off 2,600 More Employees
Motorola, which is in the process of splitting off its money-losing mobile devices business, will lay off 2,600 employees, resulting in a $104 million charge for the first quarter, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Thursday. click to read more...
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Hallmark Movie Channel HD Debuts in San Antonio
The coming out party for Hallmark Movie Channel HD came in San Antonio, where the service debuted April 2 on Time Warner Cable’s system. click to read more...
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Comcast Ups HD Count in Philly
Comcast added five new high-definition channels to its lineup in the Philadelphia metro area, which includes surrounding suburbs and northern Delaware, bringing its HD count (including pay and local channels) to 31. click to read more...
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CNN Appoints Director of International Newsource
Eli Flournoy was named CNN Worldwide’s first director of International Newsource, officials said Thursday. The 17-year veteran of the network’s newsgathering operations in the United States and internationally, is charged with overseeing the expansion of the unit and ensuring that global affiliates receive an increasing amount of CNN original content. click to read more...
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Mojo Debuts Preview On Hulu
In Demand Networks’ Mojo HD is offering a preview episode from the third season of Three Sheets, its original series hosted by comedian Zane Lamprey, exclusively on Hulu one week before its network season premiere. click to read more...
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No Fooling: Yanks’ Belated Season Opener Drives YES
Opening Day turned into Opening Night, but the contest turned out to be the second most-watched New York Yankees season-starting telecast on broadcast or cable since 1995. click to read more...
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