• Former Showtime Exec Greenberg To Head New Premium Channel: Report
• Study: Major Broadband Providers Disrupt P2P
• Martin: Comcast Used `Blunt’ P2P Blocking
• AT&T Adds 148,000 U-verse Subscribers In Q1
• Spike TV Acquires Rights To Rambo Catalog
• Qubo Sets Health Guidelines for Advertisers
• BBC America Secures Comedy 'Gavin & Stacey'

• Animal Planet Bows Meerkat Documentary

• New Emmy Category Created for Reality-Show Host

Former Showtime Exec Greenberg To Head New Premium Channel: Report
Ex-Showtime official Mark Greenberg is poised to become the top executive of the new premium channel that will be launched by Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM. click to read more...
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Study: Major Broadband Providers Disrupt P2P
The eight biggest Internet service providers in the U.S.—which collectively serve more than 54 million broadband users—all “artificially interrupt” peer-to-peer traffic to some extent, according to a study by P2P video distributor Vuze. click to read more...
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Martin: Comcast Used `Blunt’ P2P Blocking
Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin says that Comcast Corp. used “blunt means to reduce peer-to-peer traffic by blocking certain traffic completely” but that the agency had not completed its investigation of the cable company’s broadband network management practices. click to read more...
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AT&T Adds 148,000 U-verse Subscribers In Q1
AT&T continued to rack up subscribers for its IPTV service in the first quarter, hitting 379,000 U-verse TV users as of March 31, while at the same time disconnections in the telephone company’s legacy wireline business hit an all-time high. click to read more...
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Spike TV Acquires Rights To Rambo Catalog
Spike TV Tuesday announced it has acquired the rights to all four of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo movies including the latest–and possibly–final installment which was released earlier this year. click to read more...
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Qubo Sets Health Guidelines for Advertisers
Qubo Tuesday announced that it has created nutritional guidelines that will dictate advertising decision on the children’s channel as well as on the qubo programming blocks airing on NBC, ION Television and Telemundo. click to read more...
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BBC America Secures Comedy 'Gavin & Stacey'
BBC America has acquired the rights to comedy series Gavin & Stacey and will begin airing the BAFTA winner this summer. click to read more...
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Animal Planet Bows Meerkat Documentary
Animal Planet will pay tribute to the late meerkat matriarch Flower, premiering a movie detailing its life before becoming the first lady on the network’s series, Meerkat Manor. click to read more...
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