• Cable Rejects Low-Power TV Must Carry
• IPTV Vendor Entone Raises $14.5 Million
• USA Original Series Heat Up In July
• LG, Netflix Link Via Blu-Ray Player
• CN8 Sets Convention Teams
• NBC News to Provide 200 Hours of Convention Coverage
• House GOP Leader Slams Martin

• Cablevision Shares Soar
• Gabelli: I’ll Squire Dolan Around
• BigBand's Sales and Marketing Chief Departs
• Nielsen, MRI Team on Audience Targeting
• Live From Bristol, It’s ‘SportsCenter’

• Spike TV Picks Up Series To Die For

Cable Rejects Low-Power TV Must Carry
Cable operators are rejecting a proposal by Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin that would allow hundreds of local TV stations to demand cable carriage for the first time. click to read more...
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IPTV Vendor Entone Raises $14.5 Million
Entone, which sells IPTV gateways to telecommunications providers, has raised a second round of $14.5 million in venture-capital funding. click to read more...
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USA Original Series Heat Up In July
With its five original series clicking, USA Network easily won cable’s primetime ratings race in July. click to read more...
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LG, Netflix Link Via Blu-Ray Player
LG Electronics this fall plans to debut a Blu-ray DVD player that includes the ability to stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix, directly to subscribers’ TV. click to read more...
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CN8 Sets Convention Teams
CN8, The Comcast Network, will go to Denver and Minneapolis-St. Paul to provide nightly on-site coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. click to read more...
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NBC News to Provide 200 Hours of Convention Coverage
The networks of NBC News -- NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, MSNBC.com and NBC Mobile -- will present more than 200 total hours of live coverage of the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention, officials said Thursday. click to read more...
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House GOP Leader Slams Martin
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is accusing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin of engaging in “heavy-handed” regulation of the Internet by telling network owners how to manage traffic on their systems. click to read more...
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Cablevision Shares Soar
Let the speculation begin. Cablevision Systems stock soared more than 11% ($2.39 per share) to $23.64 each in early trading Thursday after stronger-than-expected second-quarter results and CEO James Dolan’s promise to investigate ways to “close the gap” between the market value of the cable giant and its actual value. click to read more...
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Gabelli: I’ll Squire Dolan Around
In the wake of Cablevision Systems CEO James Dolan’s pledge to listen to shareholders while gauging the company’s options in boosting its value, one major investor has offered his help. click to read more...
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BigBand's Sales and Marketing Chief Departs
BigBand Networks said Thursday that Jeffrey Lindholm, senior vice president of sales and marketing, has retired from the video-processing equipment company. click to read more...
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Nielsen, MRI Team on Audience Targeting
Nielsen Mobile and Mediamark Research & Intelligence will jointly launch Mobile-MRI, an integrated database of consumers’ mobile and offline media usage that will help mobile-media companies and advertisers better target audiences with their mobile campaigns. click to read more...
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Live From Bristol, It’s ‘SportsCenter’
Come Aug. 11, the 9 a.m. SportsCenter will be different. Not only will ESPN’s flagship show feature a new anchor team of Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott, but it will be telecast live, thus ending more than a dozen years of encore editions in the morning. Indeed, ESPN has been running a repeat wheel of its 1 a.m. (ET) show from 6 a.m.-noon since January 1996. click to read more...
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