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October 6, 2008

In this Issue
Football Fans Left in Dark as Time Warner-LIN Dispute Continues CAB Pegs Cable’s Upfront At $7.65 Billion Targeted-Ad Startup BlackArrow Raises $20 Million AT&T Dishes Out Bad News CTAM Readies For Boston Summit	Ivy League School Goes IPTV Macrovision Faces A Tough Sell TV For Guide Network A&E Rallies With Some 5,000 ‘Delegates’ At Brooklyn Recovery Event WiMax Pushes Out Of The Nest In Baltimore Cover Story: 9 Things You Need To Know About the Market Meltdown

Just the Facts

The Oct. 2 VP debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden attracted just under 70 million viewers, surpassing Sept. 26's presidential debate.

News

• Football Fans Left in Dark as Time Warner-LIN Dispute Continues
  The retransmission-consent standoff between Time Warner Cable and LIN TV left the cable operator’s football fans in Green Bay, Wis., Buffalo, N.Y., and Indianapolis without their games on cable Sunday. more » » » 
• CAB Pegs Cable’s Upfront At $7.65 Billion
  The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau has estimated that ad-supported cable networks tallied some $7.65 million in upfront revenues for the 2008-09 season. more » » » 

• Targeted-Ad Startup BlackArrow Raises $20 Million
  BlackArrow has raised an additional $20 million to further product development, expand distribution platform support and increase worldwide sales and marketing efforts. more » » » 
• AT&T Dishes Out Bad News
  Wall Street’s outlook for Dish Network became even gloomier last week on the news that Charlie Ergen’s satellite company had lost its reselling deal with AT&T, with rival DirecTV taking that prize. more » » » 
• CTAM Readies For Boston Summit
  As its annual national convention approaches, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing expects attendees will come away from this year’s gathering feeling they’ve learned much. more » » » 

Blogs

• Reynolds' Rap
  Mike Reynolds, ,
  100 Is The Loneliest Number
  One hundred is a nice round number. An aspirational one. Probably just not the favorite of Chicago Cub fans or executives at Fox Sports at the moment. The Los Angeles Dodgers topped the Cub...
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• TV Crush
  Mary McNamara, ,
  The Story The MSM Won't Report: Obama is Irish!
  The "Obama is a Muslim" fallacy exploded on Twitter this morning. The hysteria was reinvigorated when someone posted a twitpic of what appeared to be a sleazy gossip magazine cover sto...
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• The Satellite Dish
  Scott Greczkowski, ,
  Another Court Loss for Echostar
  The folks at Echostar Dish Network just can’t catch a break in the court system this year. Earlier this week Echostar lost again in court, this time they were defeated by the folks at the Electr...
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• TV Crush
  Mary McNamara, ,
  We are going over the edge
  As we're glued to the presidential debates and awaiting the congressional vote on the bailout (coming up in just moments and airing live on MSNBC and Fox right now) NYT's Paul Krugman warns this mor...
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News

• Ivy League School Goes IPTV
  Starting next year, students at Brown University in Providence, R.I., will experience campus life without conventional broadcast and cable TV, when the campus shuts down its cable plant. Instead, the students will rely solely on Internet-protocol television to get their network fixes. more » » » 
• Macrovision Faces A Tough Sell TV For Guide Network
  Macrovision has officially put the TV Guide Network and smaller TVG Network on the block, about five months after buying parent firm Gemstar-TV Guide and in the teeth of a financial-market meltdown that seems likely to depress the sale price, according to analysts. more » » » 
• A&E Rallies With Some 5,000 ‘Delegates’ At Brooklyn Recovery Event
  National Recovery Month ended with September, but A&E Network and some of its cable affiliates, incluging Comcast, are keeping the effort alive. more » » » 
• WiMax Pushes Out Of The Nest In Baltimore
  In the commercial U.S. debut of a technology central to the wireless strategies of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, Sprint Nextel last week launched WiMax broadband wireless service in its first market, Baltimore. more » » » 
• Cover Story: 9 Things You Need To Know About the Market Meltdown
  The recent gyrations in the stock market have been the country’s obsession over the past few weeks. Where does the cable industry stand?  Interviews with operators, programmers, advertisers and investors — who’ve been along for the ride, like everyone else — yield answers to some of the most pressing questions.   more » » » 

Through the Wire

• Through the Wire
  Jewelry TV Turns to HD Tough economic times can make consumers hunker down and even cut back on the essentials of life. Like buying fine jewelry. A September survey of affluent households released last week, by American Express Publishing and the Harrison Group, found only 4% planned to increase spending this year on jewelry, while 27% planned to cut back (by an average of 59%), Nationaljeweler... more » » » 

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