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October 7, 2008

In this Issue
Market Decline Clips Cable Time Warner, LIN Continue Retrans Talks ‘Sanctuary’ Finds 2.7 Million Viewers Cartoon Network Record Ratings, It Is, For 'Star Wars' Series TBS Sees MLB's Division Series Audience Decline	Minority Group Backs Martin's Class A Plan Comcast Readies Targeted-Ad Test In Baltimore NBC Universal Fighting A La Carte Proposals At FCC Comcast, Verizon Agree To Cease-Fire On Patents Jury: Cox Did Not Infringe Verizon Patents

JUST THE FACTS

Women’s Professional Soccer will kick off its inaugural season in 2009 with a national game of the week on Fox Soccer Channel.

NEWS

• Market Decline Clips Cable
  Cable stocks were hit Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 369.88 points to 9955.50. more » » » 
• Time Warner, LIN Continue Retrans Talks
  Time Warner Cable and LIN TV Monday continued negotiations to try to reach a new retransmission-consent deal, as 15 TV stations remained dark on cable in 11 markets.   more » » » 

• ‘Sanctuary’ Finds 2.7 Million Viewers
  Sci Fi Channel said new original series Sanctuary drew 2.7 million total viewers and was the top primetime basic-cable entertainment program on Oct. 3 among adults ages 25-54. more » » » 
• Cartoon Network Record Ratings, It Is, For 'Star Wars' Series
  The force was certainly with Cartoon Network  as its Oct. 3 premiere of Star Wars: Clone Wars posted a network record series debut audience of 3.9 million viewers. more » » » 
• TBS Sees MLB's Division Series Audience Decline
   Through the first five days of its exclusive coverage of Major League Division Series, TBS's viewership was down some 20% from the same stage of the 2007 postseason.   more » » » 

Blogs

• TV Crush
  Mary McNamara, ,
  Dow Plummets; CNBC Goes Bonkers!
  Watching CNBC, a little live-blogging here: The Dow is plummeting, now hovering around 9765. Flanked by the crisis PR flack (Paul Verbinnen, probably) who helped Martha Stewart, Lehman Brot...
  more » » » 
  
• 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...
  more » » » 
  
• 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...
  more » » » 
  
• 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...
  more » » » 
  

NEWS

• Minority Group Backs Martin's Class A Plan
  Washington -- A group in support of increasing minority ownership of mass media properties is backing Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin's proposal to give mandatory cable carriage rights to more than 500 TV stations for the first time. more » » » 
• Comcast Readies Targeted-Ad Test In Baltimore
  Comcast in November will kick off a six-month limited trial of a targeted-ad system with 70,000 digital cable households in the Baltimore area. more » » » 
• NBC Universal Fighting A La Carte Proposals At FCC
  NBC Universal, a major cable TV programming supplier, is urging federal regulators to refrain from intervening in the "highly competitive" marketplace between program owners and pay-TV distributors.
  more » » » 
• Comcast, Verizon Agree To Cease-Fire On Patents
  Comcast and Verizon Communications have inked a deal under which the two companies have agreed to not sue each other over patent claims for a period of five years, according to company sources and published reports. more » » » 
• Jury: Cox Did Not Infringe Verizon Patents
  Cox Communications did not infringe six of Verizon Communications’ patents related to providing Internet phone service, a federal jury decided on Monday. more » » » 

Through the Wire

• ‘Baby Mama’ PPV Purchasers Receive ’30 Rock’ Preview
  Saturday Night Live alum Tina Fey will trade in her Sarah Palin impersonation to appear on pay-per-view and video on demand as NBC Universal (www.nbcuni.com) premieres her theatrical comedy film Baby Mama on cable and satellite systems Oct. 8. more » » » 

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