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November 13, 2008

NEWS

• LCD Price Fixing Scheme To Cost Manufacturers $585 Million
  Washington—Three big electronics manufacturers—LG Display Co. Ltd., Sharp Corp. and Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd.—are going to pay $585 million in criminal fines for engaging in price fixing in the sale of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. more » » » 
• Hendricks Beefs Up Discovery Stake
  Discovery Communications founder and chairman John Hendricks bought 1 million shares of company stock in three separate transactions earlier this week, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday. more » » » 

• Transpera Raises $8.25 Million Second Round
  Mobile video services startup Transpera announced it has closed second-round financing of $8.25 million and hired former Brightcove executive Brian Monnin as chief product officer. more » » » 
• NCTA To Martin: Abort New Rate Probe
  Washington—Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin came under attack Wednesday from a cable industry upset about his latest effort to put alleged cable rate hikes under a microscope. more » » » 
• Verizon Buys More BigBand Gear For FiOS TV
  Verizon has signed a new multiyear agreement with BigBand Networks, which provides video equipment for the telco's FiOS TV service. more » » » 

Blogs

• MCN Guest Blogger
  MCN Guest, ,
  Bornstein's NFL Network Pitch
  By Steve Bornstein The Jets-Patriots rivalry gets more intriguing each year. This week, the rivalry has taken a new twist with first-place in the AFC East at stake and Brett Favre leading the Jets ...
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• BIT RATE
  Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
  The Radical Cable-Cutting A La Carte Fringe
  Some of the feedback I've heard on our cover story last week about "cable cutters" -- people who've cancelled cable TV, satisfied with what they're able to procure online and ove...
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• The Satellite Dish
  Scott Greczkowski, ,
  What Can Dish Do?
  So yesterday I have my feelings on Dish Networks 3rd quarter earnings call and also gave my opinion on why thought Charlie Ergen’s claims that piracy was one of the big causes for the poor numbe...
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• The Satellite Dish
  Scott Greczkowski, ,
  Say What?
  Just as I predicted today Dish Network announced their 3rd quarter earnings results and those results were not pretty. Dish Networks 3rd quarter profits slid 54 percent and for the second consec...
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NEWS

• Joost Finally Announces CTO Hiring
  Internet TV startup Joost officially announced Wednesday that it has hired former CableLabs chief scientist Jason Gaedtke as its chief technology officer, more than seven months after he took the job. more » » » 
• HDTV Sets Now In More Than One-Third of U.S. Homes: Survey
  New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group found that 34% of U.S. households have at least one HDTV set, about double the percentage of households that had such TVs two years ago.  more » » » 
• Conyers Shakes Up Judiciary Committee
  Washington—House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) is shaking up a subcommittee that would have been an important stop in the cable industry's effort next year to get Congress to focus on whether TV stations are demanding too much cash from cable operators as a condition of carriage. more » » » 
• IBM to Install Broadband Over Power Line For 13 Rural Utilities
  IBM has signed a contract with International Broadband Electric Communications to deploy broadband-over-power-line networks with 13 rural electric utilities in areas that the two companies say are underserved by cable and telco high-speed Internet services. more » » » 
• Sezmi Sizes Up Seattle With TV Trial
  Sezmi, a startup developing a cable-like service that delivers multichannel video over digital TV airwaves and the Internet, has completed a technical trial of its system with three broadcast partners in Seattle. more » » » 

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