• Jones-Trinidad Fight Punches Out 500,000 Buys
• Comcast's Cohen To Testify on PEG Policy
• WGA Settles With Marvel, Lionsgate
• Sí TV Pitches Online Hispanics to Advertisers
• Grande Communications Chairman Exits
• Lifetime Networks Snags Disney Channel Exec
• Comcast Embraces New Nielsen VOD Measurement Service

• Former Time Warner Cable Exec to Lead Nielsen Digital Media
• Writers Guild Members Ratify Contract With CBS News

• TNT ‘Raises’ New Show

Jones-Trinidad Fight Punches Out 500,000 Buys
Veteran fighters Roy Jones Jr. and Felix Trinidad showed Saturday that they still have some cachet among boxing fans, drawing a surprising 500,000 pay-per-view buys for their light heavyweight fight at Madison Square Garden. click to read more...
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Comcast's Cohen To Testify on PEG Policy
Comcast executive vice president David Cohen is scheduled to testify Jan. 29 before a House subcommittee on the cable company's decision to require thousands of analog-only customers in Michigan to acquire digital set-top boxes to continue viewing public, educational and governmental channels. click to read more...
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WGA Settles With Marvel, Lionsgate
The Writers Guild of America has negotiated new contracts with two more independent producers: Lionsgate Entertainment and Marvel Studios. click to read more...
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Sí TV Pitches Online Hispanics to Advertisers
Sí TV, the English-language Latino-themed network, Thursday pitched Madison Avenue about the growing number of young Hispanics using the Web for entertainment, to make buying decisions and purchase products. click to read more...
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Grande Communications Chairman Exits
Less than a week after announcing that it has hired New York-based cable investment banker Waller Capital to explore its strategic options including a possible sale, Texas overbuilder Grande Communications Holdings said its chairman James Mansour has resigned. click to read more...
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Lifetime Networks Snags Disney Channel Exec
Lifetime Networks has named Scott Garner, one of the primary architects behind the Disney Channel ratings hits such as Hannah Montana, High School Musical and High School Musical 2, as its new Senior VP, Planning, Scheduling and Acquisitions. click to read more...
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Comcast Embraces New Nielsen VOD Measurement Service
Nielsen has commercially launched a new measurement service that aggregates and anonymously reports on video-on-demand usage based on real-time data from set-tops, with Comcast as its first customer, officials said Thursday. click to read more...
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Former Time Warner Cable Exec to Lead Nielsen Digital Media
Bruce Haymes, formerly Time Warner Cable’s corporate vice president of business affairs, has joined Nielsen to lead Nielsen Digital Media Manager, a new service that will enable companies to monitor, manage and profit from the distribution of traditional media content on the Internet. click to read more...
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Writers Guild Members Ratify Contract With CBS News
CBS News employees, who are members of the Writers Guilds of America, have overwhelmingly ratified their new contract, officials said Thursday. The vote was 98% yes. click to read more...
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