• Dish Network: No Room For Voom
• Diller, Malone Settle Differences
• Dish Wants Partner For Mobile Video Service
• HBO Squeezes Apple For Higher iTunes Pricing
• Outdoor Channel Clears Up DirecTV Carriage Confusion
• EchoStar To Pitch SlingModem At Cable Show
• Comcast-Cox ITV Venture Inks Test Deal With Itaas

• PBS Selects thePlatform For Online Programming 
• Motorola Packs In Edge-QAM Channels
• LOWDOWN ON THE UPFRONT: ‘SportsCenter’ Moment

• Penguins-Flyers Is Top Shelf For Versus  
• Spike TV Taps UFC Stars For Latest ‘Ultimate Fighter’ Iteration

Dish Network: No Room For Voom
In the midst of ongoing litigation, Dish Network has dropped 10 of the 15 Rainbow Media Voom HD networks and plans to dump the rest “as soon as we can,” officials said Tuesday. click to read more...
Back to top

Diller, Malone Settle Differences
Liberty Media and IAC InteractiveCorp have buried the hatchet, with Liberty agreeing to drop its appeal of a Delaware Chancery Court decision and agreeing to support the split of IAC into five separate companies. click to read more...
Back to top

Dish Wants Partner For Mobile Video Service
Dish Network is looking to find partners to potentially launch a mobile-video service with the 700-Megahertz wireless spectrum it purchased earlier this year for $712 million, officials said Tuesday. click to read more...
Back to top

HBO Squeezes Apple For Higher iTunes Pricing
Home Box Office Tuesday announced it will offer its top shows such as The Sopranos and Sex and The City via Apple’s iTunes online store–but at a higher price point than iTunes’ traditional $1.99 per episode fee. click to read more...
Back to top

Outdoor Channel Clears Up DirecTV Carriage Confusion
Outdoor Channel clarified its situation with DirecTV Tuesday, saying that it was always on the satellite provider’s sports tier and has not been moved, but was mistakenly also being offered as part of the company’s Total Choice package. click to read more...
Back to top

EchoStar To Pitch SlingModem At Cable Show
EchoStar will introduce its first product for the cable industry, the SlingModem, at The Cable Show in New Orleans next week. click to read more...
Back to top

Comcast-Cox ITV Venture Inks Test Deal With Itaas
TVWorks, a joint venture of Comcast and Cox Communications, signed an agreement with itaas, which will add the TVWorks tru2way and enhanced television standards-based platforms to the itaas “istart” program for interactive TV applications developers. click to read more...
Back to top

PBS Selects thePlatform For Online Programming 
PBS has chosen thePlatform, a Comcast unit, to power a new online video initiative that will significantly increase the amount of PBS video available on both pbs.org and local PBS station Web sites, officials said Tuesday. click to read more...
Back to top

Motorola Packs In Edge-QAM Channels
Motorola launched the Apex1000, a high-density universal edge QAM device that supports up to 48 channels in a one-rack-unit-high chassis. click to read more...
Back to top

LOWDOWN ON THE UPFRONT: ‘SportsCenter’ Moment
NEW YORK--ESPN’s presentation to advertisers, appropriately enough, was billed as SportsCenter “Upfront Edition,” as the big news coming out of the event was that the network’s flagship show will go live from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., beginning Aug. 11. click to read more...
Back to top