Nat Geo Picks Schools For 'Big Cats' Cultural Exchange

U.S. Students Will Work With African Peers to 'Cause An Uproar'
By: mreynolds Sep 6 2012 - 7:26pm
U.S. Students Will Work With African Peers to 'Cause An Uproar'

Four public schools in New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Salt Lake City have been selected to participate in a unique cross-cultural initiative, National Geographic's Big Cats Sister School Program.

Beginning in fall 2012, the program will pair the U.S. schools with schools in Kenya, Tanzania and Botswana under the shared theme of big cat conservation.

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Sens. Ask Clyburn to Issue NPRM on Sports Blackout Rule

Follows Blumenthal Request that Wheeler Take Action if Confirmed
By: John Eggerton Jun 19 2013 - 10:44pm
Follows Blumenthal Request that Wheeler Take Action if Confirmed
 

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) aren't waiting around for a new FCC chair to push the agency to act on a longstanding petition to lift its sports blackout rule.

In a letter to acting FCC chair Mignon Clyburn, the senators said it was past time to act.

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Sports Summit: McManus Says Fox Sports 1 Not Altering CBS' Strategy

Chairman Leaves Door Open for Possible Future Partnerships between CBS Sports Net, Competitors
By: Andrea Morabito (Broadcasting & Cable) Jun 19 2013 - 4:35pm
Chairman Leaves Door Open for Possible Future Partnerships between CBS Sports Net, Competitors
 
New York -- CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus expects the launch of Fox Sports 1 in August to make a lot of noise, but he's not changing the strategy of his cable competitor CBS Sports Network in light of the crowding field, he told attendees at Wednesday's Sports Business and Technology Summit presented by B&C, Multichannel News and TV Technology.

Sports Summit: ESPN Chief Skipper Says World Cup Will 'Dominate'

Massive, State-of-Art Studio Simply How ESPN 'Rolls'
By: Michael Malone (Broadcasting & Cable) Jun 19 2013 - 6:29pm
Massive, State-of-Art Studio Simply How ESPN 'Rolls'

New York -- The World Cup is just under a year away, and John Skipper, president of ESPN, Inc., could barely contain his excitement for the global TV property.

Sports Summit: WNBA's Richie Views Rookie Trio As 'Game-Changers'

Hopes Griner, Delle Donna, Diggins Have Impact of Bird-Magic
By: Mike Reynolds Jun 19 2013 - 5:10pm
Hopes Griner, Delle Donna, Diggins Have Impact of Bird-Magic

 

WNBA president Laurel Richie hopes that the three top picks in this year’s draft will have a similar effect that a pair of then newcomers had on the NBA in the 1980s. .

Richie, speaking  at NewBay Media’s iinaugural  Sports Business and Technology Summit here on Wednesday afternoon, hopes  the arrival of Britney Griner, Elena Delle Donna and Skylar Diggins will be transformative for the distaff pro hoops league.

'Sopranos' Star James Gandolfini Dies, 51

Actor Was on Vacation in Italy
By: by R. Thomas Umstead Jun 19 2013 - 9:02pm
Actor Was on Vacation in Italy

Actor James Gandolfini, who won thee Emmy Awards for his role as Tony Soprano in HBO's hit series The Sopranos' died Wednesday, according to CNN.com

Gandolfini, 51, who portrayed iconic mob boss in HBO's breakthrough drama series from 1999 to 2007, died of an apparent heart attack while on holiday in Rome, according to CNN.

Cox TV Connect Reaches PCs and Macs

MSO Extends In-Home Streaming of 90-Plus Live TV Channels To Browsers
By: Jeff Baumgartner Jun 19 2013 - 8:41pm
MSO Extends In-Home Streaming of 90-Plus Live TV Channels To Browsers

Cox Communications has extended Cox TV Connect to Macs and PCs, the latest group of devices to gain access to an app that provides in-home streaming of more than 90 linear TV channels to connected devices that are within reach of the customer’s home network.

Cable, Wireless Cable Entrepreneur George Ring Dies

New Jersey Businessman Co-Founded Cross Country Cable In 1976
By: Kent Gibbons Jun 19 2013 - 3:09pm
New Jersey Businessman Co-Founded Cross Country Cable In 1976
George Ring, seen in 2010

George Ring, an entrepreneur in cable systems in the 1970s who later embraced wireless cable technology, died on June 10, according to published obituaries and tributes.

Born in 1943, he started a cable company, Cross Country Cable, in his native New Jersey in 1976 and built cable systems in that state as well as in Virginia, Illinois, Puerto Rico, Arizona, California and England, according to an obituary on the Star-Ledger newspaper’s Web site.

Sports Summit: Freer: If It's Must-Have, It Can't Cost Too Much

Fox Sports Media Group Copresident Argues Sports is Actually 'Undervalued'
By: Tim Baysinger Jun 19 2013 - 2:17pm
Fox Sports Media Group Copresident Argues Sports is Actually 'Undervalued'

New York -- Live sports has taken a lot of blame recently for driving up customers' cable bills, with rights deals being signed at record numbers. Randy Freer, copresident and COO, Fox Sports Media Group, isn't buying that notion.

"There's a reason they call it 'must-have' programming," Freer told B&C executive editor Dade Hayes during NewBay Media's Sports Business and Technology Summit on Wednesday. "If it's must have, it can't cost too much."

Sports Summit: MLB’s Bowman ‘Sanguine’ About Aggregated TV Future

OTTs, RSNs and MSOs ‘Will Figure This Out,' Baseball’s Digital Centerfielder Predicts
By: Dade Hayes, Broadcasting & Cable Jun 19 2013 - 2:02pm
OTTs, RSNs and MSOs ‘Will Figure This Out,' Baseball’s Digital Centerfielder Predicts
MLB's Bob Bowman

Bob Bowman, President & CEO of MLB Advanced Media, feels renewed optimism about the growing array of TV stakeholders finding a way to live in harmony – and in profit.

During a keynote discussion at the Sports Business and Technology Summit, presented by Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and TV Technology, he described a recent diplomatic/strategy meeting with a cable counterpart.

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