NEWS
- Cover Story: Five Ways to Prepare When Disaster Strikes
The reoccurrence of hurricanes, firestorms, earthquakes, tornados and ice storms is reaffirming the need of many operators to forge specific strategies for coping with the challenges in order to mitigate business losses against these natural disasters. more » » »
- Zaslav Navigates The Shoals
Concluding his second year as head of Discovery Communications, David Zaslav is bullish about the company’s near-term prospects, despite facing one of the worst economic climates in decades. Two months after taking the company public, Zaslav talked with Multichannel News editor in chief Mark Robichaux and programming editor R. Thomas Umstead about the company’s business prospects in 2009. more » » »
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- Martin’s Cable Plan Loses Steam
Washington— Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin is coming under intense pressure to abandon his dream of bringing cable networks and TV stations under tighter federal regulatory control. more » » »
- Young Is Latest Retrans Drop
Dish Network is embroiled in yet another retransmission-consent dispute with a broadcaster, this one resulting in the satellite provider dropping 10 Young Broadcasting stations, including San Francisco's KRON-TV, from its program lineup. more » » »
- Comcast Tech To The Rescue
Six Silver Spring, Md., residents were able to escape their burning apartment building a week ago Saturday night, in part due to the assistance of a Comcast technician who stopped to render aid and was assisted by other passers-by. more » » »
Blogs
- BIT RATE
Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
FiOS Digital Voice's Preliminary Price List
Verizon has published rates and charges for the initial rollout of FiOS Digital Voice, though the company may change its pricing for the wider launch in 2009. Here's the list of fees, as of Septe...
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- Reynolds' Rap
Mike Reynolds, ,
Greatest Game Ever Paid
This was when baseball and boxing topped the sports world. Prior to the establishment of our Sunday afternoon rituals on couch and tavern. Long before the league generated millions and then billions i...
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- BIT RATE
Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
FiOS TV: Data Points
Verizon has deployed somewhere around 4.8 million FiOS TV set-top boxes so far, according to my back-of-the-envelope calculations. Benigno Gonzalez, executive director of FiOS products, said the ...
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- The Satellite Dish
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Noggin, ABBA and Slacker
It is no surprise that exactly at 7PM ET last night (4PM PT) that Dish Network switched off all of the local stations owned by Young Broadcasting. This is one that needs to be fought out and hop...
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NEWS
- Sundance Embraces Brand Refresh
Sundance Channel is the latest network to refresh its branding, creating interstitials that will communicate its role as a broader cultural destination. more » » »
- Economy Is Taking A Pinch Out Of Cable, Too
New York -- A trio of cable operators descended on the Grand Hyatt hotel here this week for the three-day UBS Media and Communications conference, attempting in part to ease investor fears about the economy’s effect on the industry. more » » »
- UBS Mood Subdued, But Not Attendance
The atmosphere (unsurprisingly) was downbeat at the UBS Media and Communications conference this week in New York. Several of the CEOs who presented spent a good amount of their time just trying to calm investor fears about the worsening economy. more » » »
- Michigan Communities Seek PEG-Channel Answers
Attorneys for four Michigan communities have asked the Federal Communications Commission for answers to seven questions requested by a federal judge there to help resolve a suit over Comcast’s relocation of public, educational and government channels. more » » »
- White House Gets HD C-SPAN Close-Up
The story goes that First Lady Laura Bush was so taken with C-SPAN’s original HD series, The Capitol, she readily agreed to have the public-affairs channel’s cameras in for an in-depth portrait of the White House. more » » »
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