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January 13, 2009

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NEWS

• Sling Founders, Other Execs Depart EchoStar
  Five senior Sling Media executives, including founder and CEO Blake Krikorian, have resigned their positions about one year after the company was acquired by EchoStar. more » » » 
• CEA Chief Opposes DTV Postponement
  Washington—The head of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is continuing to doubt the wisdom of the incoming Obama administration's plan to postpone the Feb. 17 transition to digital broadcasting. more » » » 

• Supreme Court Asks For Government Input On Cablevision RS-DVR Case
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the Department of Justice to submit a brief reviewing an appeal by entertainment companies of a lower court’s ruling that would allow Cablevision Systems to legally deploy a network-based DVR service. more » » » 
• Cisco To Take DOCSIS 3.0 Modems Over 300 Mbps
  Cisco Systems is developing a cable modem that will use Broadcom’s recently announced DOCSIS 3.0 silicon to bond together eight downstream channels – letting cable providers, theoretically, pump Internet content down to subscribers at more than 300 Mbps more » » » 
• Cox Adds Si TV in Arizona
  Sí TV said it has launched on Cox Communications in Arizona, starting in the Phoenix area on Dec. 19, and is headed toward statewide carriage on Cox by mid-2009. more » » » 

Blogs

• The Satellite Dish
  Scott Greczkowski, ,
  Everybody Loves The 922
  Way back in May when I first reported about the new Dish Network 922 (then called the 722s) I knew this was going to be an amazing receiver. Now that the receiver has been officially announced it look...
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• Reynolds' Rap
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  Flacco Flub? Not!
  Is anybody watching this game? Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco stepped out of the end zone for what should have been a safety midway through the fourth quarter. No comment from the CBS ...
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• BIT RATE
  Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
  Checking Out 3-D TV
  Las Vegas -- While the mood is a bit subdued at this year's CES, the industry's gadgeteers managed to hype a hot new tech: 3-D television. Sony's Howard Stringer featured 3-D in his keynote yesterd...
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• BIT RATE
  Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
  Hanks a Lot, Sir Howard
  Las Vegas -- Tom Hanks gave his sometime-employer Sony a not-so-gentle ribbing in his appearance during chairman and CEO Howard Stringer’s CES keynote address on Thursday. Hanks -- star of...
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NEWS

• Starz, Sony Extend Output Deal
  Starz Entertainment said Monday that it has agreed to a multi-year extension of its output pact agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment that gives the premium channel exclusive pay TV rights to all Sony Pictures theatrical releases well into the next decade. more » » » 
• Verizon, CBS Ink Retrans Pact
  Verizon and CBS signed long-term retransmission-consent and program-carriage agreements including on-demand access to hit shows such as CSI and Survivor for Verizon’s FiOS TV service and mobile rights to full episodes of shows including 60 Minutes for V CAST. more » » » 
• Outdoor Channel Buys Winnercom
  Outdoor Channel Holdings said it has acquired Winnercomm Inc., the independent producer of such shows as Under Wild Skies and owner of the Skycam and Cablecam systems, for undisclosed terms. more » » » 
• Charter Sues Verizon Over Video Patents
  Charter Communications has fired back at Verizon Communications, alleging in a federal lawsuit that the telco’s FiOS TV service infringes four patents related to video-on-demand service delivery. more » » » 
• IFC On VOD Opens Wide
  IFC hopes to raise the curtain on its fledgling IFC In Theaters pay-per-view video-on-demand service with the debut later this month of the critically-acclaimed, Steven Soderbergh-produced independent film Che two weeks after its theatrical debut. more » » » 

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