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January 8, 2009

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NEWS

• DirecTV, Comcast SportsNet In License-Fee Battle
  DirecTV and Comcast are involved in a license-fee dispute over two of the regional sports networks owned by the cable operator and could be headed to arbitration. more » » » 
• Waxman Ready To Pick Telecom Panel Chairman
  Washington -- Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are planning to meet Thursday to elect the chairmen of the panel's five subcommittees, chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) announced in a memo Tuesday. more » » » 

• Time Warner Impaired By $25 Billion
  Time Warner said Wednesday that it would incur a $25 billion non-cash impairment charge in the fourth quarter, mostly tied to franchise rights at its Time Warner Cable unit. more » » » 
• ReelzChannel Will Relocate To New Mexico
  In a move that should save up to $20 million a year in operating costs, ReelzChannel will move its Los Angeles-based production and business units from California to New Mexico, a state offering generous tax credits and other incentives to the basic cable network. more » » » 
• Illinois AG's Office Examining U-Verse’s PEG Programming
  Responding to complaints from public-access producers and city officials, the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is examining public access programming on AT&T's U-verse service to determine whether the delivery method somehow violates state law. more » » » 

Blogs

• BIT RATE
  Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
  VOD Outage at 30,000 Feet
  Personalized TV is a sometimes-flaky technology, as any hapless cable subscriber wrestling with a VOD menu can attest. Certain VOD technologies aren't even able to scale to handle a fully packed...
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• At Your Service
  Linda Haugsted, ,
  Cabler Demands Note from Man in Coma
  Is your name on YOUR cable account? You better make sure it is, because if your spouse it injured and in a coma, your cable company may lock you out of your account. &nb...
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• BIT RATE
  Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
  Slinging TV to iPhones
  Worshippers in the Cult of the iPhone soon will have another toy to play with -- a TV-mobility experience from EchoStar's Sling Media that no cable or telco TV provider matches today....
  more » » » 
  
• The Satellite Dish
  Scott Greczkowski, ,
  Leavng For Las Vegas
  Sure Christmas might have been two weeks ago, but for me Christmas starts on Thursday. What’s Thursday? It’s the opening of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas!&nbs...
  more » » » 
  

NEWS

• ShopNBC Reduces Workforce By 11%
  Home shopping channel ShopNBC said Wednesday that it has laid off about 11% of its salaried workforce in an effort to cut costs, effective immediately. more » » » 
• Broadcom Doubles ‘Wideband’ Bonds
  Las Vegas -- Broadcom is doubling the throughput of its DOCSIS 3.0 family of chips, providing the ability to bond eight channels together for downstream speeds of up to 400 Mbps in its second generation of “wideband” cable-modem silicon.   more » » » 
• Verizon Proffers Aggressive Pricing For DSL, Bundles
  Following on the heels of its announced HD DVR freebies for new subscribers, Verizon Communications Inc. is now offering an aggressive pricing offer for digital subscriber line buyers and triple-play bundles including DirecTV service. more » » » 
• Disney XD Unwraps On Friday The 13^th
  The Walt Disney Co. will launch its rechristened Toon Disney as Disney XD on Friday, Feb. 13 at midnight.
  The transition will premiere with a transfer from Disney Channel, the animated comedy Phineas and Ferb. more » » » 
• No Secret: ABC Family’s 'Secret Life' Scores Big With Nielsens
  The return of ABC Family’s acclaimed series The Secret Life of the American Teenager wasn’t a big secret. more » » » 

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