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January 9, 2009

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NEWS

• Obama: Delay DTV Transition
  Washington—President-elect Barack Obama wants to delay the Feb. 17 transition to digital broadcasting, claiming poor, rural and elderly residents are unprepared for the cutoff of analog TV signals so soon after he takes office on Jan. 20. more » » » 
• CES 2009: Ergen Unveils Dish’s ‘SlingLoaded’ Devices
  Las Vegas—Charlie Ergen, chief of sister companies Dish Network and EchoStar, touted his new “SlingLoaded” products and a new $9.99 package of more than 150 channels—for new subscribers—Thursday at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. more » » » 

• Consumers Union: Delay DTV Transition
  Washington -- A leading consumer organization is calling on Congress to consider delaying the Feb. 17 digital TV transition, alleging that a key converter box coupon program subsidized by the federal government has run out of money and could leave millions of consumers without broadcast TV. more » » » 
• CES 2009: Comcast, Panasonic Team On Single-Remote Spec
  Las Vegas—Panasonic and Comcast said they’ll work together to bring universal-remote technology to the cable operator’s digital cable set-top box, allowing tru2way-enabled set-tops to interact with HDTVs and other devices. more » » » 
• Debt Offering Boosts Cablevision Stock
  Cablevision stock soared Thursday after a subsidiary announced plans for a debt offering that will remove much of the refinancing pressure on the cable company. more » » » 

Blogs

• 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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• Reynolds' Rap
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  BS Championship Game
  No the C in the acronym isn’t missing. Tim Tebow and Dominique Franks have been jawing about the merits of SEC and Big 12 defenses and quarterback ratings. All that BS will finally end Jan...
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• My Turn
  Kent Gibbons, Executive Editor, Multichannel News
  ‘Atlantis’ Hits the Mark
  Stargate Atlantis’s next episode, Friday night at 9, is its 100th and the last in the series. Based on the fourth and this fifth and final season, it’s a shame it didn’t get the...
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• BIT RATE
  Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News
  Dish Gets Slung
  Las Vegas -- Dish Network has finally done what everyone expected it would do when Charlie Ergen bought the Slingbox guys in September 2007: It's rolled out a DVR that includes the Sling place-shift...
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NEWS

• CES 2009: Sony’s Stringer Gives Peek At 3-D Entertainment
  Las Vegas—Sony chairman and CEO Howard Stringer showed off big-screen 3-D video as part of his CES keynote address Thursday, and said the technology is “closer than you think” to becoming a standard feature of the entertainment industry. more » » » 
• CES 2009: Avis Budget To Offer AT&T CruiseCast In Rentals
  Las Vegas—Avis Budget Group and RaySat Broadcasting announced a deal that will provide Avis and Budget Rent A Car customers with the option of purchasing AT&T CruiseCast satellite TV service in their rental car. more » » » 
• CES 2009: CEA Sees Industry Sales Down 0.6% In 2009
  Las Vegas—Consumer Electronics Association president and CEO Gary Shapiro said the industry group is projecting an overall drop in sales of 0.6% for 2009 compared with last year. more » » » 
• ESPN Bowls Over Last Year’s Pigskin Ratings
  ESPN and ESPN2 telecasts of 23 college football games in the past two weeks garnered an average of 2.8 million homes and a 2.5 rating, up 8% from last year’s bowl bonanza, network officials said Thursday. more » » » 
• TCA '09: Sundance Channel Books 'Eco Trip'
  Los Angeles—Sundance Channel will bolster its "green" programming block with new series and documentaries debuting this spring, including a show tracking popular products such as a cotton T-shirt from raw components to its finished product. more » » » 

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