Don't expect any sympathy from cable ops, who are facing advertising slowdowns of their own, but TVB has downwardly revised its '09 forecast covering local broadcast TV's spot market–only the 2nd time in history it has done so. TVB's outlook for local spots fell to -4% to -8% from 2% to -1%, and for national spots to -11.5% to -15.5% from -2% to -5%. — Motorola and BlackArrow have devised a VOD server that's SCTE 130 compliant and allows for dynamic insertion of targeted ads at any point in on demand content.

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Paramount Shareholder Sues Over Skydance Merger

A Paramount shareholder filed a lawsuit in Delaware’s Court of Chancery on Wednesday seeking to block the merger agreement with Skydance Media . The lawsuit from shareholder Scott Baker alleges that

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