Word is that Cox is firmly on board an HDTV marketing push between Panasonic Consumer Electronics and MSOs; the agreement will be detailed tomorrow in NY by CTAM. Adelphia also may be in the coalition; no definitive word on Comcast. The arrangement is similar to a CTAM-brokered deal between MSOs and Samsung staged around "March Madness," which had 8 MSOs and was the 1st time cable joined with a manufacturer on such a national effort. That campaign involved taggable spots and traditional media ads, HD info at CTAM’s onlycablecan.com site, a sweepstakes and $100 discounts on HDTV service via cable.

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Today is the deadline to submit petitions to deny the FCC ’s order for Disney ’s eight ABC stations to file early license renewals. The docket is at nearly 56,000 total filings, a likely result of the

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