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08/28/2012
Weather Report 08/28/12
WeatherNation TV Inc. is offering its TV service to Gulf Coast TV stations and cable systems at no charge during Tropical Storm (perhaps turning into Hurricane) Isaac. WHNO-TV 20 and its parent company, LeSea Broadcasting, which recently signed an affiliation agreement with WeatherNation, has decided to accelerate the launch of WeatherNation for its New Orleans […]
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Premium Content
08/28/2012
Tribunelations
As expected, Cablevision lost Hartford Fox affil WTIC and WGN America at 12:01am, and there is still has no retrans deal in place with Tribune ( Cfax , 8/27 ). Cablevision complains that Tribune is illegally
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08/27/2012
Global Connections 08/27/12
India’s AJK Cable Networks deployed the Envivio Muse headend system for its new MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) multi-screen video service, dubbed Reena TV, and it claims to be the first cable operator in country to use a single headend to serve the full range of display devices, including set-top boxes, connected TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile […]
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08/27/2012
Courtroom 08/27/12
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., had good news and bad news for Verizon late Friday, ruling that it can continue to offer its FiOS customers video-on-demand service but it needs to pay ActiveVideo Networks in California $2.74 per month per subscriber for the ability to do so. The […]
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08/27/2012
Deals Of The Day 08/27/12
Rogers Media Inc. is buying all outstanding shares of Score Media Inc., and it will wholly own theScore Television Network and related TV assets. The deal doesn’t include Score’s digital media business, including theScore.com Web site and mobile apps. Immediately prior to the acquisition, Score Media’s digital assets will be spun out to its existing […]
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08/27/2012
People Watch 08/27/12
Late last week, in a letter to stockholders, customers, employees and friends, Tellabs chair Michael J. Birck announced he will retire from the company after next spring’s annual meeting due to a recent diagnosis of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML), a treatable but incurable disease for which he is in therapy…Vahid Manian is the new senior […]