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- August 31
- August 30
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- Fox Blocking Kickoff, Says Mediacom
- SeaChange Lays Off 30
- WWE Suspends 10 Wrestlers
- ESPN Shuns Original Series
- NBC Will Stream Conan
- Nanotechnology: IBM Looks To Put YouTube In Your Pocket
- Station Advertising: Katz Names Millennium Sales GM
- Starz Aligns with Motorola for HD Compression
- CMT Buys New Cheerleader Show
- Starz Picks Motorola for HD Encoding
- Gimme a C! CMT Greenlights High School Cheerleader
- OpenTV CEO Quits
- August 29
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- DirecTV Debuts Local HD in Minn. Market
- Comcast to Develop TiVo Code for SA Boxes
- Cablevision Offers Metro B2B Video Distribution
- Cuban Joins ‘Dancing with the Stars’
- Tennis Channel Serves Up Agassi Doc
- ESPN and NFL to Launch "Chalk Talk" Luncheon Series
- Versus Gets Rugby World Cup
- Prime Time Ratings: CBS Wins With Big Brother, Power of 10
- MTV Greenlights High School Journo Series The Paper
- News Corp., NBCU Say Hello to Hulu
- Verizon Wireless Plugs College Pigskin Lineup
- Cartoon Net Names Social Responsibility Chief
- Kids' WB! Adds Four Series to Fall Line-Up
- MSNBC Snags Conde Nast Content
- August 28
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- Comcast Ready for Some Football
- Martin Backing TAC In Comcast Dispute
- Ricochet Snags NBC Reality Executive
- EVENING NEWS RATINGS: World News Edges Out Nightly News
- Maya Angelou Keynotes at WICT
- Verizon Offers 'Lifetime' DSL Price Plan
- Camaro ‘Rides’ To Product-Placement Win
- NBC U Buys International Hallmark Channels
- August 27
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- Discovery Ups Two Operations Executives
- CBS News Translator Killed in Iraq
- NAB Takes Further Aim At XM/Sirius
- Satellite TV Firms Grow In New Orleans
- Suddenlink Expands Phone Footprint
- Sony to Debut CableCARD-Ready PC
- Nielsen Shutters Standalone Hispanic Ratings Service
- Turner Names VP of Media Currency
- Verizon Takes FiOS TV to 15 New York Communities
- South Park Creators Ink Revenue-Sharing Deal
- Ion Cuts the Fat
- Nick Hires SVP of Development, Programming
- Nick Hires SVP of Development, Programming
- Tremblay Named VP of Ad Sales for Fox Reality
- ANALYSIS: Why CBS Won’t Cry Over Kid Nation
- AFTRA Investigates CBS' Kid Nation
- NBC Hill Correspondent Reid Jumps to CBS
- Fox Looks for The Next Great American Band
- Nielsen Folds Hispanic Ratings into National Sample
- Reelz Drills Into 'Awards Season’
- August 26
- August 25
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- Stations Plug Syndication Newbies
- Why So Many Smiles?
- TWC Rolls Out ESPNU
- Ex Comcast Exec Burch Exits Virgin Media
- Massaging The Buy
- Metacafe Fuels Up With $30M
- CableLabs Reaches Accord on IP Video
- Why CBS Won't Cry Over 'Kid Nation'
- King of the Hills
- CMT Puts Pedal to the Metal for 'Dale’ Flick
- Fates & Fortunes
- Lebow Ponders Web 3.0 for IB
- BC Beat
- Breaking Tradition
- August 24
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- Big Ten Network Fails to Land Comcast Distribution Deal
- Sneaky Blog Tactics Allegedly Used by Comcast PR Agency
- SCTE Approves Revised Emergency-Alert Standard
- BBC America Streams Hollyoaks
- American Gladiators Back for More on NBC
- Fox Streaming K-Ville, Prison Break
- NBC, Houseparty.com Promote Friday Night Lights with 1,000-Party Bash
- Hearst to Buy Up Hearst-Argyle Television Shares
- August 23
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- Questions Surround Deloitte Rigas Suit
- Minority Groups Rip FCC Chairman Kevin Martin
- CableLabs Reaches Deal to Let Devices Run IP Video
- Fox Cancels Anchorwoman
- Nielsen TV Households See 1.3% Increase
- Weather Channel Cuts Home Depot Sponsorship Deal
- WICT Books Leadership Forum at Virginia Vineyard
- Cable Animators Win Emmy Awards
- FCC Chairman Martin Circulating Dual-Carriage Order
- MyNetworkTV Adds Fall Shows
- The Weather Channel, Home Depot Form Online Partnership
- CBS: Carey Making The Price Is Right Debut Oct. 15
- ABC’s This Week Scores with Democratic Candidates
- Season-Long 25 th -Anniversary Celebration for Wheel of Fortune
- Olbermann: NBC Countdown a ‘One-Shot Deal’
- GSN Announces High Stakes Poker Premiere
- August 22
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- Martin: A la Carte Benefits Diversity
- Spike TV Hunts for Monster Sharks
- Next FCC meeting: Sept. 11
- Travel Channel Names Leadership Team
- Sundance Shoots ‘Architecture School’
- IFC Cuts Land Rover Product Placement Deal
- Emmy Awards Announce Presenters
- KMBC KC Makes High-Def Jump
- Promotions at NBC Universal Stations
- 'Merv' Episode Boosts Seinfeld
- IBM Survey: PC TV Gains on Traditional Tube
- August 21
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- Cox Gears Up HD Boost With Switched Digital Video
- History Channel Promotes Maday
- Video-Sharing Site Metacafe Raises $30M
- MTVN to Fold Urge Music Site; Teams Up with Rhapsody
- Verizon Wins Oregon Franchise
- Brown To Assume Africa Channel Distribution Duties
- DirecTV to Debut Disney Channel HD
- MTVN to Fold Urge, Launch New Music Service with RealNetworks, Verizon
- Lifetime Names Bibb, Goldstein Co-Chief Marketing Officers
- Tribune Shareholders Approve Buyout
- Ion Grabs Two Stations
- ESPN Buys Rugby Site Scrum.com
- BBC Names U.S.-Based Newscast Team
- HD-DVD Gets Boost from Paramount, DreamWorks
- Sidus To Support ImaginAsian TV
- August 20
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- Original TV Flicks Get VOD Premieres
- Religious and Faith-Based Programming Guide
- Cable Trivia Buffs Wanted
- FiOS Internet Hits Brooklyn
- GSN Recruits Primack for Chicago Sales Post
- A&E Names Lonker To Programming Post
- FCC Sets Spectrum Auction Date
- Cartoon Adopts Nutrition Guidelines
- CBS Pushes Letterman, Ferguson to Go with Verizon
- ABC Cuts More Jobs in Washington
- WSOC Rolls Out Panasonic P2 HD Cameras
- The CW Adds Skunk Fu! to Kids’ WB! Block
- A&E Hires Lonker as VP, Nonfiction and Alternative Programming
- ABC Family Picks Up Samurai Girl Pilot
- 'High School Musical 2' Makes Cable History
- Insight Voice and Data Drive Q2 Growth
- Comcast Raises $3B in Bond Market
- PBS NewsHour Producer Callan Dies at 57
- Lauren Jones: Anchorwoman or TV News Travesty?
- August 19
- August 18
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- High School Musical 2 Most-Viewed Cable Telecast Ever
- Joe Earley Upped at Fox
- Fates & Fortunes
- Volume Control
- Tech Emmys: Putting Up a Bigger Tent
- Deals
- Rod Perth Vacates Berth As ReelzChannel President
- N.C. Towns Opts to Buy System
- A Rep Who Swings For the Fences
- Remembering Merv
- Sports & Scandal
- Sony Launches Recycling Plan for Old TVs
- Waving a VOD Banner
- Not-So-Big Ten Network Launch
- John, Tim Rigas Report to Serve Prison Sentences
- Brave New World
- Graphic Consolidation
- Charter Adds International Calls
- August 17
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- PTC Roasts Comedy Central
- Creditors Finally Get Adelphia Money
- Judge Bars DirecTV From Running Anti-Cable Ads
- CBS Launches Dedicated Big Brother 8 Channel on Verizon Mobile-TV Service
- Karlin Strikes HBO Development Deal
- Comedy Central’s Daily Show Reports from Iraq … Really
- Disney Channel Eyes Big Ratings for ‘HSM2’
- August 16
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- Sprint Eyes $2.5B From WiMax in 2010
- Sony Launches Recycling Program for Old TVs
- Fox Sports Taps Idol’s Seacrest for Super Bowl
- Lifetime: Adults Aren’t Convinced Death of Princess Diana Was an Accident
- CSG Closes Prairie Deal
- CCTA’s Sinsheimer Joins Law Firm
- TV Pioneer Chet Collier Dies
- Fox Interactive to Run Affiliate Sites
- Tori & Dean: Inn Love Season-Two Premiere Basks in Ratings Glow
- DirecTV Offers Passions Fans Live, Uncensored Chats with Cast
- Broadband Additions Slow Down in Second Quarter
- Hearst-Argyle Goes Back to School
- August 15
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- DeGeneres Hosts TBS Variety Special
- Hamm joins Starz Media as Executive Vice President, Creative Development
- Allen Mulls Charter’s Future
- IBM Wins NTIA Contract
- EchoStar Launches Football Ad Campaign
- Logo Builds Online LGBT Presence
- Fox Gets Nothing But The Truth
- FX And Myspace To Feature Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia Sneak Preview
- Miss America Loves TLC Shift
- DirecTV, WOW! Top J.D. Power Study
- Verizon Expands FiOS TV Footprint
- DirecTV Strikes Broadband Powerline Deal with Current
- ASCAP, BMI Roll Out RapidCue
- August 14
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- Yeah Boyeee!
- NBC Expanding Lucrative Today
- Municipalities Weigh Former Adelphia System Buy
- Regis and Kelly Announces Anniversary Celebration
- Ricki Lake to Explore Matters of Life & Dating on Lifetime
- Perth Resigns from ReelzChannel
- Disney Channel Tops Prime for Fifth Week
- HBO Cancels John From Cincinnati
- Evening News Ratings: World News Takes The Week
- Joe Mantegna Joins Criminal Minds, Set To Debut In Series' Fifth Episode
- New York TV Festival To Showcase 28 Pilots
- Teletrax To Monitor AP Video
- Teletrax Keeps Global Eye on AP
- August 13
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- Worldwide Biggies Staffs Up
- Nick to Split Noggin and The N
- Current TV Debuts Music-Blog Content
- Comedy Central Creates ‘Messy’ Pro-Social Campaign
- Comedy Central Creates ‘Messy’ Pro-Social Campaign
- Vignola Keys Research For Comcast Nets
- Ridge Named Magid TV Prez
- Vignola to Head Up Research at Comcast Entertainment
- Fox Takes Users Inside The Huddle
- COVER STORY: Networks Face Grim Cost of War
- AVP Adds Winter Heat
- Today Names Fourth Hour Hosts
- Cisco, TI Bond on Upstream Channels
- Networks Face Grim Cost of War
- Pence Wants To Kill Fairness Doctrine
- 'Today' Names Fourth Hour Hosts
- August 12
- August 11
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- TNA, Spike Close to a Deal
- Out-Tubing YouTube
- Volume Control
- Not A Hot Cable Summer for All
- DirecTV Plans 70 HD Nets
- Better Than OK
- Fates & Fortunes
- Gearing Up Greener Goods
- TV Fans Wield Their Online Power
- Nets Rally for Positive Cause and Effect
- Listening to the Kids
- TMG: Dish's Net Drops Forced Bankruptcy Filing
- High Times for a TV Contrarian
- Networks Get With The Eco-Program
- In News, Money Talks
- BC Beat
- Now, The Anchor Teaches Grammer
- Comcast Seeks Rate Relief
- The Mean Green Marketing Machine
- Kid You Not: Noggin, The N to Split Up
- Where to be and what to watch…
- August 10
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- Fox Soccer Channel Serves Up Studio Fare
- Journalism Educators Bar C-SPAN Cameras
- Oxygen In NBCU's Air?
- Ergen Downplays DirecTV’s 100 HD Channels
- Federal Court Rules Daisy Duke Deceptive
- Pokemon Strikes Again: FCC Fines Station
- Nielsen Closes on Telephia Deal
- LIN TV Stock Jumps Friday
- Gannett Services Mobile Phones with Free Local News Sites
- Nielsen Finalizes Telephia Purchase
- SCTE Names VP of Membership Services
- August 9
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- Pence Continues To Push Doctrine-Blocking Bill
- Comcast Offers Early Look at Fancast.com
- DirecTV Adds 128,000 Net Subs in Q2
- RCN to Market ‘Off-Net’ Internet-Phone Service
- HBO Picks Motorola For HD Encoding
- Cablevision Launches MavTV
- Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Barring DirecTV HDTV Commercials
- Scripps Cuts Comcast Cariage Deal
- Roberts Returning to Good Morning America
- DirecTV to Carey On for Three More Years
- Moody’s Lowers Virgin Media Outlook to Negative
- MTV’s Real World Going Hollywood, Green
- HBO Goes Moto for High-Def Compression
- Intelsat Sees Q2 Revenue Bump
- Study: Kids Drawn to McDonald’s Wrappers
- August 8
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- Sprint CEO: Rollout of Pivot on Cable Systems a ‘Disappointment’
- DBS Seeks State Tax Help From Congress
- ABC, NBC Make Debate Footage Available
- Hallmark to Launch HD Channel
- DirecTV Adds Telefutura to Texas Lineup
- PTC Names ‘Best,’ ‘Worst’ Advertisers
- Scripps Buys User-Generated Site Incando
- Liberty Capital to Split Into Two Separate Tracking Stocks
- Mediacom, Insight Adopt Online Version of New Gemstar-TV Guide Product
- TNT to Keep Saving Grace
- Robert Ell Joins ReelzChannel
- Mediacom, Insight Launch TV Guide Online Service
- Photos Submissions
- FiOS TV May Hurt DBS More Than Cable
- Karmazin: I’d Hire Imus Again
- August 7
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- NAB on Sirius-XM a la Carte Proposal: Thumbs Down
- Qwest Pushes for Franchise in Colorado
- NBC Planning Over 3,600 Hours of Olympics Coverage
- Univision Proposes Spanish-Language Presidential Forums
- TMG Blames EchoStar for Chapter 11 Filing
- The Media Group Files Chapter 11
- Virgin Will Wait for Markets to Settle
- Copper Thieves Spark Time Warner Outages
- Steve Case’s Lime to Be Squeezed Into Lifestyle Portal
- Postman Pat Joins Qubo Lineup
- Study: Syndication Revenue Growing Internationally, from Cable
- NDS Buys Internet-Video Startup for $11.3M
- WICT Names LEA Winners
- August 6
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- FCC Releases Final DTV Channel Assignments
- FCC Requires Cable VoIP to Pay Fees
- FCC Requires Cable VoIP to Pay Fees
- ABC News Employs Citizen Producers for iCaught
- TV Land Names VP of Programming
- AT&T Takes On Cox in Oklahoma City
- TBS Hot Corner to Debut on MLB.com
- Nike Interactive Ad Campaign Runs on Dish
- Nick’s Drake & Josh: Really Big Shrimp Sets Audience Record
- Telenet's Cash Flow Doubles in First Half
- Gemstar-TV Guide Appoints VP of National Sales for TV Guide Online
- Nesto Joins CNBC as General-Assignment Reporter
- FiOS TV Expands Long Island Availability
- Who’s the Boss? Boosts ION Television’s Ratings
- NBC Extends Carson Daly
- TBS Names Top HR Officer
- Fremantle Launches Comedy Site
- BCC America's Gregory Joins TV Land
- GMA's Robin Roberts Thanks Viewers for Support
- Are Reporters Safe in the Skies?
- Credit Crunch Slows Media Deals
- Are Reporters Safe in the Skies?
- The Hills Creator DiVello Leaves MTV to Start Production Company
- Animal Planet Focuses On The Critters
- August 5
- August 4
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- FCCer Sees a 'Tsunami’
- At Comic-Con, Geeks Wield Power
- Taming the Broadband Beast
- All Eyes On Twin Cities TV
- Must-Buy Repeal Lacks FCC Support
- 'Meerkats' Go Digital
- Credit Crunch Slows Media Deals
- Co-Op, Sprint Talk Resale
- Stations Tap Low-Cost Streaming
- Saying 'Si’ to Digital
- Fates & Fortunes
- Volume Control
- CBS' Tireless Minute Man
- Obituary
- Direct-Response Ads Get Direct Results
- Not Ready For HD Close-Up
- Adult PPV, VOD Prosper as DVDs Get Burned
- This Just In
- Hoffman: CNBC Ready for Fox Fight
- Comcast 'Opt-Out' Stirs Md. Concerns
- Deals
- Dish Picks Ex-MTVN Exec as Chief Marketer
- August 3
- August 2
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- Officially, Heacock Insalaco Joins Dish Network
- NBA Releases 2007-08 Schedule
- Nation Tunes In to Twin Cities TV After Bridge Collapse
- WNYW and WWOR Strike Deal With NY Giants
- WICT Chair Heacock Resigns
- MTV, BET Drive Strong Viacom Earnings
- Widevine Sues Verimatrix Over Content-Crypto Patent
- YES Network Sale Rumors Return
- Nickelodeon Responds to Mattel Toy Recall
- CNN Names Capitol Hill Correspondent
- August 1
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- AMC Unveils New Development Slate
- EXCLUSIVE: Setanta Sports Lands DISH Deal
- Time Warner, IBM to Cross-License Patents
- AMPTP Reaches Tentative Deal with Craft Unions
- Pappas Negotiates Traffic with Harris
- Dish Hires Ex-MTV Networks Exec as Chief Marketing Officer
- Sprint Nextel and MSTV Reach Microwave Accord
- AT&T to Spend $1.1B in Three Southeastern States
- Discovery Communications Is a Real TreeHugger
- The Closer Returning to TNT for Fourth Season
- HBO Taps Thomson for HD Expansion
- Cox Gets Wise on Customer Care; Promotes Yates
- Animal Planet Takes Meerkat Manor Mobile
- Comcast Cuts Ribbon on New Washington Facility
- Janoff to Direct NFL Network Games
- NBC U: Copyright Warning Complaint is Frivolous
- CN8, Comcast SportsNet Take College Football Multiplatform
- Nielsen, Claritas Sharpen Demo Targeting
- Weather Channel Brings Real-Time Conditions to EA’s NCAA Football 08
- Starz to Sponsor 34 th Annual Telluride Film Festival
- Japan’s Jupiter Telecommunications Merges Its Subsidiaries
- Craig Janoff Joins NFL Network
- Nehst to Produce Dribble Kick Throw
- Discovery Acquires Treehugger.com
- Computer Companies Complain About Copyright Warnings
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