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- September 30
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- Verizon: Hike Satellite TV Regulatory Fees
- WAPA America to Air P.R. Gubernatorial Debate
- Telemundo, Televisa Strike Mexican Soccer Deal
- MTVN Turns to Visible Measures for Online Stats
- Operator Of The Year: Managing Change At Time Warner Cable
- Media-Stock Gains Lag Behind Wall Street Rebound
- Sullivan Stepping Down at KNBC
- Debmar-Mercury Promotes Burstein
- Oxygen Adds VP of Original Programming
- Nielsen Problems Delay Ratings Release
- Fuel TV Pumps Up Executive Team
- PTC Complains About Survivor Episode
- Cablevision Pushes for Pancreatic-Cancer Research
- GSN Sets Up Online Shop
- History, Affiliates Sponsor Take A Vet to School Day
- TCM Pays Tribute To Newman
- Underwriters Laboratory Warns About Chinese Counterfeit Communication Cable
- Comcast Renews Deal With Amdocs
- Cablevision, Lustgarten Foundation Debut 'curePC' Awareness Campaign
- HealthiNation Secures $7.5 Million In B Round Funding
- Q&A: Charter CTO Marwan Fawaz
- September 29
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- Sci Fi Orders ‘RelicQuest’ Adventure Series
- Fox Sports Thunders With New NBA Rights Deal
- Bravo Lands Cable Rights to ‘Swingtown’
- Sprint Debuts WiMax Broadband In Baltimore
- Operator Of The Year: Time Warner Cable
- TruTV Tabs Ventura for Conspiracy Theory Series
- Koondel Upped at CBS Television Distribution
- Missing Woman’s Relatives Sue WBBM
- Versus Taps Danza to Host The Contender
- Jesse Ventura Body-Slams Conspiracy Theories for truTV
- Senate Adopts Broadband Data Improvement Act
- CLC Urges FEC to Deny Internet-TV Station Exemption
- Bravo Names Seminara CFO
- Obama to Arbitron: Delay PPM Rollout
- Ames to Head Sesame Workshop’s Global Production
- AT&T Takes U-verse To More Michigan Towns
- BBC World News America at One
- September 28
- September 27
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- EXCLUSIVE: Sci Fi Buys ‘Stargate SG-1’ Flicks For Spring ’09 Schedule
- Primetime Emmy Recap: Big Night For Dark Horse
- Analyst Frets Worst Economy in Two Decades for Media
- Screen Legend Paul Newman Dies
- NBC's Knight Rider Loses First Race
- Deals
- Battista Returns to Fox as President of National Cable Networks
- The Mystery of Vanik's Vanishing Voice
- The Digital Pace
- Gray's Multicast Strategy: Use That Real Estate
- It's Tough Out There
- Fates & Fortunes
- PEG Backers Cry Foul Over Slamming
- TV Transition Tension Rising
- Green to Leave CableLabs
- Lifetime Meets CBS’s 'Mother’
- NBC Parent GE Lowers 2008 Estimates
- For Perry, Palm Springs Is Eternal
- MTV Tr3s Finds the 'Words’
- AMC's Brand-Smart Strategy
- Nielsen Mistake Hurts KFOR
- September 26
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- Malone Doesn’t See DirecTV/Dish Merger
- Bush’s Economic Rescue Speech Watched by 52.7 Million
- ABC Family Lands ‘Potter’ Movies
- Comcast Serves Up Debates On Demand
- Adelstein Advocates More Analog-Cutoff Tests
- DTV Switch on U.S.-Mexico Border Concerns Reps.
- Group Pushes for Rights to Debate Footage
- CPB Nominees Approved by Senate Commerce Committee
- Debates On-Demand from Comcast
- TV Vision Network Names GM
- Debate Drama Hits Home for Fox News' Shepard Smith
- Regional Sports Networks Get In The Game With NFL Gambling Show
- IBC Rides the Hi-Def Wave
- September 25
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- Broadstripe Delivers Big Ten Network in Michigan
- ACA Claims FCC Filings Point to Broadcaster Abuse
- Verizon Audit Unearths Grounding Issues at FiOS Installations
- House Approves Lifetime-Backed Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act
- Oxygen Finds ‘Next Top Model’
- AT&T, Time Warner, Verizon Back Opt-In for Online Ads
- Nielsen Addresses Undercounted KFOR
- Martin: Give Class-A LPTVs Shot at Full-Power Status
- ESPN Sets Marathon College Hoops Tip-Off
- NBCU Parent Issues Profit Warning
- ‘Sunny in Philly’ Lets Fans Create Their Own Trailers
- Hallmark Renews Charter Carriage Pact
- Lifetime Applauds Passage of Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act
- Howard TV On Demand Names Senior Producer
- CableLabs CEO Green To Step Down
- C-SPAN To Offer Debates On Demand
- ‘Trailer Park Boys’ Park it on Comedy Central
- September 24
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- Content-Security Firm Verimatrix Raises More Than $20 Million
- Turner's GameTap Merges With French Gaming Firm
- Al Jazeera English’s ‘Witness’ Gets U.S. Distribution
- Dish Ships Enhanced Digital-to-Analog Converter
- Coalition Formed To Push Net Users To Legit Content
- Gospel Music Creates New WAP Site
- Lifetime Will Meet ‘Mother’ In 2010
- Time Warner Cable Adds Altaffer to Executive Ranks
- DirecTV Extends Indian Programming Pact
- Discovery Inks YouTube Deal To Drive TV Views
- CA Agency: U-verse Crimps Functionality of Some Public Channels
- Knight Rider
- Discovery, YouTube Ink Content Deal
- Fired Philly Anchor Sues Fired Philly Anchor
- WJZ Partners with Baltimore Sun
- Primetime Ratings: House, Fringe Down But Still Tops
- TNS: 1H ‘08 U.S. Ad Revenue Slips 1.6%
- Bravo Taps Viles for New Media
- September 23
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- 60 Minutes Keeps Ticking: A Multiplatform Special Report
- Dish, AT&T Agree To One-Month Extension On Reseller Deal
- Nat Geo Claims Three News, Documentary Emmys
- Powerful Senator Sees Potential DTV-Transition 'Crisis'
- Media Giants, Cable Fare Best in Stock-Market Drop
- Media Cos. Plug Product Placement at FCC
- Netflix to Stream CBS, Disney Channel Shows
- Hearst-Argyle Installs Bennack as Chairman
- Former SCTE Chief Clark Named CEO Of Networking Trade Group
- Martin Unhappy with Snack-Food Marketing
- Wayland Named GM at WHDH
- The CW Programmer Gets $350M Credit Line
- Whiting Gets VP Stripes from NBCU
- AP Taps thePlatform for Web Syndication
- Ascent Unloads Subtitling Firm
- ANA: Kids Seeing Fewer Snack-Food Ads
- Spike Steps Into ‘Ring of Death’
- Netflix To Stream Disney Channel, CBS Shows
- Comcast Offers Credits To Customers Struck By Hurricane Ike
- 60 Minutes: How We Saw It
- September 22
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- Comcast Spells Out How It Will Curb Internet Hogs
- Circuit City CEO Resigns
- Ascent Media Sells Subtitling Business
- Josh Groban Performs TV Theme Song Medley at 2008 Emmy Awards
- Big Media, Cable Hurt in Stock-Market Dive
- Fox Producers Switch Roles
- ION Adds Major-Studio Theatricals with Warner Deal
- Hill to Co-Anchor CBS’ The Early Show
- Free Press to FCC: Deny South Bend Deal
- Discovery Health’s Mullin Gets Some TLC
- Air Rifle Found in Car Sparks Emmy Delay
- Entertainment Studios Makes HD Push with Verizon
- Ion Signs Movie Pact with Warner Bros.
- Audience ‘Listening’ May Eventually Drive Ad-Spend Decisions
- The Richards Group Snags Suddenlink Account
- Verizon Adds 56 HD Channels In Philly Area
- Ever Wonder About Andy Rooney?
- 60 Minutes Keeps Ticking
- In Their Own Words: 60 Minutes Correspondents Speak
- September 21
- September 20
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- Comcast, Suddenlink Scramble to Restore Service in Texas
- Comcast Provides FCC with Network-Management Info
- DirecTV’s Ike Lifeline: Live Feed From KHOU
- BC Beat
- NAMIC Praises, Prods Cable on Minority Hiring
- Home Shopping’s Hard $ell
- Cable Stocks Weather Wall Street Storm
- Fine Living Lands NBC’s 'Biggest Loser’
- Cleaning Up Ike's Mess
- Twentieth Sells Mother in Seven Markets
- Nickelodeon Warms to 'Co-Viewing'
- Bewkes: TW Isn’t Feeling Market Turmoil
- Dunn Follows in Dad's Footsteps
- A Taste of IPTV Future
- Scripps Seeks Affiliate-Fee Increase
- Fates & Fortunes
- Al Primo and Me
- September 19
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- Wall St., TV Stocks End Week on High Note
- More D.C. Cuts for ABC News
- ABC.com Premieres Full-Episode Video Player
- SPJ Applauds St. Paul for Dropping Charges vs. Journalists
- C-SPAN to Launch Debate Hub
- Martin to Testify at Food-Marketing Hearing
- Discovery Index Swap Causes Gyrations
- Entravision to Launch Agenda Washington
- TBS Selects MLB Postseason Announcers
- WWOR-TV Remains On Yankees Roster
- BET Goes to Court with ‘Judge Karen,’ ‘Judge Hatchett’
- Sci Fi Stocks ‘Warehouse 13’
- Cartoon Network's ‘Star Wars’ Mall Tour, It Is
- Tugging at Our Conscience
- Hidden Cameras and The Mirage
- 60 Minutes Time Line
- September 18
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- SPT Clears Dr. Oz in 14 Markets
- The 60 Minutes Clock, Through the Years
- Comcast To Open Communications Center for Stranded Residents
- Cablevision Counts Half-Million Optimum Rewards Members
- Broadcasting Surpasses Wall Street’s Thursday Gains
- Suddenlink Readies VOD for Texas Systems
- Verizon Promos Free Espanol FiOS TV Package In Five States
- Versus Goes Nationwide with Atlanta Football Classic
- ESPN Takes Fantasies To FiOS TV
- Spike To Rebroadcast UFC Events
- Nielsen Goes On Location
- Cablevision Pauses Revamp Thoughts Amid Wall Street Turmoil
- ACA Cites Dramatic Rise in Broadcast’s Retrans Revenue
- DirecTV Adds Local HD in Six Markets
- LG to Star at Emmys
- Nielsen Reports Out-of-Home Video Audiences
- Nielsen: 1H ‘08 Ad Spend Drops 1.4%
- Kirchen to Head Up WBRC
- Starz Plans to Crash Early
- Will: Obama Victory Would Bring Fairness Doctrine Back
- FCC Fines Station Over Wildfire Coverage
- September 17
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- Sprout Launches In Tampa On Bright House Networks
- HBO Wants Another Taste of ‘True Blood’
- TV, Cable Stocks Mostly Match Wall Street’s Big Drop
- Nickelodeon Gets Animated With Pair of New Series
- Fine Living Lands ‘Loser,’ ‘Queer Eye’ Syndication Pacts
- HBO Sports Goes 24/7 For Calzaghe-Jones Bout
- Murdoch Bullish on Outlook Despite Fox Stations’ Slump
- Discovery Owners Consolidate Their Stock
- Winners Abound at NYTVF
- Fine Living Acquires Biggest Loser, Queer Eye Reruns
- WNYW Says Good Day to Scotto
- September 16
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- Tribune, Local TV Team Up in Denver, St. Louis
- ‘MNF’ Sacks Cable's Live Audience Mark: 18.6 Million Viewers
- Couric Gets Palin Sit-Down
- Comcast Mounts Repair Effort In Houston Post-Ike
- Martin: Where Are $40 DTV Converter Boxes?
- TV-Station Web Sites Gain on Newspapers
- Gutierrez: Nursing Homes, P.O. Boxes to Get Coupons
- Retrans Takes Over DTV-Oversight Hearing
- TNT Raises Renewal 'Bar' For Bochco Series, ‘Saving Grace’
- BigBand Wins SDV Pact from Bright House
- Cox Subscribers in Northern Virginia Get Into the MYX
- Lifetime Offers ‘Proof’ For Breast Cancer Initiative
- 3,000 Viewer Calls After Milwaukee Soft DTV Test
- Retrans Standoff Could Keep LIN TV Stations Off TWC Systems
- IBC2008: Miranda Bows New Playout, Processing Solutions
- A&E Enters ‘Recovery Project’
- IBC2008: Panasonic Touts Olympics Role, AVCHD Momentum
- IBC2008: On2 Touts New Codec for Web Video
- Nick Goes Dark for Worldwide Day of Play
- Animal Planet Adds Holland to Executive Team
- Dutch MSO Plans HD VOD Service
- NEL Profits From New Encoders
- Comporium To Launch Ion Suite
- September 15
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- Buena Vista Hires Stone As Development VP
- HBO Developing Lincoln Miniseries
- LIN Readies for Time Warner Cable Retrans Fight
- Cine Nostalgia Launches on DirecTV Ms
- Lifetime’s Coco Chanel in Ratings Fashion
- Bright House Tampa Adds Channels to Hispanic Tier
- WWE Partners with Televisa
- One in Four Homes Has At Least One DVR: Study
- LEFT COAST BIAS: Separate NBC News and MSNBC
- Waterman to Run Tribune’s New Orleans Duopoly
- IBC2008: Harmonic Wins More DirecTV Biz
- ‘Coco Chanel’ Sews Up 5.2 Million Viewers for Lifetime
- Bio Channel Rides Shotgun With Lady Cops
- NAMIC’s Pipeline to Innovation
- Diversity Week Schedule
- Cable's Product Placements Drop 20% In First Half: Nielsen
- Nielsen Names Dandridge Chief Communications Officer
- RCN To Roll Out All-Digital Cable In N.Y.C.
- Cable Building A More Diverse Workforce
- Cable Lags Telco In Workforce Diversity Efforts: NAMIC Study
- Advertising Goals at Fox Soccer Channel
- Bar Raised, But Not Enough
- TWC Brings Africa To New York City
- September 14
- September 13
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- IBC2008: JVC, Sony Team Up on Solid-State Storage
- CBS College Sports Campaign Invokes Belushi’s ‘Bluto’
- Fates & Fortunes
- Workforce Diversity
- Kaitz Honors Bright House, Scripps
- Sticker Shock for Startup
- AT&T Eases Out Whole-Home DVRs
- Les Is More Vocal on CBS's Retrans Talks
- Diversity Is the Real Change
- CW Promotes Tuck to Sales Chief
- 'Wideband’ Service Primed For Action
- Walking Tall
- Film Studio Lionsgate Roars Into Cable
- Super Mario Not Fazed by Media Roller Coaster
- Telestream Expands Pipeline
- Nucomm Sends a Messenger
- TWC Dips Into Online Downloads
- Content-Friendly 'Xport'
- Hudlin Exiting BET
- NAB Fights Quiet Period
- Microsoft Targets IPTV Ads
- Life Goes On at KRON
- Two Takes on High-Speed Standard
- September 12
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- 9/11 Special Nets History 5.2 million Viewers
- Fox News’ Hannity Scores Palin Chat
- Motorola Widens VOD Storage Options
- Harmonic Encodes For Mobile, Internet TV
- Klobuchar Warns of DTV ‘Cliff Effect’
- Fox Cooks Up New Deal for Ramsay
- Houston Stations Brace for Hurricane Ike
- Senate DTV-Oversight Hearing a Go
- The Weather Channel Sale Wraps
- Cablevision to Launch Network DVR
- Kagan: Cable Remains Pay TV King
- September 11
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- Microsoft Targets Advanced TV Ads
- Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia Ramps Up High-Definition Game
- CTAM Summit Session To Tackle Convergence
- WOW CFO Cochran Adds COO Title
- Dish Restores Missouri Station in Retrans Deal
- Some NBC Super Bowl Ads Hit $3M
- USA Promotes de Crinis to EVP of Original Scripted Programming
- IBC2008 Preview
- Dish Pacts with Barrington, Restores KRCG-TV
- Twentieth Makes Fifth Grader Official
- Goodell Chats It Up On NFL.com Today
- TiVo Goes BlackBerry Picking
- WBRC's Leonard Shifts to KDVR
- Sturgess Named GM at WTWO
- September 10
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- Martin: No Big Buys After TWC Split
- ABC Cuts Broadcast Operations, Engineering Jobs
- FCC Details Wilmington Hotline Calls
- Massachusetts Town Latest to Sign Off on FiOS
- WE Locates Biggest Original Debut
- Cable’s Telephony Customers Love Them Two Times: J.D. Power
- Earthlink Builds Relationship With Time Warner Cable
- House Holding Hearing on Mexican Border DTV
- MPAA: FCC Has No Authority to Impose a la Carte
- Syndication Ratings: Court Shows Hold Up vs. Cable
- Syndication Ratings: Syndies Settle on Day Two
- Telemundo Promotes Guerra
- Thomson Sells Off Film-Transfer Business
- Paramount TV Vet Harris Dies
- Moonves Again Backs Couric After Conventions
- September 9
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- Lifetime Moves Communications Staff To L.A.: Reports
- Showtime Showhouse
- Burke: Local Focus Wins Battles Against Telco, DBS Competitors
- ‘MNF’ Doubleheader Scores Largest Cable Audiences of 2008
- Disney-ABC Adds Three Execs to Digital Media Group
- WWAY Wilmington GM: Only Four Calls Tuesday
- FiOS TV Hits Washington State With 98 HD Channels
- Border Stations Don't Speak Same Language
- 'Cochords' Take Production Flight
- Harron Communications’ Cohen Dies
- Time Warner Cable Pushes Broadcast Advertising
- Outdoor Channel Launches on Sky Angel
- Katt Williams Lands BET Hip Hop Awards Gig
- ‘New Kids’ Return in VH1’s Live ‘Behind the Music’ Special
- Harron Chairman Joel Cohen, 63, Dies
- NDS To Measure Set-Top Data With TNS
- Wilmington Pulls Plug on Analog TV
- September 8
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- Lance Armstrong Return Could Boost Versus
- 2008 MTV VMAs Deliver Demo Success
- BigBand Debuts Personalized TV Platform
- BBC News Show Sends Container Around World
- Eye On Ion’s Rebrand
- MASN Inks Three Carriage Deals
- HBO to Air Saddam Hussein Biopic in December
- New ION Image Targets Younger Demo
- Here! Lines Up First Talker With Gay Host
- Marketti Named Creative Director at This TV
- Invision.TV Takes On Web TV
- Comcast Settles Up to Close Florida Network Management Probe
- Nichols To Communicate For OWN
- India's Tata Invests In Video CDN BitGravity
- Mediacom Buys Back 30% Of Stock
- September 7
- September 6
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- ABC Orders 13 Episodes of In the Motherhood
- Media Moguls’ Spinoff Push
- Nexstar Makes DirecTV, AT&T Deals
- Putting a Mark on Content Security
- 'Axis' Spins Into the NFL
- Deals
- Fates & Fortunes
- Moguls' Spinoff Push
- Cablevision Lights Up Wi-Fi on Long Island
- Web Ad CEO Quits After Privacy Inquiry
- WE, Expo Trade Vows
- Lifetime Taps Ex-NBC Exec
- Ready for Her Primetime Debut
- Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates in New Microsoft Commercial
- September 5
- September 4
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- Ratings for FX's 'Shield' Slip in Final-Season Premiere
- Ratings for FX's 'Shield' Slip in Final-Season Premiere
- Comcast Sues FCC Over Network-Management Ruling
- Martin Fires Back at Comcast
- Nexstar Enters Retrans Pacts with DirecTV, AT&T
- Hailey to Star in L Word Spinoff
- Gustav Gives Weather Channel Cume Boom
- Soft DTV Test Brewing in Milwaukee
- Cablevision Completes First Phase of Wi-Fi Overlay
- VOD, Ad-Insertion Orders Buoy SeaChange
- ActiveVideo Networks Hires Programming VP
- MultiDyne Founder Jachetta Dies
- Nexstar Lands Retrans Deal with DirecTV, AT&T
- MTV International Plugs In HD Music, Kids Channel
- September 3
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- Cablevision Lights Up Wi-Fi On Long Island
- Obama to Enter O'Reilly's 'No Spin Zone'
- MTV Confirms Britney Will Kick Off VMAs
- Cox Equipment Played Role in Starting San Diego Wildfire: Report
- WECT GM: Wilmington DTV Switch Is On
- FCC Wraps Affiliation-Contract Review
- 90210 Highest-Rated Premiere in CW History in Key Demos
- Alfano Named Entertainment Chief at Lifetime Networks
- Journalists Concerned About Convention Arrests
- TiVo Extends DirecTV Tie, Preps HD DVR
- Liberty Media to Spin Off Starz Parent
- Targeted-Ad Firm NebuAd Loses CEO
- Comcast Expands Spanish-Language Lineup in Houston
- WildBlue Raises $50M
- Liberty To ‘Hard Spin’ Liberty Entertainment
- Americans Can’t Live Without DVRs: Survey
- September 2
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- NBCU Buttresses Business Affairs Department
- ‘Mr. Cool’ Commits to CTAM Summit
- ABC News Secures Sit-Down with McCain
- ESPN Reunites Original ‘PrimeTime’ Crew
- WICT Names Betsy Magness Fellows
- Gossip Girl Return Promising
- NBC Gives Hulu Sneak Peek at Fall Shows
- Entourage Return Crucial for HBO
- House, Home Run Derby Top Out-of-Home Viewing
- Verizon Argues Against Class-A LPTV Must-Carry
- TV Land Launching ‘Prime’ Programming Block
- Ted Raimi to Appear in Legend of the Seeker
- NBCU Television Group Names VPs, Directors
- Sarah Palin's Sports Reporter Days...
- Q&A: National TeleConsultants’ Ethan Bush
- Network Sprouts New Marketing SVP
- Must-Carry Mandates Outdated: Verizon
- Westwood One Taps Cell-Phone Data for Traffic Reports
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