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- December 31
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- Cable Ratings Rock Broadcast In 2008
- ACA Blasts Viacom For Running ‘Drop’ Crawl
- Costas Hosts Q&A With Larsen, Berra On MLB Network Debut
- Costas Hosts Q&A With Larsen, Berra On MLB Network Debut
- Viacom, Time Warner Cable Remain Deadlocked
- RFD-TV To Say 'Hee Haw' At Rose Parade
- Dish Network Adds ‘Dark Knight’ To 1080p Movie Lineup
- Dish Network Adds ‘Dark Knight’ To 1080p Movie Lineup
- December 30
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- Cable One Reaches Tentative Retrans Deal With KPHO
- Raycom In Retrans Standoff With Cox, Other Ops
- Cablevision Sends MLB Network Up In Standard, HD Formats
- Verizon’s FiOS Launches in Philly Suburb
- Meredith, Cable One at Retrans Impasse in Phoenix
- MLB Network In Swing With Cablevision
- Hulu to Live-Stream New Year's Festivities
- Cox Enterprises Names Hayes CEO
- NCTA Opposes Urban TV Proposal
- KUSA, KMGH Share News Chopper
- FCC Meeting Praises Departing Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate
- Highlight Shows
- Major League Baseball
- Miscellaneous shows
- December 29
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- In Demand Makes Titles Worth $2.5 Billion At Box Office Available
- BroadSoft Acquires VoIP Competitor
- MLB Network Heats Up Stove Report
- Meredith, Cable One at Retrans Impasse in Phoenix
- Nexstar May Be Facing Retrans Disagreement
- FCC: Analog Nightlight Law Excludes 35% of TV Markets
- 'Kyle XY' Hitting Fancast In Advance Of Premiere
- Comcast Responds to FCC Plan to Adjudicate Access Complaints
- HLN Begins Taking Advice From Money Coach On Jan. 3
- NFL Seeks Clarification On FCC Media Bureau's Decision
- Verizon Makes NHL Winter Classic Available on V Cast
- Cablevision Offers TV Globo
- Q&A With FCC Chairman Kevin Martin
- 'Man Of La Mancha' Playwright Passes Away
- December 28
- December 27
- December 26
- December 25
- December 24
- December 23
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- 'MNF' Scores As Cable’s Most-Watched Series
- Kustok Added To Comcast’s 'SportsNite' Roster
- Warner Bros. Sues CBS Over Two and a Half Men
- Baier Succeeds Hume As Host Of 'Special Report'
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
- NBC's WTVJ Sale to Washington Post Co. Is Off
- Harmonic To Buy Scopus For $51 Million
- Style Serves Up Consumer-Made Commercials For Ruby
- News Ratings: NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel Come Out On Top
- Nick Unveils Kids Pop Culture 'Dashboard'
- Craig Hitchcock Joins The Paley Center for Media
- Animal Planet Show Has Whale Of A Season
- Cooper, Griffin To Ring In CNN's New Year
- Harmonic Snags Scopus
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
- December 22
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- Tennis Serves Programming Division Restructuring
- Fox Reality 'Pixilates' Itself
- Grayson Goes from 'Early' to 'Nightly'
- WADL Detroit Sues Petry Media
- Roku Streams HD Movies From Netflix
- Food Network’s Flay Drops By HGTV’s Dream Home
- Food Network’s Flay Drops By HGTV’s Dream Home
- MTV Orders Up ‘Miley-Sized’ New Year’s Special
- Agency Looks To Split Super Bowl Ad Time
- B&C's 2008 Year-End Quiz: The Answers
- U-verse TV Rolls Into Three Ex-BellSouth Markets
- B&C's Year-End News Quiz
- December 21
- December 20
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- Executive Of The Year: Insightful Leadership
- New Jersey. Nets Go (Planet) Green
- MTV, AMC Set 2009 Series Plans
- Governor Eyes Cable, Satellite TV Taxes In New York
- SES Americom to Unplug IP-Prime Service
- Working for Houston
- MoCA Stirs Bandwidth
- Fates & Fortunes
- U-Verse TV Banks a Million
- SAG vs. AMPTP: A Zero-Sum Game
- A Powerful Voice for Latinos
- More Than A 'Toaster With Pictures'
- 2008: Back to the Future
- Positive 'Spin' Elevates Liberty
- HBO Strikes Deal With Oprah's Harpo
- Voom Goes Boom
- Activist Grabs Gavel
- The Gambler
- SoapNet Ready for Love
- Cable Rings Them Bells
- MTV, AMC Set Plans For 2009 Series Slate
- December 19
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- MSG On The Road To New Original Series
- CableLabs CEO Joins Liberty Global Board
- Local TV Up 1.2% in Q3
- TV One Celebrates Music of Civil Rights Movement
- Greenfield Glad Rainbow Lowered Boom On Voom
- VH1 Celebrity Rehab Goes Sober
- Waxman, Dingell To Share Telecom Oversight
- MCN Puzzle Solution
- Britt, Iger, Murdoch, Roberts On Tap for Cable Show
- Fox News Tops Banner Year for Cable News
- December 18
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- Rainbow Pulls Plug On Voom HD Service
- CableLabs Certifies Netgear DOCSIS 3.0 Voice Modem
- Fox TV Stations Get 'The Closer'
- Fisher Communications Sues Dish For Breach-of-Contract After Station Drops
- Fisher Files $1 Million Lawsuit Against Dish
- Verizon Telecom's Marketing Chief To Retire
- 'Law & Order: SVU' Strip Clears 92% Of Country
- Comedy Orders A 'Secret Girlfriend'
- 'Degrassi' Renewed Through 2011 In 60% Of Country
- What’s In Wilen Name Change?
- IPG Closes Magna Global Entertainment
- WorldLink To Sell Fox Infomercial Block
- Shapiro, Equity Partners To Buy TV Guide Net in $255M Deal
- Macrovision Sells TV Guide Network
- Fisher Stations Go Dark on Dish
- In Latest Retrans Beef, Dish Drops Fisher TV Stations
- Adult Swim Picks Up Brit Hit 'Look Around You'
- MicroSightTitle1
- December 17
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- MTV, VH1 Appoint New Strategy, Operations EVP
- N.Y. Latest to Propose Cable, Satellite Taxes
- Charter Adds Fox Business In Northeast, Midwest
- TV Land’s ‘High School Reunion’ Back in Class
- HBO Elevates Woodbury To General Counsel, EVP
- Liz Dolan Named OWN CMO
- Ike Walker Out at KTKA
- Discovery First Up for TNS' DIRECTView
- World Fishing Network Catches Charter Distribution Pact
- MTV Greenlights Eight Youth-Targeted Reality Shows For 2009
- Zimmerman Tapped For WWE PR
- Hearst-Argyle's Fred Young Honored With Paul White Award
- Woodbury Named HBO Legal Eagle
- Richard Gay to Head MTV, VH1 Strategy and Operations
- Food Network Strategic Opportunities - December 2008
- December 16
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- NAB To Launch National DTV Hotline
- TV One Launches HD Channel
- Former TWC Exec Takes Viamedia GM Post
- Bright House Wins PEG Migration Case
- HBO Inks Oprah Deal
- Dish, ComCorp Engaged in Retrans Dispute
- Services Set for Bob Seefeld
- D.C. Council Gives FiOS TV Green Light
- MSNBC Names Shuster Anchor of ‘1600 Pennsylvania Avenue’
- Q&A: Motorola’s Mark Schaffer
- Oprah’s Harpo Films, HBO Strike Development Deal
- Amimon: 1M Wireless HD Chip Sales in 2009
- Havoc Goes HD on Comcast, DirecTV
- 'Dexter' Third-Season Finale’s A Killer
- New NXP Chips Will Boost Use of IP Content on HDTVs
- Nickelodeon Web Sites Top Kids, Family Web Destination List
- SES Americom To Shut Down IPTV Service
- TCM Marathon To Honor Van Johnson
- Kiernan Named News Director at WBBM
- Cable Gets Biggest Ratings’ Lift From Time-Shifting: Nielsen
- Carlsen Resources To Bow Executives-on-Demand Unit
- TWC, Granite Ink Retrans Deal
- It's Berry and Perry Atop Image Show
- Tinseltown Reality: Net Greenlights 'Househusbands of Hollywood'
- Fox Business Inks Charter Carriage Deal
- Fox Orders Musical Comedy Series 'Glee'
- Biden Names Media Staffers
- Time Warner Closes Retrans Deals With Granite, ComCorp
- FCC Gives 10 Stations More Time to Boost DTV Coverage Area
- Fisher Names Hassan Natha VP, Finance, Principal Accounting Officer
- Punjabi Net Joins SES Lineup
- Comcast: Give the gift of HD
- December 15
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- Rockefeller Named Senate Commerce Chairman
- Telecom Provider ACN Takes Control Of WorldGate
- Reelzchannel Moves Forward With VOD Promo Despite Layoffs
- Wilson Promoted to Tribune Revenue Chief
- Former Univision Personality Gives Telemundo Ratings Boost
- Univision L.A. DTV Test Prompts Thousands to Action
- Liberman Readies Launch of Estrella TV
- Q&A: Telemundo’s Mare;a Antonieta Collins
- Pfeiffer: Obama Staff Did Not Have Pay-For-Play Discussions With Blagojevich
- Zodiac Releases Interactive Set-Top Software
- Great Idea: Boosting Morale
- Bravo to Bring Back Hotlanta ‘Wives’
- Spike TV Corrals Burnett For ‘Toughest Cowboy’ Series
- 'Martha Stewart Show' Renewed In 60% Of Country
- Bravo Renews 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta'
- Tribune: After the Fall; Company's Troubles May Cost Studios
- Robert Carlyle to Star in New Stargate Series on Sci Fi
- Google Says It Is "Committed" To Net Neutrality
- Spike TV Gets Burnett Cowboy Reality Competition Series
- National Advertisers Want ICANN To Reevaluate Domain Proposal
- Young Stations Back on Dish
- CNN Gets a New Graphic Look
- CNN Gets New Graphic Look
- Google Tries To Pave Its Own “Fast Lane” On The Web
- BET Honors Magic Johnson, Blige, Perry
- December 14
- December 13
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- Young Is Latest Retrans Drop
- Translation Please: Meet the EBIF User Agent
- Democratic Report Slams FCC’s Martin
- 30-Day Safety Net OK’d
- Deals
- HBO, Cable Still Have Golden Touch
- Economy’s Pinching Cable, Too
- Comcast Hits HD 'Triple’
- Meet the EBIF User Agent
- MCN Names 2009 'Wonder Women’ Class
- Trust but Verify
- B&C Talkback
- Navigating the Shoals
- Dish Drops 10 Young TV Stations
- Michigan Cities Seek PEG-Channel Answers
- An Open Letter on TV Piracy
- Hulu Rides 'SNL’ Wave
- Fates & Fortunes
- Cox's Fisher Closes a Chapter
- December 12
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- Rentrak Signs Deal With AT&T to Track U-verse TV
- ABC Gets Interview With Dick Cheney
- Jamie McIntyre Exiting CNN
- Reelzchannel Doles Out 40 Pink Slips
- CNN Reorganizes Staff To Cover New Administration
- FiOS to Raise Its Voice
- Viacom-Led Premium Network Will Be ‘Epix’
- 'Bachelor'’s Fleiss Inks New Deal With Warner
- CNN Reorganizes D.C. Assignments
- CBS Vet Robert Chandler Dies At 80
- Charter Exploring Bond Alternatives
- Retrans Row Knocks 10 Young Stations Off Dish
- Oxygen’s Addicted To Spa Series
- Oxygen Gets 'Addicted To Beauty'
- Discovery Goes On Treasure Quest
- World Fishing HD, Dish Dangle Cash Sweepstakes
- December 11
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- Former NBCU Treasurer Sentenced
- Sean Hannity Not Getting Replacement For Alan Colmes
- CBSSports.com To Stream SEC Basketball Action
- FS Southwest Viewers Get The Vibe To Watch Mavericks Games
- DC Stations Planning DTV Shutoff test
- Rehr Urges Bush To Allow Analog Past Feb. 17
- 'The Doctors' Back For Season Two
- RTNDA To Honor Three With First Amendment Awards
- December 10
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- NBC Affiliates To Help Build Leno Show
- Retrans Talks Breakdown Between Cable One, Phoenix Station
- Michigan Cities Turn to FCC for Answers in PEG Lawsuit
- DirecTV Adds PBS Local HD in 10 More Markets
- DirecTV's 101 Network to Re-Run 'Wonderland'
- Hundt, Kennard On Tap for FCC Reform Conference
- McClenahan Named KCBS, KCAL President
- DirecTV To Revive ABC’s ‘Wonderland’
- Hallmark Connects Nielsen TV and Product Usage Info
- Heavy Layoffs at Raycom Stations
- December 9
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- Democratic Report Slams Martin's Management Practices
- Cox Names Brennan COO
- Nexstar: $20 Million in Retrans In 2008
- Akselrad Departs HBO
- Fox Gets Down To Business With Cox
- HBO Co-President Akselrad Leaving
- Hallmark Keeps Viewers Home for the Holiday Movies
- Dish Names New Programming Chief, Top Lobbyist
- B&C Editor in Chief Ben Grossman Talks Leno on CNBC
- Disney Preparing Cost Cutting Measures
- Comcast Unveils New HD Triple Play Tiers
- Litton Brings Multi-Platinum McKnight to Syndication
- Pair of Golf Channel Execs Ace Promotions
- Davis Leaves Charter Board
- Drake & Josh Holiday Film Fills Nick With Ratings Joy
- Fox Business Inks Carriage Deal With Cox
- Webby Awards Commission Promotional Web Shorts
- 'Drake & Josh' Movie Tops Cable For Week
- Ad Buyers React To Jay Leno's Move To 10 P.M.
- Kevin Martin Slammed In House Report
- Smithsonian Channel Takes To The Skies With Original HD Series
- Ex-Teen Idols Fight for Fame on VH1
- NTIA: 43% Of Over-The-Air Households In Hawaii Applied For DTV Coupons
- Complete Coverage: UBS Global Media and Communications Conference
- Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Kicks Off Online
- December 8
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- Equity Media Eyes Bankruptcy
- Rutledge Offers New DVR Details
- NBC Restructures Studio, Network Programming Divisions
- U.S. Ad Spending To Decline 3.2% In 2008, 4.5% In 2009: Magna
- CTAM Board Names 2009 Officers
- Canoe Brings Three Execs On Board
- CEO Christie Hefner Leaving Playboy Enterprises
- Magna Forecasts Ad Spending Drop of 4.5% for 2009
- NBC Launches Jimmy Fallon Website
- Jay Leno Taking Over 10 P.M. On NBC
- Lafayette, Broadcasters Settle Retrans Squabble
- Playboy Chairman To Step Down
- Lifetime Telefilm 'Flirting With Forty' Collects 4 Million Viewers
- Dish Becomes Exclusive U.S. Provider of Two Polish Nets
- Blitzer Extends CNN Deal; King Gets Four-Hour Sunday Block
- HBO to Re-Air End of a Sports Era
- Blitzer Re-ups; King Gets New Realm
- Brightcove Lays Off 15% Of Workforce
- Clark Howard to Host Headline News Show
- Fox To Go All HD, All the Time
- Fox Will Go All HD, All the Time
- Fox Moves to All-HD Distribution with Motorola
- Univision Stars in Its Own Soap Opera
- Recession 2008: Continuing Coverage of the Economic Impact on The Media Business
- December 7
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- NBC Not Slashing Super Bowl Prices…Yet
- Consumers Won't Cut Media Spending
- Rachael Ray Serves Up New Food Network Program
- Fox Moves to All-HD Distribution With Motorola
- Tribune Weighs Bankruptcy
- David Gregory Named 'Meet the Press' Moderator
- 'House of Payne' Is No. 1 With African-American Audiences
- David E. Kelley Is Frustrated With Broadcast TV
- 'Man Vs. Wild' Star Grylls Injured In Antarctica
- FiOS’s Denson Crosses Over
- Cover Story: Fear Factor
- December 6
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- WNDY To Choose New Station Host From Contest
- Media Companies Issue Pink Slips
- Cablevision Defends Network DVR
- Gospel Custom-Fits Vignettes
- AT&T Becomes A Back-Seat TV Driver
- Review: 'The Librarian: Curse of The Judas Chalice'
- Cable Industry’s North Star
- Fates & Fortunes
- Mum in Mumbai
- Dish Net Program Chief Eric Sahl to Exit
- ATSC Eyes Digital TV's Future
- Watching Wachovia
- Fear factor
- MTV, NBC Sports Ink Action-Sports Pact
- The Big Thinkers
- December 5
- December 4
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- CEA Slashes Holiday Sales Forecast
- 'The Shield' Ends Run Quietly With The Nielsens
- Updated: Summit Deal Brings ‘Twilight’ to Showtime
- AMPTP Details Final Contract Offer to SAG
- Fox Sports Taps Liverani To Lead Florida RSNs
- Cablevision Opens New Online Store
- HGTV Camps Out for Tournament of Roses Parade
- Sprout To Air Christmas Eve ‘Snooze-A-Thon’ For Preschoolers
- Discovery Takes Investigation Channel Abroad
- 'Twilight' Comes To Showtime With Summit Deal
- Top 100 Cable Systems
- No Love For Verizon—Yet—in Philadelphia
- Hallmark Channel Extends Radio City Show Sponsorship
- Viacom to Cut 850 Jobs
- WONKA Brands Dropped From Kids Shows
- Mago Takes Over Atop NAB Legal/Regulatory Affairs
- Primetime Ratings: CBS On Top With 'Rudolph', Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
- December 3
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- NBC Universal Lays Off Ad Sales Staff
- Josh Howard Leaving CNBC
- ESPN vs. Cablevision's Dolan At The FCC
- ESPN vs. Cablevision's Dolan At The FCC
- Newsy November Juices Cable News Ratings
- Cox Brings Newspapers, TV & Radio Together
- Cable Operators Want FCC Cap Ruling Reversed
- MyNetwork Moves Up In TV Rankings
- DirecTV Rolls Out Local PBS Stations in HD
- New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson Nominated For Secretary of Commerce
- WGN Presents ‘Yule Log’ Set To Classic Radio Shows
- Cablevision Says Hola to Optimum Latino
- A&E’s ‘Exterminators’ Comes Out of the Woodwork
- ‘Yule Log’ To Burn Brightly On VOD, In HD
- MobiTV Notches 5 Million Subscribers
- Church Uses Devil To Rebrand Prayer Channel
- Midseason Grid
- Broadcasters Behaving Badly
- Will Your Newscast 'Ignite?'
- WCSC Pairs Kaleido-X Multi-Viewer With HD Newscast Monitoring
- December 2
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- OnScreen Media Summit: Superserving Sports Fans on the Web
- OnScreen Media Summit: Branded Content's Risks and Rewards
- NatGeo Takes Turn as DigitalPlus Guinea Pig
- Comcast Adds HD Threesome In Penn., Delaware
- NATAS Announces Business & Financial Reporting Emmys
- Discovery, History and ESPN Are Cable Favorites: Beta Research
- OnScreen Media Summit: Cross-Platform Ad Sales Remain 'Elusive'
- NBC Uni Exec Sentenced
- Comcast Rolls Out ‘Dragon’ Chinese Tier in Boston
- MTV, NBC Sports Form Action Sports Alliance
- Golf Channel Tees Up Overleese For Key Operations Role
- Comcast Spotlight Promotes Lucido
- MTS Chooses Harmonic for Upgrade
- OnScreen Media Summit: Verklin Charts Canoe’s Course
- Disney Orders Up More ‘Hannah,’ ‘Suite Life on Deck’
- Redstone Dumps Midway Shares
- HGTV Rolls Out Quartet of New Real Estate Series
- OnScreen Media Summit: Audience Measurement Still Evolving
- Boston TV Stations Participating in DTV Day Event
- Adult Swim Duo Look To Put On 'Awesome' Shows
- Ion To Air Two Original Holiday Telefilms
- Second DTV "Soft Test" Completed in New York
- OnScreen Media Summit
- December 1
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- Cover Story: Shortfall Season at CNBC
- ESPN Classic Drops Checkered Flag on NASCAR Season
- Cablevision To Launch Four HD Channels From NBCU
- Online Ad Targeting Learns to Speak Espanol
- MCN Presents OnScreen Media Summit
- iTunes, V-me Partner for Downloads
- Beck Makes His Fox News Debut Jan. 19
- ESPN Deportes to Viewers: You Make the Call
- Cine Latino Expands Offering
- Already on the Trail for 2010
- Great Ideas: Looking to 2010
- ATSC Pushes Mobile TV Standard Forward
- Yahoo! Reveals Most-Searched List For 2008
- BET Shines Spotlight on AIDS, HIV
- Joost Launches iPhone App
- Comporium Snaps Up Citizens Telephone
- CBS News Names Nancy Cordes Congressional Correspondent
- Clearwire Closes Wi-Max Deal
- Broadcasters Break Into Programming For Obama Announcement
- TNT Leverages Sponsorship Pact For New Series
- ACA Files Support of Cable One's FCC Request
- 'The Newshour With Jim Lehrer' Gets Funding From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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