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MediaDailyNews: Kagan: TV Ad Revs Less In 2013, Than 2006
Although the advertising share of revenues from digital and retransmission fees will grow in the coming years, overall ad dollars for TV stations will still be $3 billion less in three years than it was in 2006...
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Source: MediaPost | Media News

MediaDailyNews: Forrester: Social Media, Web Spend Up, TV Down
A new Forrester Research/Association of National Advertisers survey says TV marketers plan to spend 41% of their media budgets on television in 2010 -- the same level as a year ago -- but down from 2008. Conversely, social media, Web advertising and search are stealing budgets from TV and other media...
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Source: MediaPost | Media News

MediaDailyNews: Dish, Rentrak Partner For Media Data
Rentrak, a media measurement company serving the advertising and entertainment industries, has an industry-advancing agreement with Dish Network to commercially integrate its TV viewing data with Rentrak's TV Essentials audience measurement service...
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Source: MediaPost | Media News

TiVo: Super Bowl plays trumped ads
The number of U.S. media and entertainment mergers and acquisitions fell dramatically in 2009 along with the overall dollar value of deals, but 2010 could see a bounce as the economy and overall M&A market recover, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers...
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Source: Hollywood Reporter

Investors getting a chance to see whether Madison Square Garden stock can score - Los Angeles Times
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Features

FEATURES
Social Media - What Can Cable Do?
Social networking: Who is doing it right? How can the cable industry best get in the game? Karen Ramspacher, 2010 CTAM Research + Insights Conference co-chair, caught up with Misiek Piskorski, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, to learn how his research has progressed to helping companies create successful social strategies....
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COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
3D Faces Barriers
There was some big 3D news at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ESPN announced a 3D network, and DirecTV will be offering three 3D channels, all to launch in June. Sony, IMAX and...
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FEATURES
2009 CableFAX 100

CableFAX: The Magazine's ultimate cable industry power list.
As always we’ve added several wrinkles to the 100 this year.

Social Media Quotient: We asked the 100 to rate themselves, from 1 to 10, on their proficiency and use of social media; 1= a novice, 10 = obsessed.

Age: A sticky question for many. Most of the 100 submitted their age or sent a humorous reply. We guessed at others and hoped not to offend.

Comcast-NBCU: As we went to press the deal had not been finalized, and while there’s a chance it won’t be, it looked increasingly like it would.

Thank you for spending some time with the 2009 edition of The CableFAX 100.

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COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Leveraging Broadband Forum Standards
The cable community has come to rely upon CableLabs-based specifications. In many cases, CableLabs specifies the operation of customer devices, including the headend-based provisioning of these devices...
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FEATURES
Cable's Iconic Journey
As Hallmark celebrates its deal with Martha Stewart, cable's power to attract big-name talent has become formidable. But can big stars also bring bigger headaches? And if so, isn't that just the price of cable's success?...
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Business:
Social Media - What Can Cable Do?
Social networking: Who is doing it right? How can the cable industry best get in the game? Karen Ramspacher, 2010 CTAM Research + Insights Conference co-chair, caught up with Misiek Piskorski, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, to learn how his research has progressed to helping companies create successful social strategies....
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Programming:
Is Viewer Engagement Dead?
Remember all that talk about Viewer Engagement back in the days before C3, set-top data, contextual advertising and other hot buzz phrases? Scripps Network SVP, research Michael Pardee asks whether it's time to revive a more robust debate about engagement and how it translates to advertising effectiveness....
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Technology:
Cox Uses Tapeless Ad Distribution
Cox Media, the advertising services division of Cox Communications, has launched an all digital system for managing ad distribution, known as SpotXpress. More than 90 percent of the 43...
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Competition:
Communications Technology: Smart Home: Echostar Touts Sling to Cable
EchoStar is trying to convince cable operators to buy Sling technology-enabled set-top boxes. The Sling-loaded set-tops can deliver cable TV content to other devices, such as laptops and mobile phones...
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Events:
Calendar of Events
April 19-20 ACA's 17th Annual Washington Summit www.americancable.org/events April 28-30 WICT Executive Development...
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Targeting Viewers and Ad Dollars:
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Tweeting Cable's Horn: Leveraging Twitter to Enhance the Bottom Line
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Fiber Optic Access: RFog and PON Update
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Wireless: The Next Five Years
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How Cable Can Monetize Web Video, Social Networking & Other Online Activities
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