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| 10.09.2008 |
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DTV Nastiness: NAB, Consumers Union Go After Cable
As the DTV transition approaches, it's not all "Kumbaya" between the impacted industries. Punches are starting to get thrown. It started with an article in the Nov issue of Consumer Reports about cable operators moving channels to digital from...
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| 10.09.2008 |
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Must Carry Madness
ACA is the latest to weigh in on FCC chmn Kevin Martin's proposal to allow low-power stations to gain full power status, and thus must carry status, with cable operators. Late Wed, Martin added the item to the Oct 15 agenda. ACA suggested that the best...
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| 10.07.2008 |
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Day 4
Time Warner Cable and LIN-TV's retrans spat continues. The latest sees the MSO running some alternative programming in markets where LIN pulled a bcst station's signal...
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| 10.06.2008 |
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PC-to-TV 101: Is Time Warner Cable on a Slippery Slope?
With Time Warner Cable and LIN-TV embroiled in a showdown as retrans negotiations begin for the new cycle, what can other operators take away? Like others in years past, TWC is handing out rabbit ears to subs and making its case on Websites. But the MSO also...
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| 10.03.2008 |
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Retrans Row: McSlarrow, Twitter, Time Warner Cable and LIN
As everyone waited to see if Time Warner Cable and LIN TV would be able to broker a deal or extension by midnight Thurs, one thing seemed certain: there will be plenty more retrans consent spats to come. Already, Brownsville, TX, NBC broadcaster KVEO, owned...
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| 10.02.2008 |
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Retrans
Time Warner Cable still had no deal with LIN TV Wed afternoon and faces losing the broadcasters signals in multiple markets if a deal or extension isn't reached by 12:01am Fri. LIN has said it will yank the signals of 15 stations, which include the markets of...
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| 09.26.2008 |
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Retrans Row
ACA pointed Thurs to retrans complaints by small ops as evidence that broadcasters have "unrestrained market power" over small ops derived through federal laws and regulations. Small LA op Trust Cable TV, who had systems impacted by Hurricane...
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| 09.25.2008 |
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DTV Doings
Rep Lois Capps (D-CA) introduced legislation that would allow short-term, continued analog broadcast of essential info after the Feb 17 nationwide, DTV...
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| 09.22.2008 |
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DTV Doings
ION Networks is taking the lead in an initiative to soft test the analog cutoff next month. NBC O&Os, Telemundo and public broadcasters are on board, with...
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| 09.16.2008 |
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Retrans
Cable bonnet bee LIN TV said it expects Time Warner Cable to discontinue carriage of 15 stations on Oct 2, alleging unresponsiveness by the...
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| 09.10.2008 |
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Wilmington Watch
After 1 day of no analog broadcasts, Wilmington's participating 5 TV stations report receiving 226 calls about the switch. Of those, only 1 was from a viewer who reported being unaware of the transition, NAB said. Most of the calls were from viewers who had...
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| 09.09.2008 |
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Done Deal: Wilmington Stations Report a Handful of Calls After DTV Switch
The digital switch was flipped in Wilmington, NC, Mon at noon. And so far, there is no word of an angry mob with non-working TVs swarming and throwing analog sets out the windows. Five Wilmington broadcasters stopped telecasting in analog at noon ET, opting...
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| 09.09.2008 |
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Retrans
Things were indeed looking up Fri ( Cfax, 9/8) as DISH and Citadel reached a carriage agreement that restored...
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| 09.08.2008 |
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Retrans
Things may be looking up in DISH Network and Citadel's retrans dispute. "We are encouraged by recent developments in our negotiations with the DISH Network," Citadel pres/COO Ray Cole said in a message posted on the affected stations'...
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| 08.27.2008 |
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Retrans
DISH and Citadel's retrans skirmish doesn't show signs of ending soon. "DISH Network continues to be inflexible and appears to have drawn a line in the sand... a line which makes it...
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| 08.26.2008 |
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Retrans
Buckeye Cable and Toledo NBC affil WNWO agreed to an extension that will...
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| 08.25.2008 |
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Retrans
A typical retrans back-and-forth between cable and broadcast factions is playing out online and in...
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| 08.13.2008 |
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Hush Hush: NAB's Quiet Period Proposal Doesn't Please Cable
Before cable formally asked the FCC to institute a "quiet period" to ensure that retrans disputes don't trigger DTV transition-related customer confusion, NCTA tried to broker a voluntary proposal with NAB, we're told. Nothing ever came of it, but...
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| 08.13.2008 |
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DTV Doings
To get ready for Wilmington's early Sept 8 analog...
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| 08.12.2008 |
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The CableFAX Show: A Very Brady Transition
Mike and Seth mull cable's "pleasurable" treatment by...
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