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Home Shopper QVC To Cut 700 Jobs By Linda Moss - 11/13/2008
QVC, whose home-shopping sales have been hit by the dismal economy, Wednesday started layoffs that will ultimately result in the net reduction of 700 jobs, or nearly 6% of its U.S. workforce, and savings of $30 million to $40 million in 2009 costs. More
Rockefeller Backs June 12 DTV Switch By Ted Hearn - 01/15/2009
Washington—Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, is sponsoring legislation that would delay the digital television transition until Friday, June 12, 2009.
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Time Warner Cable Staffer Among Plane Crash Survivors By Kent Gibbons - 01/15/2009
A Time Warner Cable employee based in Charlotte, N.C., was among 150 passengers on a US Airways jet that crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon shortly after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport and was said to be “shaken up but otherwise OK.”
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FCC's Martin To Resign On Jan. 20 By Ted Hearn - 01/15/2009
Washington—Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin J. Martin said Thursday that he is resigning on Jan. 20 after nearly four years as leader of the national media regulatory body.
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DirecTV Serves Up Interactive Coverage of Australian Open By Linda Moss - 01/15/2009
DirecTVwill expand its interactive-sports programming this year with an unprecedented sweep of all four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, beginning with the Australian Open on Sunday.
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Al Jazeera To Provide News for ‘Worldfocus’ Public TV Show By Linda Moss - 01/15/2009
Al Jazeera Network has entered into a deal with to provide content for Worldfocus, an internationally centered nightly news program developed by New York’s WLIW, officials said Thursday.
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USA Network Takes Up Tolerance Campaign By Linda Haugsted - 01/15/2009
USA Network, which supported a social campaign to "Erase the Hate" in the 1990s, is launching a new public affairs campaign, Characters Unite, which launches on Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 19.
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BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News December 9, 2008 Recession Strategy: Attack Processes
Ad spending is hitting the skids. Layoffs are accruing across sectors -- today's bl... More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News November 25, 2008 Blue Tube
Are cable TV's best customers severely depressed individuals, who are literall... More
Cable Hall of Fame Six cable industry leaders were inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame last week during a ceremony held in conjunction with The Cable Center’s Cable Days at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
History Wraps Up NYC Subway To promote the third season of its hit series ‘Cities of the Underworld,’ History executed the first-ever full advertising wrap of the exterior and interior of a New York City subway car.
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