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Punjabi Net Joins SES Lineup 12/16/2008
JUS Punjabi, the country’s first Punjabi-language network serving the Indo-Punjabi, Sikh, and South Asian communities throughout the United States, has launched on SES Americom’s AMC-1 satellite. 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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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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REVIEW: 'The Beast' By R. Thomas Umstead - 01/15/2009
Much has been written over the past year about the failing health of cancer-stricken star Patrick Swayze. But in his new A&E Network drama The Beast, the former Dirty Dancing star looks strong and convincing as a tough FBI agent.
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BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News November 5, 2008 CNN Goes Holographic
Beam me up, Blitzer!
In the fierce one-upmanship among news channels to produce... More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News October 21, 2008 TWC Mashes Up Fake Celebs
Sex! Drugs! Reliable phone service!
Time Warner Cable has launched Fame Sta... More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News October 9, 2008 Sling Now Swings Both Ways
Video content has been locked into the cage of its distribution medium.
It's bee... 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.