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DirecTV’s Gaming Series Offers $1 Million In Prize Money 06/17/2008
DirecTV's The 101 Network brings gaming back to its summer lineup with the broadcast of the Championship Gaming Series North America and World Final competitions, with $1 million in prize money up for grabs. More
Patent Office Lets TiVo Do The 'Time Warp' Again By Linda Moss - 01/14/2009
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to re-examine one of TiVo’s DVR “time warp” patents, one that company claims EchoStar is violating in contempt of a court order.
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CES 2009: EchoStar’s SlingLoaded HD DVR Lauded By Linda Moss - 01/10/2009
EchoStar’s SlingLoaded 922 HD DVR, the first to incorporate Sling Media’s patented place-shifting technology, has won a “Best of CES” award from the editors of CNET, officials said Saturday.
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Updated: CSN Bay Area Prepping HD Studio In San Francisco By Mike Reynolds - 01/09/2009
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area plans to present four hours of original programming nightly to coincide with the start of the 2009 Major League Baseball season.
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CES 2009: EchoStar Unveils The SlingGuide By Linda Moss - 01/08/2009
Las Vegas -- Sling Media Thursday unveiled SlingGuide, a new Web-based way to easily find and record TV programming from anywhere, at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.
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CES 2009: Dish Introduces ‘Sling-Loaded’ HD DVR By Linda Moss - 01/08/2009
Las Vegas – Dish Network Thursday launched world’s first SlingLoaded HD DuoDVR, the award-winning ViP922, at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.
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Updated: DirecTV, Comcast SportsNet In License-Fee Battle By Mike Reynolds - 01/07/2009
DirecTV and Comcast are involved in a license-fee dispute over two of the regional sports networks owned by the cable operator and could be headed to arbitration.
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BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News January 8, 2009 Dish Gets Slung
Las Vegas -- Dish Network has finally done what everyone expected it would do when ... More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News July 24, 2008 AT&T Disses Dish, Again
In what's become like watching a celebrity breakup, AT&T keeps signaling that i... More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News March 20, 2008 Joost Goes to the Hoop
Joost, the Internet TV startup backed by CBS, Viacom and others, will test out i... 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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