Comcast ‘TV Warehouse’ To Collect STB Clicks Comcast has sketched out plans for a gigantic database called “TV Warehouse,” able to store a full year of statistics gathered from digital set-tops in more than 16 million households nationwide, according to an industry executive familiar with the project.
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Los Angeles—Kim Kardashian and her clan, whose reality series will have its third-season opener March 8 on E! Entertainment Television, told TV critics Friday that their show has brought them closer together and that other families identify with them.
Los Angeles—Defrocked minister Ted Haggard is breaking his silence about his fall from grace as a minister in an upcoming HBO documentary The Trials of Ted Haggard.
Las Vegas—The elimination of analog TV broadcasts in the U.S.—currently set for Feb. 17, although the incoming Obama administration is hoping to push the date back—will give cable and satellite operators in the U.S. roughly 1.7 million new subscribers, according to a forecast by investment bank Barclays Capital.
Los Angeles—The Style Network has ordered a second season of its biggest hit ever, Ruby, and set a March 1 debut date for its new docu-series about Marie Claire magazine, officials said Friday.
Los Angeles -- Tony DiSanto, MTV executive vice president of series development and programming, promised critics "an unprecedented set of series launches" during 2009, but the network decided to promote two to TV critics here: T.I.'s Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go and How's Your News?
Washington—New York Democratic Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is tentatively supporting a delay of the Feb. 17 digital television transition, arguing that a $1.34 billion converter box coupon program has collapsed and needs additional funds rapidly.
Los Angeles – In a surprise turn, actor Patrick Swayze, who is fighting pancreatic cancer, cancelled his appearance at the Television Critics Association winter press tour for A&E Network Friday after checking himself into a hospital for pneumonia.
Las Vegas—Cisco Systems expects several cable providers to initiate field trials in the second quarter of its next-generation set-top, the Explorer 8600, the company’s first to provide high-definition multiroom DVR features.
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News January 8, 2009 Hanks a Lot, Sir Howard
Las Vegas -- Tom Hanks gave his sometime-employer Sony a not-so-gentle ribbing in h... More
REYNOLDS' RAP Mike Reynolds, , January 8, 2009 BS Championship Game
No the C in the acronym isn’t missing.
Tim Tebow and Dominique Franks have bee... More
MY TURN Kent Gibbons, Executive Editor, Multichannel News January 8, 2009 ‘Atlantis’ Hits the Mark
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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.
DCI Rings In Debut on NASDAQ Exchange Discovery Communications executives and several on-air personalities from across Discovery’s networks rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange to commemorate the first day of trading as a public company.
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