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NBC, Broadcast Pioneer, Prepares For Comcast Takeover

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: General Electric Co., NBC News, Nbc, Cable Tv, Comcast NBC, Radio Corporation of America, NBC Universal, Comcast, Museum of Broadcast Communications, Jeff Zucker, Federal Communications Commission, David Sarnoff, NBC Broadcast, Vivendi SA, Media News

NEW YORK — Eight decades after pioneering the concept of broadcasting, NBC is on the verge of a startling move that illustrates broadcast televi...

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Al Gore's Current TV Lays Off 80 Staff, Changes Direction

Lisa Derrick | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Layoffs, Al Gore, Cable Tv, Current TV, Cable News, Mtv, Current.com, Media News

The pioneering, Emmy-Award winning channel was originally conceived by Gore and businessman Joe Hyatt as a peer-to-peer news and information network.

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DVR Ratings Bringing TV Networks Money

New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Ads, Dvr Ownership, Abc, DVR Ratings, Dvr Use, Network TV, Nbc, Tivo, Networks, Fox, Ad Revenue, TV Shows, Cbs, Dvr, Commercials, Cable Tv, DVR Revenue Model, Media Buyers, Revenue Model, Advertising, Revenue, Tv, How Many People Own DVRs, Ratings, Neilsen, Ad Sales, Media News

Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies...

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Fox Should Pay Obama for Pitching It

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Gop, Cable Tv, Democrats, Fox, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News Channel, John McCain, Media News

Some Democrats recognize that Obama's making a cardinal blunder in propping up Fox through the backdoor with his attacks. Fox, of course, giddily loves every swipe that he takes at it.

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A Follow Up: "Hank Moody: For Women Only" (Question)

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Poll, Gender, Cable Television, Media News, Gender Issues, Mad Men, Women, Dating, Relationships, Survey, Don Draper, Cable, Women's Issues, Cable Tv, Hank Moody, Californication, Entertainment News

Despite at times being self-centered, lewd and at times irresponsible, would you date and/or marry Hank Moody?

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Don Draper: For Women Only, Please Respond

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Mad Men, Women, Cable, Women's Issues, Sexism, Cable Television, Gender Issues, Survey, Cable Tv, Tufts, Poll, Don Draper, Culture Change, Gender, Media News

I am associated with the Culture Change Institute, a Tufts based group founded by Sam Huntington and Larry Harrison, which examines various cultures r...

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Our Noisy Sun: Happy Solar Outage Month

Lisa Napoli | Posted 10.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable Tv, Solar, Astronomy, Robert Halderman, David Letterman, Media News

The other night when I turned on my boob-tube, there was no signal. Control freaks take heart: If you must know exactly when this might happen to you and your TV service, type in "solar outage calculator" online.

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An Interview With the Smart and Savvy Jill Zarin

2morrowknight | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York

Read More: Celebrity, Reality TV, Charities, Philanthropy, Parenting, Business, Jewish, New York City, Nonprofit, The Real Housewives of New York City, Cable Tv, Jewish Family, Marketing, Style, Entertainment, Jill Zarin, Shed Media, Bravo TV, New York News

Long before being a recognizable celebrity, Jill Zarin had a long record of accomplishment that reveals her to be nothing less than a Renaissance woma...

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Remember What Civility Was? A Book to Remind Us

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civility, News Media, Cable Tv, President Obama, Urban Worrier, Frank Gruber, Santa Monica-California, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News

Urban Worrier is an extraordinary book about an ordinary life as lived in extraordinary times. How I wish voices like Frank Gruber's were the voices of politics and argument we were hearing on cable TV!

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TV or Not TV

Lisa Napoli | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Television, Cable Tv, Jay Leno, Living News

Now that I've delivered the manuscript to my publisher, it seemed like a fine time to rejoin the world and see what's going on in the zeitgeist I've so blissfully shut out for so long now. And what better way to do that than to deploy the cable television?

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State of the Union

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sag, Entertainment, Parts and Labor, Show Business, SAG Elections, David Dean Bottrell, Screen Actors Guild, Unions, Boston Legal, Hollywood, Bluray, Aftra, Martin Sheen, Old Media vs. New Media, Writers' Strike Opinion, Aftra-and-Studios, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike, Cable Tv, SAG Strike, Amptp, Doug Allen, Ed Harris, AFTRA Negotiations, Dvr, New Media Advertising, New Media, Alan Rosenberg, Politics News

If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.

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Wedding-Themed Cable Channel in the Works

Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Cable Tv, Cable, We Tv, Media News

Rainbow Media, the programming arm of Cablevision, is set to launch a new wedding-themed cable channel, according to several executives familiar with ...

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Why Fox News Is Really Pleasant and Agreeable

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics, Fox News, Michael Wolff, Cable Tv, Cable News, Cnn, Barack Obama, Media News

Fox News is apparently on track to have its best year ever. WTF?

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Network Upfront Results Will Impact the TV Content Landscape for Decades

Jack Myers | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable Tv, Upfront, Broadcast TV, TV Ratings, Network TV, Media News

This year's Upfront results will have significant impact on the future of the network television business.

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Tightened Budgets Result In Family Bonding

AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Board Games, Economic Crisis, Tv, Cable Tv, Bonding, Movies, Family, Living News

NEW YORK — After almost 16 years of marriage, Unita Walburn and her husband had drifted apart. The stress of raising two special needs children ...

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Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz -- How MSNBC Became a Liberal Mecca

Rory O'Connor | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Ed Schultz, Phil Griffin, Cable, Rachel Maddow, Cable Tv, Cable News, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz MSNBC, Nbc, Media News

Both Schultz and Maddow have already driven MSNBC's all-important ratings numbers up in the highly competitive cable news environment.

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The Reality of Reality

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Candid Camera, Reality TV, Twitter, Associated Press, Cable Tv, Harvard, Facebook, Star Search, Internet, Queen for a Day, Advertising, Viagra, Ted Mack's Amateur Hour, Frank Sinatra, Neilsen Media Research, American Idol, Myspace, Media News

Twitter can certainly create the hype, but whether the talented producers behind it can actually deliver a program anyone will want to watch remains to be seen.

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TV's Fuzzy Future: Traditional Tube Is Being Squeezed Out Of The Picture

Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 06.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Television Fading, Television, TV Online, New Media, Internet TV, Cable Tv, Tv, Future of Tv, Media News

Danny Ledonne rarely misses "The Daily Show." He's a frequent viewer of its cable TV cousin, "The Colbert Report," too. And for additional political s...

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Alzheimer's: Maybe Not What You Think

Dan Agin | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Taxes, Education, Alzheimer's, Research, Hbo, Aging Parents, Cable Tv, Alzheimer's Week, Living News

We should be shouting in the streets to find a way to make certain that every kid who has a talent for it can have a free education right through to the moment when they start working in a lab.

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Prosecuting Torture: How the Words of Poet WB Yeats Can Help

Lea Lane | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

The best of us must now show "all conviction" to hold hearings to prosecute those who authorized torture.

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Never Waste a Crisis: Re-examining Our Monthly Federal Budget Priorities

Daniel McLeod and Barb Chalfonte | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Tax Day, Federal Budget, Cable Tv, Hair Cuts, Rahm Emanuel, Flowbee, Politics News

Military-related spending is the 800lb gorilla in the room, gobbling about 40¢ of each tax dollar. That's about $135 a month to pay for military actions both past and present.

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USA Sets Cable Ratings Record, Labeled NBC Universal's "Single Greatest Asset"

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Bonnie Hammer, Cable Tv, USA Network, Cable, Usa, Jeff Gaspin, Media News

NEW YORK — These may not be the best of times for the United States, but they're great for USA. The cable channel that is home to the fussy det...

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HBO's Online Video Test In Milwaukee A Sign Subscription Cable Coming To Web

New York Times | Brad Stone and Brian Stelter | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media

Read More: HBO Milwaukee, Hbo, Television, Cable Tv, Time Warner, Cable, Milwaukee, Media News

MILWAUKEE -- In the last couple of years, the television industry has made a big push onto the Web, giving viewers hope that they might one day reach ...

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Cable Companies Target Commercials To Audience

New York Times | Stephanie Clifford | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Cable Tv, Cable, TV Advertisements, Television, Cablevision, Tv, Media News

The advertiser's dream of sending a particular commercial to a specific consumer is one step closer to reality as Cablevision Systems plans to announ...

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