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Discovery Communications will begin using TNS Media Research’s DirecTView audience measurement services for viewer data across the company’s cable and satellite networks. DirecTView uses return-path data from 100,000 DirecTV satellite subscribers to give clients insight into the viewing habits of DirecTV...
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For television, there seem to be more questions than answers as 2008 comes to a close: How many industry pros will lose their jobs? How long will the recession last? How badly will the advertising market that is TV’s lifeblood falter? Wave after wave of anxiety-provoking headlines don’t help matters...
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Filed under: Broadcast, Cable, Digital, Fox, Emmys, DTV, Advertising, CBS, NBC, YouTube, Google, Viacom, Syndication, MSNBC, The Doctors, Katie Couric, CBS Evening News, Print Edition, Ben Silverman, Web Video, TV Ads, CNN, Kevin Martin, Project Runway, Friday Night Lights, Dr. Oz, DirecTV, American Idol, Dr. Phil, Oprah, Bill O'Reilly, Sumner Redstone, Chris Matthews, Rosie Live, Larry King, Oscars, Subchannels, Grammys, Harvey Levin, Ellen DeGeneres, John Roberts
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DirecTV’s The 101 Network will air the critically claimed and controversial series “Wonderland” in its entirety beginning Jan. 14. The series about the lives of doctors at a New York psychiatric hospital aired for two episodes on ABC in 2000. DirecTV’s run of the series, which begins after the season...
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The Sportsman Channel and DirecTV have made a distribution deal. The network will be available to DirecTV customers in the Choice Xtra package by the end of January. The Sportsman Channel is owned and operated by InterMedia Outdoors, which also recently acquired Barrett Productions, a producer of outdoors...
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The Ski Channel plans to get off the lift and onto the slopes starting Dec. 25. Its launch date set, the video-on-demand service also has signed distribution deals with DirecTV and Verizon’s FiOS that bring its subscriber base to about 15 million, Ski Channel founder and CEO Steve Bellamy said. Mr. Bellamy...
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Dish Network said today that its third-quarter earnings fell 54%. The No. 2 U.S. satellite television service behind DirecTV lost customers for the second straight quarter despite spending more to keep them. Net income dropped to $91.9 million, or 20 cents a share, from $199.7 million, or 44 cents, a...
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Fox Reality Channel is set to begin production on the second season if its late-night original series “Battle of the Bods.” The show takes five women who rank their own body parts. The idea is to have their own score match the score given to them by a panel of male judges viewing them on the other side...
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios' MGM HD signed an agreement to be carried by Bright House Networks, giving the high-definition movie channel access to an additional 2.4 million U.S. households. The agreement with Bright House expands MGM HD’s reach to central Florida, Indianapolis and Detroit, among...
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“Friday Night Lights” will be the centerpiece of the fall season on DirecTV’s original programming service, The 101 Network. A critical darling challenged by low ratings on NBC, “Friday Night Lights” returns for a third season with original episodes that will be seen first on DirecTV beginning Oct. 1...
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Starz is partnering with cable and satellite providers to offer sneak previews before the launch of its first original series “Crash” on Oct. 17. The first two episodes of the show will be available via free on-demand through Comcast, Cox, Charter, Time Warner Cable in Los Angeles, Verizon FiOS TV, Mediacom...
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DirecTV’s second-quarter profit rose 1.6% as the largest U.S. satellite-television service added subscribers and cut customer turnover. The stock fell slightly after the earnings failed to beat analysts’ expectations because the company incurred higher interest costs. DirecTV posted net income of $455...