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Time Warner Cable’s decision to pay Viacom more to carry networks including MTV and Nickelodeon demonstrates that when programmers and cable operators fight over money, it’s the pipeline that feels the pinch first and faces more downside risk. Viacom last week threatened to pull its 19 channels off Time...
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Viacom and Time Warner Cable have reached an agreement in principle that ends the threat of Viacom channels, including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, being pulled from the cable operator's systems, a Viacom spokeswoman said. The agreement was reached just after midnight Eastern Time, when Time...
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Time Warner Cable says Viacom, which is threatening to pull signals for 19 cable networks from the operator’s system, is seeking $39 million more annually in the companies’ fee dispute . Viacom plans to remove its channels—including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV—from Time Warner Cable at midnight...
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Viacom is threatening to pull its networks, including Nickelodeon and MTV, off of Time Warner Cable tomorrow if the companies don't reach an agreement on fees for the channels. Viacom is readying advertisements featuring characters from its channels, including SpongeBob SquarePants from Nickelodeon...
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Nickelodeon is launching the first multiplayer kids’ game online as part of its Big Green Help initiative. The Big Green Help Global Challenge will ask kids to virtually pledge volunteer hours that can be translated into action for environmental change in their homes, communities and schools. Kids can...
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Television viewing has been up this year, but the big broadcast networks have registered record declines, according to the chief research officer at Turner Broadcasting. Things will only get tougher for the broadcasters, says Turner’s Jack Wakshlag. He thinks the February transition to digital broadcasting...
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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Diversity Committee will hold a discussion tonight at 7 p.m. on diversity in animation at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio. Among those participating in “Diversity in Animation: Beyond the Color Bars” are Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids & Family Group President...
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Viacom said the weakening economy helped cut its net earnings by 37% in the third quarter. The company, which owns MTV Networks, said net earnings were $401 million, or 65 cents a share, down from $641 million, or 96 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. Revenues edged up 4% to $3.4 billion. “The...
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What if a kid won the competition on “Project Runway”? That’s almost the idea behind a new show on Nickelodeon called “True Jackson, VP,” which debuts Nov. 8. Fifteen-year-old Keke Palmer plays Jackson, an entrepreneurial youngster spotted by the head of a clothing company to lead its youth division...
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Viacom said it expects lower earnings growth than it had forecast earlier in the year. The company, which owns cable networks including MTV, VH1, BET, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, said its earnings growth for the year will be in the mid-single to low-double digits for the 2008. Earlier this year,...
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Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are scheduled to appear on Nickelodeon’s election mainstay, “Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: Kids Pick the President.” The show, scheduled to air Oct. 12, will feature the candidates fielding questions from kids about everything from the economy to...
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Nickelodeon said it has signed 15-year-old Victoria Justice from “Zoey 101” to an overall talent and music deal. Ms. Justice has been tapped to appear in a new comedy series set in a performing arts school that's being developed by Dan Schneider, creator of Nick’s “iCarly,” “Drake & Josh” and...
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Nickelodeon will premiere “Nick News With Linda Ellerbee: Torchlight on Tibet: Politics, the Olympics and You” on July 20. The program will tackle the issue of Tibet with Chinese, American and Tibetan children. The kids will debate whether politics should be a part of the Olympics, and if not, whether...