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DirecTV to Relaunch The 101 Network

DirecTV will relaunch The 101 Network on May 31 with a fresh look. The rebrand will include new 3-D graphics, a new logo and other broadcast elements that will reflect the network’s programming and new direction. The rebrand on May 31 will coincide with...

Published Thu, May 21 2009 1:52 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, DirecTV, The 101 Network

DirecTV, Comcast Pay $3.21 Mil in Do Not Call Fines

DirecTV and Comcast Corp. will pay a total of $3.21 million for violating Do Not Call provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule. DirecTV and Comcast will pay $2.31 million and $900,000, respectively, to settle separate Federal Trade Commission charges...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 2:59 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, Comcast, DirecTV, Federal Trade Commission

NBA TV, DirecTV Strike Distribution Deal

The NBA signed a new deal with DirecTV that expands distribution of NBA TV. DirecTV will also continue to distribute the NBA League Pass package of out-of-market games to its customers. Beginning with the 2009-10 season, NBA TV will become part of DirecTV...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 12:28 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, DirecTV, NBA TV, NBA

‘Friday Night Lights’ Gets 26-Episode Order From DirecTV, NBC

The Panthers live. Universal Media Studios, Imagine Television and DirecTV have closed a deal to produce 26 more episodes of “Friday Night Lights,” the critically hailed drama about a small-town football team. The newly ordered episodes will almost certainly...

Published Mon, Mar 30 2009 7:14 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Cable, NBC, Friday Night Lights, DirecTV, Imagine Television, Universal Media Studios

NFL, DirecTV Extend Deals

The National Football League said it extended its exclusive deal with DirecTV for its Sunday Ticket package of out-of-market games through the 2014 season. DirecTV also extended its carriage of the NFL Network. Cable operators, who want a piece of the...

Published Mon, Mar 23 2009 6:31 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, NFL, NFL Network, DirecTV

Column: Where Are Cord-Cutters? Signing Up for Cable, Satellite

Evidently, the revolution hasn’t started yet. My army of cord-cutters has yet to march up and stand by my side. According to industry analyst Craig Moffett, they’re actually going the other way, back to the multichannel mothership. In a recent report...

Published Sun, Mar 1 2009 9:30 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, Digital, Print Edition, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, AT&T, Charter, Satellite, Cord Cutting

Satellite TV Hearing Creates Controversy in Congress

It didn’t take long for Congress’ first attempt to open discussion of reauthorizing the nation’s satellite TV law to turn into a donnybrook between broadcasters and satellite companies over TV station carriage and compensation issues. In the first of...

Published Tue, Feb 24 2009 12:59 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, Dish Network, Congress, DirecTV, Satellite

Comcast Internet, Phone Growth Offsets Video Customer Decline

Comcast, the largest U.S. cable television company, said today that video subscribers declined slightly from a year ago, hinting that satellite companies such as DirecTV and fiber-optic services may be continuing to pull customers from cable providers...

Published Wed, Feb 18 2009 12:36 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, Dish Network, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, AT&T, Verizon Communications

DirecTV Adds ‘Trailer Park Boys’ to The 101

DirecTV’s The 101 Network will broadcast the Canadian comedy “Trailer Park Boys.” The TV series will make its debut on the network on Feb. 5 with two back-to-back episodes. Two new episodes will follow every Thursday night at 10 p.m. DirecTV has acquired...

Published Tue, Feb 3 2009 1:37 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, DirecTV, The 101 Network, Trailer Park Boys

Comedy Central Launches HD Channel

Comedy Central is going high-definition. Comedy Central HD will launch on Cablevision over a three-day period beginning today and on Cox and DirecTV later this month. More HD launches are expected throughout the year. As part of its programming, Comedy...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2009 12:59 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, HD, Cablevision, DirecTV, Comedy Central, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Cox, The Colbert Report, Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, The Sarah Silverman Program, South Park, Comedy Central HD, Reno 911!

Discovery Signs Up for TNS’ DirecTView Measurement Service

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...

Published Wed, Dec 17 2008 1:18 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, Discovery Communications, DirecTV, DirecTView, TNS Media Research

Unanswered Questions: How Tough Is TV?

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...

Published Sun, Dec 14 2008 10:28 PM by News

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

DirecTV Brings Back ‘Wonderland’

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...

Published Wed, Dec 10 2008 12:02 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, ABC, Friday Night Lights, DirecTV, The 101 Network, Peter Berg, Wonderland

Sportsman Channel Coming to DirecTV

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...

Published Mon, Dec 8 2008 1:37 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, DirecTV, InterMedia Outdoors, Sportsman Channel, Barrett Productions

Christmas Ski Trip

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...

Published Sun, Nov 16 2008 10:36 PM by News

Filed under: Cable, Print Edition, VOD, FiOS, Verizon, DirecTV, Ski Channel

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