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MSNBC Turns Into a Freak Show

Roughly eight years ago, there was a nasty fight at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. On one side was Roger Ailes, then - president and CEO of CNBC and its sister cable network, America's Talking. On the other side were NBC strategist ...READ»

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Ffwd to Bring Order to the World of Online Video

Patrick KoppulaCEO Ffwd> San Francisco, California Patrick Koppula, 34, who cofounded the popular music-recommendation site iLike, started Ffwd (pronounced fast forward) to bring order to the world of online video. "TV has ...READ»

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Special Offers? Wait a Minute.

I was moving into an apartment on Broadway about a month ago and was going to hook up my place with cable, phone line and the Internet. Verizon was touting a package of DSL service that costs $29.99 a month and a wireless router ...READ»

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Cable's Reach, Revenue, Ratings Threaten Network TV's Supremacy

With ratings and revenue on the rise, basic cable is taking aim at network TV's supremacy.READ»

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Cavorting With Cavuto

How the host of cable's highest-rated business show brings the market to the masses.READ»

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EAS system

Untitled DocumentEmergency Alert System: The Emergency Alert System (EAS system) is a national warning system in the United States put into place in 1997, superseding the Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) and the CONELRAD System ...READ»

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What Happens to '30 Rock' Jokes Now That Comcast Is Buying NBC?


This morning it became official: Comcast is buying NBC Universal in a deal estimated to be worth $30 billion.READ»

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Media: MTV Content to Bolster imeem's Business

Now that imeem has secured rights to music from all the major labels, as I reported earlier on this blog, the social media network is looking to expand its offerings in the video department. Its announcement today indicates that it ...READ»

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Peter A Sokoloff & Co.

About Peter A Sokoloff Phone Number: 818.547.4500Fax: 818.547.4388E-Mail: psokoloffco@gmail.comWebsite: www.sokoloffco.comMr. Sokoloff began his investment banking career in 1980 working for Bill Daniels. Mr. Daniels was known as the ...READ»

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The Media Blues

Tokyo — NBC’s Beijing Olympics coverage was over the top, with more coverage over the air, on its cable networks, and online than in all the years since the 1960 Olympics, combined. But here’s the shocker: despite streaming ...READ»

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Watch online TV on Your PC -- Satellite Direct

Are you interested to know more about the Satellite Direct TV software that supposedly allows you to watch all your favorite TV channels such as sports, premium movie channels, international TV shows and many other genres? If you are ...READ»

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Satellite Direct: Download Satellite Direct Tv Pc Software

Are you interested to know more about the Satellite Direct TV software that supposedly allows you to watch all your favorite TV channels such as sports, premium movie channels, international TV shows and many other genres? If you are ...READ»

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Hulu's Competitors: The Wild World of Web TV

Media giants and startups -- not to mention pirates -- are chasing an online-video audience of 158 million. Here's how key players connect to, and compete with, Hulu.READ»

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Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover

Not long ago, he was the butt of jokes--lockbox, earth tones, a postelection beard. Then he dusted off an old slide show and jumped with both feet into the private sector. The untold story of how an epic loser engineered what may be the greatest brand makeover of our time.READ»

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Hulu: YouTube Killer? No, The Internet's Nick at Nite

Hulu, NBC and FOX's joint Web video site, opened to the public today after being in private beta since late October. I'm not going to do a full review (there have been plenty; check here and here for starters) but from looking over ...READ»

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Andrea Wong Wants to Reinvigorate Lifetime. (Step One: Steal Project Runway)

Andrea Wong brought us The Bachelor! Now she's trying to reinvigorate Lifetime with positivity and fun.READ»

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Innovation Wednesday: Al Gore's Current Tv Gets An Emmy Nod

One of my favorite innovators, Current TV, has been nominated for their first Emmy Award. This is no small accomplishment. Current, the cable network started jointly by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, is barely two years old, and had a ...READ»

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Payday: Ustream's Pay-Per-View Online Entertainment

Will Ustream's pay-per-view experiment forge a business model for live Internet video?READ»

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YouTube Wants to Let You Charge for Your Keyboard Cat Remix

YouTube's just teased a new feature that could, just possibly, utterly transform YouTube from an essentially trivial video amusement park into a serious money-spinning business for creators of original video content. It's basically ...READ»

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Google TV Ads to Offer Targeted Advertising

Google is teaming up with Visible World, a software company that provides customizable TV ads, to make a push into the "addressable TV" space. The partnership hopes to serve consumer-specific ads based on demographic and viewing data ...READ»

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Court Slaps Down FCC Over Comcast Ruling, Throws Doubt Onto National Broadband Plan

The FCC has been slapped down by federal judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. over its attempts to censure Comcast for slowing down its customers' access to a torrent site. That does not bode well for the government's ...READ»

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Stream Direct TV - Watch Stream Direct TV on PC Review

Want to know the truth about Stream Direct TV? Watch Live tV on PC using the best TV on PC software that will provide you over 4500 HDTV channels. You xan now watch your favorite TV shows whenever and where ever you want to. READ»

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Stream Direct TV Review - Watch Stream Direct TV on PC Reviews

Watch TV on PC with Stream Direct TV Software Have you ever heard of Stream Direct TV? Learn the truth about this TV on PC software here!What Stream Direct TV Has To Offer?Want to watch live TV on your computer but doesn't know which ...READ»

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What Stands Out?

I spent about 10 years working in advertising and public relations (internal and external). I still do the occasional corporate identity package or strategy consulting gig. What I notice about today's ads is... how few of them really ...READ»

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