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Scripps’ Scorecard By Mike Farrell - 06/21/2008
With just under a full week of trading under its belt on the when-issued market, Scripps Networks Interactive appeared to be holding its own, maintaining a share price in the $43-per-share range as it moves closer to being a separate publicly owned company. More
Oxygen Enjoys ‘Sweet’ Ratings with Spelling Reality Show By Larry Barrett - 07/23/2008 Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood attracted more than 1.1 million viewers, making it Oxygen’s highest-rated and most-watched Tuesday primetime program ever.
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Vermont Cable System To Continue Carrying Al Jazeera English By Linda Moss - 07/23/2008
The municipally owned cable system in Burlington, Vt., has reached an agreement to continue to carry the controversial service Al Jazeera English, the city said Wednesday.
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‘Deadliest Catch’ Finale Nets Huge Ratings for Discovery By Larry Barrett - 07/23/2008
Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch reeled in more than 3.56 million viewers in its season finale Tuesday night, making it the most-watched episode of its fourth season and the top-rated primetime cable program for the evening.
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Verizon Juices Up FiOS Internet Gateways By Todd Spangler - 07/23/2008
Verizon this quarter will introduce two gateways for its FiOS Internet service that use coaxial cable in customers’ homes to transmit data at up to 175 megabits per second.
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‘Secret Life’ Sets Record for ABC Family By Larry Barrett - 07/23/2008 Secret Life of the American Teenager delivered another week of stellar ratings for ABC Family, attracting more than 3.1 million viewers—the most for any series telecast in the network’s history.
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Diddy Headlines New VH1 Summer Series By Larry Barrett - 07/23/2008
VH1 Wednesday announced the debut of three new original series premiering in early August, including I Want To Work For Diddy, a reality competition pitting 13 contestants against one another in the hopes of winning a job working for the hip-hop mogul.
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SNY Scores Big East Football, Basketball Rights By Mike Reynolds - 07/23/2008
SportsNet New York, the cable television home to Major League Baseball’s New York Mets, has bulked up its fall and winter lineups via a multiyear deal with the Big East covering both college football and basketball.
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USA Network's Sandy 'Burn Notice' USA Network transplanted ‘Burn Notice’s’ Miami beach setting to Times Square for a promotional event in support of the second-season premiere of the original series.
Comcast's New Video Wall The 83-by-25-foot, 10-million-pixel high-definition video wall located in the lobby of Comcast's new corporate headquarters has become quite a tourist attraction in downtown Philadelphia.
National Educational Computing Conference Operators, programmers, Cable in the Classroom and CTAM shared their resources with more than 18,000 school leaders, educational technology purchasers and decision-makers this week at the National Educational Computing Conference in San Antonio.
HBO Heats Up Summer With Documentaries
HBO Documentaries & Family President Shelia Nevins discusses the pay network's strategy of airing weekly documentaries throughout the summer.
