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TV News: KCET taps TV personality for talkshow -- L.A. pubcaster KCET has tapped Sarah Purcell to host "The Time to Care," a weekday talkshow aimed at people responsible for caring for older adults.
TV News: Deal agreed two hours after deadline -- After escalating quickly into a public war of words, the contract battle between Time Warner Cable and Viacom ended quietly in the wee hours of New Year's Day with a deal that averted the threatened blackout of MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and 16 other Viacom-owned channels.
TV News: Duo find resolve in contract battle -- After escalating quickly into a public war of words, the contract battle between Time Warner Cable and Viacom ended quietly in the wee hours of New Year’s Day with a deal that averted the threatened blackout of MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and 16 other Viacom-owned channels.
TV News: Successful 2008 for cable networks -- Schadenfreude is alive and well in the cable universe, with a number of outlets gleefully touting best-ever ratings that have come, at least partly, at the expense of the troubled broadcast networks.
TV News: Basque separatists blamed for car bomb -- A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a regional television station in northern Spain following a warning call from the armed separatist group ETA, police said.
TV News: Football broadcasts buck downward trend -- The broadcast nets are down by about 10% vs. last year at this point, four out of five returning skeins are down from last year, and only two of 16 new shows improved their timeslots, but NBC's "Sunday Night Football" finished its third season up
x% from 2007.
TV News: Exec shuffles, politics shake up broadcasters -- A combination of money, Chinese politics and incompetence has shaken up the boardrooms of Hong Kong's TV broadcasters. No. 2 broadcaster Asia Television (ATV) has gone in to meltdown after its entrepreneurial and reformist CEO Ricky Wong was ousted.
TV News: Tough times may call for lax restrictions -- It's not a given that further relaxing restrictions on media consolidation would significantly benefit ailing broadcasters and newspapers at this late stage. But without some kind of action, more broadcasters, newspapers and magazines will die off.
TV News: A memorial service for actress Majel Barrett Roddenberry will be held Sunday, Jan. 4 at 10 a.m. at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills, 6300 Forest Lawn Dr.,Los Angeles.
TV News: Time Warner negotiating to keep channels -- Time Warner Cable subscribers may wind up starting the new year without MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, VH1 and other Viacom-owned cablers on their channel lineup.
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