Comcast, Univision Strike Comprehensive Retrans Agreement In its first announced retransmission-consent agreement, Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications has struck a deal for carriage of its owned-and-operated TV stations and its affiliate stations with Comcast, affecting 20 million subscribers.
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In another pact aimed at bringing Web-based video to TVs, Broadcom and Adobe Systems announced Tuesday that they will work together to integrate Adobe’s Flash multimedia platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television and set-top box system-on-a-chip platforms.
CBS CEO Les Moonves offered few additional details regarding its recent retransmission consent deal with Time Warner Cable at an industry conference Tuesday, but added that the deal sets the stage for future deals with cable operators.
Rentrak Corp. and NBC Universal have reached a multiyear pact under which the programmer will use the measurement company’s Mobile Essentials service to gauge the performance of content in advanced-platform settings.
Cartoon Network will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its popular 1990s’ animated cartoon series The Powerpuff Girls with an original 30-minute special premiering Jan. 19.
Clearwire Tuesday officially launched WiMax broadband mobile service in Portland, Ore., offering download speeds up to 6 Mbps to customers looking for to replace their cable or DSL connection.
Entropic Communications has shipped more than 20 million c.Link chip sets, which support the Multimedia over Coax Alliance standards for home networking.
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News January 6, 2009 Slinging TV to iPhones
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Cable Hall of Fame Six cable industry leaders were inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame last week during a ceremony held in conjunction with The Cable Center’s Cable Days at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
History Wraps Up NYC Subway To promote the third season of its hit series ‘Cities of the Underworld,’ History executed the first-ever full advertising wrap of the exterior and interior of a New York City subway car.
DCI Rings In Debut on NASDAQ Exchange Discovery Communications executives and several on-air personalities from across Discovery’s networks rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange to commemorate the first day of trading as a public company.
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