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Matt Stone and Trey Parker have joined with the team behind the Canadian series 'Kenny vs. Spenny' to produce new episodes of the comedy-reality series for Comedy Central. The network […]

Second of two parts. NEW YORK -- Jim Cramer's wildly popular nightly CNBC investment orgy, 'Mad Money,' is as interactive as static TV has become in the digital age, with [...]

Fox News Channel--with a graying audience that is pushing 70 - knows that it needs to reach younger viewers. But will its new streaming service extend its linear brand dominance? [...]

Given cable operators' boasts about full-blast mega-speed cable-modem services, plain-old dial-up Internet service providers seem pretty pedestrian. But a number of small operators are jumping into the low-tech end of [...]

by Todd Spangler MSOs See Applications as Part of Larger IP-Video Move Cablevision Systems may soon be ready to go live with network-based digital video recorder services -- but other [...]

By Todd Spangler A Simple Question Threatens 'TV Everywhere's' Business Model The cable TV industry is tantalizingly close to a solution for a digital problem that has already torpedoed the [...]

by Todd Spangler Turner Broadcasting System, in a test with Cox Communications' MyPrimetime, found the operator's video-on-demand service increased views of eight top shows from TNT, TBS and Cartoon Network [...]

by Linda Moss Network Raises Ante to Three Nights of Original Rare Building on the success of its signature hit The Closer , TNT is expanding its program lineup to [...]

AS THE TV WORLD TURNS less linear and more on-demand, Discovery Communications is experimenting with ways to make its content more accessible to more consumers. The international nonfiction content company [...]

By Staff Eagles-Redskins Tops Ratings Staff New York - ESPN's Sept. 17 Washington Redskins-Philadelphia Eagles Monday Night Football game was the sports network's highest-rated telecast of 2007. The matchup, won [...]

By Mike Reynolds and George Vernadakis THE STARTER WIFE USA Network * Thursday, May 31 (9 p.m.) If summer is the time for fun and romance at the shore, then [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead Anthony Hopkins fans waiting to see the Silence of the Lambs star immortalized on A&E Network's famed profile series Biography will soon have to tune their [...]

By Staff Fuse to Give Warped Tour Multimedia Play Staff New YorkNew York -- Video music service Fuse will place the annual summer alternative music Warped Tour on center stage [...]

By R. Thomas Umstead Cable's Original Summer Programming As recently as five years ago, most broadcast television executives considered summer a programming wasteland. The thought was that viewers would rather [...]

By Linda Moss Oxygen's development slate for next year includes projects encompassing a wide-ranging mix of comedy, reality series and original films, from such marquee producers as Lionsgate Television, Lovespell, [...]

By George Vernadakis Spartacus: Gladiator War National Geographic Channel Monday, April 10 (9 p.m. ET/PT) National Geographic Channel's Spartacus: Gladiator War belongs to the truth-behind-the-legend school, which aims to debunk [...]

Byline: CLAIRE ATKINSON Michael Jackson's misfortune is the best thing to happen to Court TV since, well, since the Scott Peterson trial, which ended with a death penalty verdict two [...]

As the pool of telecommunications service providers shrinks, equipment manufacturers are looking to cable operators to inject competition into the entrenched telephone market. Analysts doubt, however, that cable companies will […]

Felix Dennis is looking to exploit his frat-boy-esque Maxim magazine by launching a cable channel carrying the name, say people familiar with the project. The net would be 'more Comedy […]

OpenTV [OPTV], an interactive television company based in Mountain View, Calif., announced Wednesday that EchoStar Communications Corporation [DISH] has deployed more than 4 million DISH Network satellite TV set-top boxes […]

Company says it can offer about 100 movies NEW YORK -- Time Warner Cable will introduce video-on-demand service on its Los Angeles-area cable systems early next year, using nCube's server [...]

Court TV's special Shots in the Dark offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of crime photography, an hourlong look that has the potential for future expansion. Hosted and narrated [...]

ESPN will bridge the Sunday-night programming gap between the National Football League and Major League Baseball seasons with original entertainment programming. From Jan. 20 through March, the network will present [...]

As DSL options for high-speed Internet access continue to dwindle, cable companies are moving aggressively into the commercial market with services designed to overcome user concerns about security and reliability. […]

Comedy Central will launch its online store, shop@comedycentral.com, today. The venture will be announced during an episode of 'South Park,' which also will introduce a new character to the popular [...]

USA Network last week greenlighted Mystery Mansion, a Clue-meets Survivor game show, for a prime-time slot in first quarter 2002. The one-hour program showcases 22 strangers sealed away in a [...]

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. plans to join other programmers in testing subscription delivery of broadband content over high-speed modems later this year. Gerry Louw, the CTO of WWFE's new-media [...]

By David Williams, dwilliams@pbimedia.com EchoStar Communications [DISH] said it will broadcast Ali vs. Frazier 4, the professional fight between Laila Ali, the daughter of Muhammad Ali, and Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, the […]

Anita Ptak is the kind of customer media giants dream about. But for AOL Time Warner she isn't illusory. For years the Tampa, Fla., accountant made do with an uninspired [...]

By Eric Ladley As the more established cable networks continue to battle telcos offering digital subscriber lines in the race to corner the consumer broadband market, installation times and customer […]

Everyone knows about AT&T's grand cable TV plans, byt few realize just how ambitious those plans are. Try this: The infrastructure AT&T is building will ultimately support 64M bit/sec downstream […]

Discovery Health Channel will launch its first integrated national affiliates' campaign this summer, an educational program geared to run through the 2000-2001 school year. Dubbed 'Food for Fuel,' the educational [...]

By Mark Mueller The on again, off again relationship between Chello Broadband NV and the new issues market appears to have stalled again. Chello, a broadband Internet service provider based […]

MARKETING ACROSS BORDERS REQUIRES SPECIALIZED SKILLS to meet the diverse challenges of language, culture, economics, regulation and distribution. Worldwide expansion of brands is essential to the continued growth of companies [...]

Carlton kicked off its interactive TV service on the ONdigital platform last week. About time, some might say. But how does Carlton's new service measure up, Alasdair Reid asks ONdigital [...]

While Home Box Office and Showtime Networks Inc. may be cursing Starz Encore Media Group LLC for its innovative approach to studio/pay TV network agreements, studio executives are excited about [...]

NEW YORK -- Geraldine Laybourne will breathe life into Oxygen, her women's cable network, this week, as it debuts in markets such as San Francisco; Chicago; Denver; Dallas; Pittsburgh; Portland, [...]

New Bernstein/McKinsey study sees telcos still trailing four years from now Cable operators are better positioned than phone companies to meet consumer demand for broadband Internet access and will still [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Cablevision Systems Corp.'s Rainbow Media Holdings Inc. will launch a broadband media laboratory in the New York City market late next year, the company's president of regional [...]

ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire has revived the game-show genre. That's actually good news for cable, which has a broad range of game programming--and more in the works […]

If two fledgling TV networks have their way, the time spent waiting for a prescription will offer a new advertising opportunity. Retail Media Systems and Superior Broadcasting Corp. have launched […]

In the midst of a programming revamping, The Nashville Network is jumping on the bandwagon of cable's hottest trend: scripted fictional series. TNN will debut its first original dramatic series, [...]

NEW YORK--In a move designed to increase its presence on the Internet, MTV Networks has created MTV Interactive (MTVi), a company for MTV Networks' Internet operations (Billboard Bulletin, Aug. 31). […]

Montgomery County, Md., M one of the wealthiest areas in the nation, moved last week to introduce competition to its local cable-television market. After months of wrangling, it awarded a [...]

* A NEW REGIONAL SPORTS CABLE NETWORK, billed as the first in the nation devoted exclusively to college athletics, is scheduled to be launched before the start of the football [...]

WHEN IT COMES TO building a multiscreen, Internet-protocol video platform for the future, many of the nation's largest cable operators have their game plan in hand and are now in [...]