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Pick a channel, any channel: CNN, Court TV, The Discovery Channel, Black Entertainment Television, The Cartoon Network, QVC, HSN, The Family Channel. Chances are Liberty Media owns a healthy piece [...]

The biggest audience the Food Network ever mustered for star chef Emeril Lagasse was about 1 million people, scoring a 1.2 Nielsen household rating for a special tied to the [...]

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 [...]

Execs persevere through set-backs at black start-up network New Urban Entertainment may never see more than a glimpse of airtime unless a strategic partner steps in. Conceived as a black [...]

Convergence is one of the biggest buzzwords today -- and with good reason. The term is more than a recent addition to the industry's dictionary -- it's part of the [...]

Time Warner Cable of Houston plans to add up to nine channels of high-definition television programming to its digital-cable lineup. The Dec. 13 channel additions will also include 11 new [...]

Both Showtime Net works Inc. and Starz Encore Group LLC will add new channels to their digital packages, officials from both companies said last week. Showtime is targeting 'Generation Y,' [...]

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL -- DirecTV Inc., stepping up its battle for Latin American market share against direct-to-home rival Sky Latin America and Brazil's mighty Organizacoes Globo, is getting into the [...]

Trying to stay ahead of the new kid on the news-service block, CNN Newsource plans to introduce several enhancements to its service during this week's Radio-Television News Directors Association convention. [...]

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 [...]

Cox Communications Inc. planned to send video-on-demand vendors a request for proposals last Friday, hoping to launch its first VOD trial by the end of the second quarter. While Cox [...]

Turner set to tackle asset management in new plant While Turner Entertainment Group prepares to break ground on its new digitally oriented broadcast facility, Suzanne Donino's pet project--media asset management--still [...]

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, [...]

Promoting the bedding behavior of Soap Opera Land's grand dames and dukes, Columbia TriStar's proposed 24-hour cable network, Soap City, carries the tagline 'This town never sleeps...alone.' That's the work [...]

NEW YORK -- A&E Network will kick off 'Child Stars Week' on Biography starting Labor Day, Sept. 6, with the world premiere of Ron Howard: Hollywood's Favorite Son. It will [...]

* 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 [...]

A broadcast network of nothing but Universal Studios movies? A Dick Wolf crime channel? Both are possibilities that Bob Wright sees in the new NBC Universal. The NBC chairman wants [...]

WITH THE LAUNCH of the next generation of video-on-demand packages, including free VOD, drawing near, basic networks are falling into three camps: those that willingly offer free content, those pushing [...]

Ameritech Corp. has delayed plans to build cable systems in five Chicago suburbs, claiming that it can't compete because it can't offer Home Box Office and Cinemax. The reason: Continental [...]

It seems that politics does indeed make strange bedfellows: Fox News Channel has announced plans to air three Democratic presidential debates in the coming months. Last week, Fox and the [...]

NEW YORK--Come January, contestants won't be able to win $5,000 of Ben Stein's money any more. Win Ben Stein 's Money, cable's first Emmy Award-winning game show, will depart Comedy [...]

I, Claudius - the award-winning 13-part miniseries that debuted 26 years ago - will re-air on Trio starting April 21, at 8 p.m. Trio's broadcast of the 1976 classic will [...]

Spurned PBS veteran Louis Rukeyser is joining CNBC to host a new weekly show, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street. He'll even be returning to some PBS stations. Rukeyser, 69, ended his [...]

The interactive channel MTV2 is to run its first piece of non-music-related advertising with a three-minute film for Sony PlayStation. The film, 'dinner', which has been created by TBWA\ London, [...]

Making a strong move into cyberspace, Viacom Inc. is forming an Internet division that will include online sites that its MTV Networks unit is creating for kids and music, officials [...]

Broadcast and cable news networks exhaustively covered the release o prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report or President Clinton last week. And that may be just the start. 'We're planning live, comprehensive [...]

NEW YORK -- Looking to capitalize on one of its key brands, Cable News Network is expanding Moneyline with Lou Dobbs to one hour and broadening its coverage to include [...]

Fox News Channel will begin delivering a fully scrambled signal to its cable affiliates starting in mid-June. The signal will use General Instrument's VideoCipher II Plus encryption technology with FNC [...]

Time Warner Cable is getting ready to join the digital dance. The long-awaited foray into digital by the cable industry's second-largest operator will begin in mid-June in Austin, Texas, with [...]

News Corp.-owned Fox Kids Network will launch a French service Nov. 15 on the Canalsatellite digital DTH service. Fox Kids France will transmit via Astra 1F 15 hours a day [...]

Game Show Network is debuting its own kids versions of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune as part of a Friday-night block of children's and family-oriented programming that it is premiering [...]

Cox is looking to its past to build its future in new media. Cox Communications Inc., perhaps more than any other cable operator, has a chance to succeed in producing [...]

HONG KONG - Rupert Murdoch stepped up plans last week for the Japanese television business with an announcement that News Corp.'s Star TV programming group plans to launch a direct-to-home [...]

Time Warner's HBO will launch HBO Poland on one of the country's cable systems in July, according to Slawomir Suss, managing director of HBO Poland. The channel hopes to be [...]

Owners opt to concentrate on interactive shopping Web site Faced with cash and MSO carriage obstacles, owners of The Ecology Channel (TEC) have put their cable network plans on hold [...]

I smell a rat, and it's gnawing around Ameritech Corp.'s Swiss-cheese-like announcement on how it now has to delay building cable systems in five Chicago suburbs because 'today's laws favor [...]

MSO is backing new music video network, The Music Zone It looks as though longtime sparring partners Tele-Communications Inc. and Viacom could be gearing up for battle in the music [...]

C/NET: The Computer Network is developing several shows and plans to grow into a 24-hour cable channel by 1997. Kevin Wendle, president of C/NET Television, says C/NET is planning three [...]

This week CNN will announce a new real-time information service using existing technology for delivery to personal computers. The service will transmit CNN's video newsfeed and additional information to the [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- Proclaiming itself the first compressed basic network, The Television Food Network announced that it will convert from an analog to a digital signal on July 1. TVFN [...]

Jazz, largely ignored by existing cable music networks, will be getting a channel of its own, Black Entertainment Television announced last week. BET President Robert Johnson also announced at a [...]