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| ESPN Eyes 2014, 2016 Olympic Games | NEW YORK, August 20: ESPN has plans to bid for the television rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, and would carry more live coverage, regardless of the time zone, than NBC traditionally has done.
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| Bennett Closes Raft of Broadcast Deals | LOS ANGELES, August 19: Bennett Media Worldwide has inked a range of international agreements, totaling more than 300 hours, for a number of its series, including the addition of five new markets for The MEN7 Show.
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| Laurence Fishburne to Lead CSI | LOS ANGELES, August 19: The Matrix actor Laurence Fishburne is taking on a lead role on CBS’s hit series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, replacing William Petersen, who announced his exit from the procedural crime drama earlier this summer.
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| MGM Options British Online Graphic Novel | LOS ANGELES, August 19: The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, a popular digital graphic novel from Factory Publishing, has been optioned by MGM Domestic Television Distribution for possible development into a series.
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| NBCU Cable Nets Get Olympics Boost | BEIJING, August 19: More than 196 million viewers have tuned in to NBC Universal’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics through the first ten days, scoring big numbers for its cable networks as well as NBC Nightly News and Today.
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| New Pairings Set for Iconoclasts | NEW YORK, August 18: Sundance Channel and Grey Goose Entertainment have unveiled the six new pairs on the roster for the fourth season of Iconoclasts, which will debut October 16 at 10 p.m.
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| Faith-Based Programming Block Set for CMT | IRVING, August 15: Country Music Television (CMT) and Faith Time have partnered to create a new religious programming block that will air on the music channel seven days a week from 4:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. beginning September 1.
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| BBTV to Begin Worldwide Rollout in 2009 | LOS ANGELES, August 15: Hip-hop entrepreneur Percy Miller, formerly known as Master P, is set to launch Better Black Television (BBTV), a family-friendly network that features positive programming aimed at an African-American audience.
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| Warner Bros. Delays Release of New Potter Film | BURBANK, August 15: Warner Bros. Pictures has moved the release date of the highly anticipated sixth installment in the Harry Potter franchise from this November to summer 2009, partly in response to the 100-day Hollywood writers’ strike.
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| Howard Stern Extends Contract with iN DEMAND | NEW YORK, August 14: Howard Stern and iN DEMAND Networks have secured an agreement to continue the Howard TV On Demand service through the end of 2010, as well as ramp up the Howard TV digital cable network’s original programming.
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| VH1 Launching New Programming | NEW YORK, August 14: VH1’s new original series Glam God with Vivica A. Fox and The Cho Show will premiere on August 21, the same day The Fabulous Life returns with all-new episodes.
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| HBO to Premiere True Blood | NEW YORK, August 14: True Blood, the new vampire series from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball, will debut its 12-episode first season on September 7 on HBO.
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| Paula Wagner Exits UA | LOS ANGELES, August 14: Paula Wagner is stepping down from her role as the CEO of United Artists, which she and Tom Cruise relaunched in partnership with MGM in November 2006.
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| Plans in Place for NYTVF | NEW YORK, August 13: The fourth annual New York Television Festival (NYTVF) has unveiled the 36 selections for its independent pilot competition, along with the roster of media executives who will participate in the first-ever Industry Day panel series.
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| Albrecht Exits IMG | NEW YORK, August 13: After just 11 months, Chris Albrecht has exited as the president of IMG Global Media and is planning to relaunch his production outfit, Foresee Entertainment.
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| Liberty Media Eyes AOL Assets | NEW YORK, August 12: Liberty Media chairman John Malone has indicated that the company would consider swapping its stake in Time Warner for AOL’s dial-up business, though no such proposal has been made.
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| CBS Grows Cable Programming Unit | LOS ANGELES, August 12: CBS Paramount Network Television is ramping up its original programming operation for basic and pay-cable platforms, with Jim McKairnes being named senior VP of cable development and strategic planning.
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| PorchLight Takes On Holiday Film | LOS ANGELES, August 12: PorchLight Home Entertainment is set to release the feature film Together Again for the First Time on DVD this fall, with parent company PorchLight Entertainment securing the worldwide rights on all platforms to the Brownie Films production.
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| Lionsgate Reports Revenue, Profit Gains | SANTA MONICA, August 11: Lionsgate notched up revenues of $298.5 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, a 50-percent rise from its year-ago results, with a profit of $7.1 million compared to last year’s net loss of $53.1 million.
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| Revenues Up, Loss Narrowed at RHI | NEW YORK, August 8: RHI Entertainment, which recently completed its IPO, has reported second quarter revenues of $53.4 million, reflecting a 130-percent gain, and a smaller net loss of $5.8 million, as compared with $33 million in the comparable period last year.
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| Subscriber Growth, Revenue Gains at DIRECTV | EL SEGUNDO, August 7: The second quarter at The DIRECTV Group saw revenues increase by 16 percent on the same period last year to $4.81 billion, with a 2-percent increase in profit to $455 million, driven by subscriber gains at its platforms in the U.S. and Latin America.
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| Playboy Posts Q2 Loss | CHICAGO, August 6: Playboy Enterprises has released its second quarter results, with revenues down 14 percent to $73.4 million, and a loss of $2.1 million, as compared with the year-ago profit of $1.9 million.
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| Revenues Up 25 Percent for Liberty Global | ENGLEWOOD, August 6: For the second quarter, revenues at Liberty Global were $2.73 billion, 25-percent higher than the same period last year, with a net profit of $428 million, as compared with last year’s loss of $130 million.
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| News Corp. Delivers Profit Gains | NEW YORK, August 6: Fourth quarter net profit at News Corporation increased by 27 percent to $1.1 billion on revenues of $8.6 billion, reflecting a 17-percent rise on the year-ago period.
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| New Showrunners for Criminal Intent | NEW YORK, August 5: A new production team has been named for the eighth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which will premiere this November on USA Network with new cast member Jeff Goldblum.
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| WWE Releases Q2 Results | STAMFORD, August 5: While profit was stable at $7 million for the second quarter, World Wrestling Entertainment saw its revenues fall 6 percent to $129.7 million as compared with the year-ago period.
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| VSS Releases Annual Communications Forecast | NEW YORK, August 5: Private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) has forecast that broadcast TV will surpass newspapers as the largest ad medium in the U.S. this year, while Internet advertising will exceed broadcast TV in 2011.
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| GolTV in Contract Dispute with DISH | MIAMI/ENGLEWOOD, August 4: The Spanish- and English-language soccer channel GolTV has been removed from the DISH Network lineup, after the satellite platform and pay-TV network were unable to come to terms on a new contract.
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| Q2 Results Stable at CBS Corp. | NEW YORK, July 31: CBS Corporation has released its second-quarter results, with revenues and profit both up just 1 percent to $3.4 billion and $408 million, respectively, and announced a plan to sell off a slate of radio stations.
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| Eurocinema to Launch on DIRECTV | LOS ANGELES, July 30: The movie-on-demand service Eurocinema, which features European and other international films, will make its debut on the DIRECTV-on-Demand platform beginning August 1.
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| Viacom Q2 Revenues Up 21 Percent | NEW YORK, July 30: While revenues were up 21 percent to $3.86 billion, Viacom has reported a 6-percent fall in second-quarter profit to $407 million, compared to the year-ago period.
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| Comcast Q2 Results Released | PHILADELPHIA, July 30: Comcast Corporation posted an 11-percent rise in revenues to $8.5 billion for the second quarter, while net income gained 8 percent to $632 million.
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| Social-Expression Products Set for Fox Content | CENTURY CITY, July 29: Hallmark Cards has scored access to sound clips and iconography from Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising to develop a range of social expressions for hit properties such as 24, The Sound of Music, Planet of the Apes and Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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| SAG Board Backs Negotiators’ Demands | LOS ANGELES, July 28: Amid an internal power struggle, the Screen Actors Guild’s (SAG) national board has backed the efforts of the union’s negotiating team to secure jurisdiction over online content and better residuals for the reuse of new media.
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| Five Nominees to Co-Host Emmys | LOS ANGELES, July 28: All five nominees from the category of outstanding reality/competition host—Dancing with the Stars’ Tom Bergeron, Survivor’s Jeff Probst, Deal or No Deal’s Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum of Project Runway and American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest—will host the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
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| MGM Launches Digital Channel for U.S. Broadcast Market | LOS ANGELES, July 28: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios today unveiled THIS TV, a 24/7 linear channel featuring films and TV shows from its library—as well as kids’ fare courtesy of Cookie Jar Entertainment—that can be launched by local stations seeking to generate ad revenue from their allotted digital spectrum capacity.
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| New Fantasy Series Set for November Launch | SAN DIEGO, July 25: The epic fantasy series from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios previously known as Wizard’s First Rule will officially be launched as Legend of the Seeker, with new cast members added, the weekend of November 1.
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| RHI Preps New Mini-Series for Spike | NEW YORK, July 23: Next month, Spike will present the latest in its Spike Guy Movies strand with RHI Entertainment’s Kung Fu Killer, featuring Kill Bill stars David Carradine and Daryl Hannah.
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| Golden Girls Star Passes Away | LOS ANGELES, July 23: Estelle Getty, who played Sophia on The Golden Girls, the hit sitcom that ran on NBC from 1985 to 1992, passed away early yesterday. She was 84.
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| WWE Renames Filmed-Entertainment Division | STAMFORD, July 22: World Wrestling Entertainment is renaming its Los Angeles-based subsidiary WWE Films as WWE Studios, reflecting the division’s mandate to develop entertainment across theatrical features, direct-to-DVD movies, scripted TV movies and series and reality programming.
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| NBC Schedules “InFront” for April | BEVERLY HILLS, July 22: NBC will again present its fall season grid to advertisers ahead of the traditional upfront season, announcing plans to host an “InFront” event in April 2009.
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| Bravo Bolsters Schedule | NEW YORK, July 21: Bravo has unveiled its lineup of new and returning programs, along with a raft of projects in development, including an hour-long competition series from Sarah Jessica Parker and Magical Elves, tentatively titled American Artist.
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| SCI FI Unveils Development Slate, New Business Line | BEVERLY HILLS, July 21: SCI FI has a raft of new projects in development, including an original mini-series with Bryan Singer, and has formed SCI FI Ventures, a portfolio of businesses covering gaming, publishing, merchandising, digital, wireless and the youth market.
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| Appeals Court Overturns CBS Indecency Fine | NEW YORK, July 21: A federal appeals court today overturned the $550,000 fine levied against CBS Corporation by the Federal Communications Commission for Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl.
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