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DirecTV reassures Golf Channel viewers, for now

It's not exactly a retransmission dispute, but DirecTV (Nasdaq: DTV ) is looking for ways to control programming costs and many of those looks have been in the direction of Comcast (Nasdaq:

More retransmission unrest: Time Warner Cable fights Smith, Chambers Communications disses Dish

Retransmission is becoming like a hockey game. Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC-WI ) and Sinclair Broadcast Group have riveted everyone's attention with their center ice fisticuffs but peripheral fights

Dish Network ups telecom service game, acquires Liberty-Bell Telecom

Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH ) has made its biggest move yet in furthering its presence in the telecom industry by making a bid to acquire Liberty-Bell Telecom, a Denver-based CLEC. By acquiring

Advance retreats on Discovery investment while Sky Angel fights for programming

Privately held newspaper and magazine powerhouse Advance Publications, Discovery Communications' (Nasdaq: DISCA ) biggest shareholder, has sold $500 million worth of preferred stock back to the cable

Chambers Communications stations could go dark on Dish Network

Regional cable operator Chambers Communications' local ABC TV affiliates may be the next program suppliers to learn that Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH ) takes a hard stance when it comes to

iPad growing in importance as 'second screen TV'

The frighteningly popular iPad is quickly emerging as this generation's portable television, with programmers and, importantly, service providers rushing to make their services available via the

Dish Network prepared to take TV everywhere

Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH ) claims it has upped the ante in the TV Everywhere space via a combo of its Dish Remote Access application and a Sling-enabled receiver. The Dish TV Everywhere play does

New Dish TV Everywhere play works on laptops, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry phones

Satellite operator Dish Network has launched what it's calling the first "true TV Everywhere" offering. Subscribers with a Sling-enabled device like the Sling Adapter--a small placeshifting device

Cohen to government: Leave the Internet alone

Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA ), like the corporate behemoth it is, is fighting multiple battles on multiple fronts. The company has sent COO Steve Burke to New York City to sort out the problems with NBC

Verizon winning, Google losing in video competition

Apparently cord cutting is taking a beating--at least when it comes to Google TV (Nasdaq: GOOG )--while more conventional wireline-based TV entertainment competition is taking it to the cable