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• Pioneering Sports Machine host George Michael dies at 70

  
  TV Squad — Authority: 694
  One of televisions biggest sports names long before people cared about the people who talked about sports on television has died. George Michael , the sportscaster and longtime host of the nationally syndicated George Michaels Sports Machine , succumbed to a long battle with cancer on Thursday. To call him ahead ...
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• Comcast Says Your Getting Throttled Was Only Worth $16

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 577
  No matter how much trouble you had, your maximum claim amount under the terms of the settlement that Comcast agreed to is $16. I suppose that’s better than a sharp stick in the eye, but if you were trying to send, or receive something important, it’s not much. The full story comes from PC Magazine - Comcast ...
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• A resolution for Hollywood in the new year: Get home video moving again

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: General Electric (GE) , Time Warner (TWX) , Walt Disney (DIS) , Viacom (VIA) , Comcast ClA (CMCSA) , News CorpB (NWS) , Media World The DVD market continues to disappoint. Theres an article over at The Hollywood Reporter discussing the industry and its sorry state. According to the piece, ...
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• Comcast Gives Burke a Contract Extension

  
  Media Decoder — Authority: 714
  Comcasts Steve Burke, the man who will be charged with integrating NBC Universal into the cable company, received a five-year contract extension.
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• Everybody loves Steve Burke, even Warren Buffett

  
  MediaFile — Authority: 580
  When news of Comcast’s bid for NBC Universal broke on Sept 30 most of the spotlight focused on Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts. But as the weeks dragged on, some of that spotlight began to shine on his number 2, Stephen Burke, chief operating officer and a former senior Disney executive. As we now know ...
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• Apple TV + CBS + Walt Display = Death of Cable?

  
  DisplayBlog — Authority: 447
  CBS and Walt Disney have shown interesting in distributing its content via Apple’s future subscription plan. If true this could mean a massive blow to cable, satellite and any other means of distributing TV content. Walt Disney would make programs available from ABC, The Disney Channel and ABC Family networks. CBS ...
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• Beware of Comcasts Growing Power

  
  by Ron Miller — Authority: 117
  Image via Wikipedia With the purchase of NBC Universal, Comcasts power grows unabated.It may be up to cities and towns building their own municipal networks tofind a way to fight that growing hegemony. Read my view on DaniWeb .
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• Interview with Craig Aaron from Free Press (podcast)

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 160
  By Jim Swanson Progressive News Daily Running Time 32:34 The high profile merger between Comcast and NBC Universal sounds like business as usual to most people. Ah, another media merger. So why should I care? For one, if the merger goes through, cable bills can go way up and, depending on which cable ...
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• Interview with Craig Aaron - Senior Program Director at FreePress.net

  
  Progressive News Radio — Authority: 103
  by Jim Swanson Progressive News Radio Running Time - 32:24 The high profile merger between Comcast and NBC Universal sounds like business as usual to most people. Ah, another media merger. So why should I care? For one, if the merger goes through, cable bills can go way up and, depending on which cable ...
  4 days ago

• Hulu to stream reality show internationally, incessantly

  
  Engadget — Authority: 836
  See this forlorn-looking male model? Hes got a lot on his mind. Really, hes just like the rest of us -- a starry-eyed dreamer whos headed to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. To this end, hes shacked up with four fellow photogenic wannabes in a Hollywood crash pad where theyll be webcast 24-7 for Simon Fullers ...
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• Hulu to stream reality show internationally, incessantly

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  See this forlorn-looking male model? He’s got a lot on his mind The rest is here: Hulu to stream reality show internationally, incessantly
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• Zune HD Twitter app updated, dirty words no longer censored

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 163
  Microsoft promised us it would remove the silly content censorship from the Zune HD Twitter app ASAP, and here we are a day later with version 1.1, which lets you see all the schoolyard swears you could ever want. High five, assholes. The rest is here: Zune HD Twitter app updated, dirty words no longer censored
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• Will the Comcast-NBC merger mean stepped-up anti-piracy efforts?

  
  Free UTOPIA! — Authority: 120
  If regulators sign off on it, the nation’s largest cable company will end up with a significant foothold in both the broadcast media and movie industries. Overnight, a content distributor becomes a content producer. Pre-merger, Comcast had little incentive to play along with the copyright cop ambitions of the RIAA ...
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• NBC Scrubs Poll

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 446
  NBCs Bravo - home to the  " Real Housewives" franchise - actually paid for a poll on the White House gatecrashing Sahali train wrecks to see if paying the couple to star in "Real Housewives Of Washington" would have a nasty trickle-up effect to the Peacock Network . After all was said and done, the bottom line ...
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• YouTube By Subscription? Will You Bite?

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 577
  I can’t say that I’ve seen anything on YouTube that is anything more than mildly entertaining, but my daughter watches the vignettes of some young guy on there that puts out comedic stuff with great regularity so she might want to pay for a subscription. It is certainly being discussed, which is odd, because ...
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• Reuters Breaking Views: A Shrewd Deal for Comcast

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  The deal with NBC Universal looks to have been structured in a way that should, if Comcast is willing to be patient and NBC performs, pay for itself.
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• More Conspiratorial Nonsense about the Comcast-NBC Deal

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 549
  As I pointed out here before (see, “ And so the Comcast-NBC Merger Hysteria Begins: Help Me Document It! “), every time a media merger is proposed we hear all sorts of silly Chicken Little predictions of impending doom as well as preposterous conspiracy theories about supposed nefarious schemes to take over the ...
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• NBC UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF ITS ANNUAL ‘STAND-UP FOR DIVERSITY’ COMIC SEARCH

  
  J!-ENT entertainment news pop culture TV music DVD Blu-ray reviews fashion celebrity USA Asia UK — Authority: 153
  COMEDIAN KEVIN SHEA WINS TALENT DEAL WITH NBC UNIVERSALUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – December 16, 2009 – Comedian-actor Kevin Shea took home top honors at NBC Universal’s sixth-annual “Stand-Up for Diversity” comedy search held December 8 at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, Calif. Hosted by ...
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• With White House crashers, NBC Universal makes decision ... to take a poll

  
  Tower Ticker — Authority: 622
  Whats worse than the fact that NBC Universal is still dithering over whether to cut ties to the couple that crashed last months White House state dinner? The fact that NBC Universal apparently doesnt have the capacity, standards or moral compass simply to decide not to include crashing boors Michaele and Tareq ...
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• Vid-Biz: YouTube, NBC Universal, Project Canvas

  
  NewTeeVee — Authority: 740
  Is YouTube Looking at a Subscription Model?; Google vice president of content partnerships David Eun said some full-length shows would not be available to YouTube under its current advertising model ( Reuters ), and Sky reportedly backed out of talks to put its shows on the video site because it would not allow ...
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