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Fox Refuses Ads for Service to, Well, Kill Ads

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:26:02 CDT

How awesome would it be if your DVR automatically skipped commercials on shows recorded off the major networks? Probably not very awesome if you were one of those same networks, which is why they're outraged over the Dish Network's upcoming "Hopper," which, Dish announced last week, would be able to...

Dish Network Scraps AMC Channels

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:26:13 CDT

Dish Network is removing all four of AMC's cable channels because it says too few people are watching. Part of the problem, it says, is that the "very limited popular programming" on AMC is "available to our customers through multiple other outlets such as Amazon.com, iTunes, and Netflix," reports...

Sirius Seeks White Knight

Jim O'Neill — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:59:27 CST

With $175 million in debt due Tuesday and an unwanted takeover in the offing, Sirius XM Radio is hoping for help from Liberty Media, reports the Wall Street Journal . The satellite radio company is more than $3.25 billion in debt and nearly cashless, yet remains steadfast in its efforts...

Sirius XM Prepares to File for Bankruptcy

John Johnson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:37:12 CST

Sirius XM is preparing to file for bankruptcy this week, the New York Times reports. The satellite radio company, which has more than $5 billion in assets and a stable of personalities such as Howard Stern, is working with financial advisers to prepare the Chapter 11 filing. The development could...

Saint John Still Tainted by Senate Murk

Kevin Spak — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:12:00 CDT

With John McCain the presumptive Republican nominee, Democrats are rushing to expose chinks in the Arizona senator's saintly armor, Michael Scherer reports in Time . Though McCain talks tough about special interests, he has often appeared to have done their bidding. He once, for example, wrote a letter on behalf of...

TiVo Wins Patent Suit on Appeal

Rob Quinn — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:29:23 CST

TiVo's share price soared after an appeals court ruled that EchoStar Holding and Dish Network had been illegally using TiVo's "time-warp" recording software, the Wall Street Journal reports. TiVo has been trying to expand its business beyond set-top box making and into licensing its technology, which lets users pause, fast...

Advertisers Won't Get It on eBay

Colleen Barry — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:34:08 CDT

Cable networks are boycotting eBay's experiment in auctioning television airtime to ad houses, in a decision that could ground its nascent spin-off site. The networks protest that Online Media Exchange, which eBay claimed would reduce inefficiency, doesn't account for today's complex targeting and multimedia promotional packages.