He initially considered creating a single-genre cable TV network but recognized that that concept faced significant competition from crime-related programming such as prime-time newsmagazines.
Evan Shapiro, who joined Participant in May after serving as president of IFC and the Sundance Channel, will head up the new cable TV network, Berk said.
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He is creating satellite companies--a fashion design house, a cable TV network for high schools, restaurants and bars, a mail-order catalog for youth-focused merchandise--which he hopes to build and then sell.
Comedy Central took on the science fiction sitcom - which is set on a spaceship in the 31st century - in 2007, after its repeats on American cable TV network Adult Swim found a large cult following.
William Moses seemed to have the right impulse when he and silent partner Jonathan Katch launched the Santa Monica, California-based Recovery Network in 1994--a cable TV network to help people deal with substance abuse, as well as family violence and depression.
The criminal underworld and inter-generational conflict of The Sopranos is to be beamed to mobile phones, following Cingular Wireless ' announcement Thursday that it has inked an exclusive multi-year deal with premium cable TV network HBO to send video clips of hit television shows to mobile phones.
Ivi tried to argue it was a cable-TV network for the purposes of these retransmission rights, because an exception to the Copyright Act gives cable operators the right to retransmit if they pay fees set by the Copyright Royalty Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.
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Also, this past year has witnessed the much publicised arrival of a US version of the British TV series Queer as Folk on a major pay TV cable network.
Those tremors of change can also be seen in the awards show that celebrates the efforts of daytime TV as the 39th annual Daytime Emmys gets ready to air Saturday on cable rather than network TV.
Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the committee, said on my TV One Cable Network show, "Washington Watch, " that everything should be on the table.
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In an interview on my TV One Cable Network Sunday morning news show, "Washington Watch, " I talked with the top enlisted officer serving in Afghanistan, Command Sgt.
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In addition, satellite TV providers like DirecTV and Dish Network continue to lag the cable TV companies in their ability to offset program cost increases by selling their customers increasingly faster broadband services, per The Wall Street Journal.
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But from a borrower's point of view, cable was junk and network TV was blue chip.
Al Jazeera has acquired Current TV, the cable television network founded by former US Vice President Al Gore.
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The rumors are true: Keith Olbermann is joining Current TV, the cable network founded by former vice president Al Gore.
According to Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh's "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, " Phillips missed the 1980-81 season while in rehab for addiction issues.
When CNN International first began supplying news to Malaysia's still-tiny cable network, Mega TV, it was on a two-hour tape-delayed basis, during which time stories were vetted to be sure they did not breach ethnic, religious or political mores.
Then a three-season reality TV stint on the cable network's Newlyweds, made her--and to a lesser degree her husband, Nick Lachey--household names.
When it comes to mediums, Spanish language network TV and cable television registered the biggest gains, up 24% and 13%, respectively, for the first half of the year.
So it's conceivable that more advances will come on a cable, you know, your TV provider network, than you see on your Internet in the home.
In Privileged, another TV show developed for that cable network from an Alloy-created book, Sage Baker gets sick after jealous gal pals in Palm Beach spike her drink.
Were it not for a squealer, the Drug Enforcement Administration might never have broken up a drug delivery service that called itself the Cartoon Network (after the cable TV channel).
While the upside is vast, Netflix must compete for this growing demographic with established cable and satellite operators that offer streaming and pay-TV services like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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In his defense, Ergen will argue his satellite TV network will generate competition against cable companies, nearly all of which are local monopolies in their own right.
It also locked down a deal with Fox that covers local broadcasts, cable TV networks and brings a number of the network's shows to Xfinity streaming apps and services on other platforms.
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Skoll and Participant Media CEO Jim Berk announced Monday that Participant is purchasing two cable TV channels and will launch a Participant TV network in the summer of 2013, focusing on viewers age 18 to 34.
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Time Warner Cable is offering a live TV streaming app and Dish Network acquired Blockbuster to enter the streaming arena.
In 1995, Malone, 66, turned to Diller when he needed to pass on control of his Silver King Communications, the parent company of TV shopping network HSN, due to cable regulations.
SiloconDust let us kown that it would be the first to certify a live TV tuner as a DLNA Digital Media Server, easily enabling premium cable TV to more devices with its existing HDHomeRun Prime network CableCARD tuner.
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