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DirecTV May Drop The Weather Channel

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DirecTV may be angling to drop The Weather Channel from its lineup, prompting The Weather Channel to launch a PR campaign to try and stop it. The carriage deal between [...]


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CBS, Time Warner Cable Carriage Beef Escalates

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After weeks of quietly working to hash out a new carriage deal, CBS and Time Warner Cable are no closer to reaching an agreement than they were on the day [...]

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We Can Work It Out: DISH Network Not Spoiling to Fight Disney

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While the expiration of their carriage deal with ABC and ESPN is looming on the horizon, DISH Network executives said they aren’t spoiling for a fight with Walt Disney Co.

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Touchdown: Time Warner Cable Cuts Deal to Carry NFL Network

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After an eight-year stalemate that kept the National Football League’s in-house television network grounded in key markets like New York and Los Angeles, Time Warner Cable on Friday agreed to [...]

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NFL Network Scores Carriage Deal With Cablevision

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After years of being all but shut out of the nation’s top market, NFL Network has established a beach head in the greater New York DMA, inking a multi-year agreement [...]

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Hook ’em Horns: Longhorn Network Rustles Up First Carriage Deal

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With mere hours to go before it goes live, ESPN’s Longhorn Network at long last is beginning to make some headway with distributors, cutting a deal with Verizon’s FiOS TV. [...]