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CC Sabathia Is Dwarfed by Scott Van Pelt in ESPN's New SportsCenter Ad It's all about the stripes

CC Sabathia is a large man, but he's not technically wearing a fat suit. That latter fact—and not just his slimming New York Yankee pinstripes—gives Sabathia the advantage over the…

April 17, 2013, 12:02 PM EDT

Syfy's Transmedia Gamble Defiance Gets Off on the Right Foot 200,000 pre-orders for game

Easily NBCUniversal’s biggest cable launch this year, the $100 million-plus science fiction series Defiance bowed last night to 2.73 million total viewers. That puts its far ahead of the season-to-date…

April 16, 2013, 4:01 PM EDT

Comcast Begins Encrypting Basic Cable Passive theft just got a lot harder

Comcast has decided to start encrypting its basic cable signal. If you have a cable box, this will mean absolutely nothing to you, but if you run the coaxial cable…

April 15, 2013, 3:50 PM EDT

ESPN, SEC to Form New Sports Net Conference boasts some of college football’s most valuable franchises

ESPN and the Southeastern Conference on Tuesday will formally announce the launch of a new sports network devoted to the 14 member schools. In a press conference scheduled to take place…

April 15, 2013, 3:48 PM EDT

Legacy Cable Operators in Austin Are Terrified of Google Fiber Roughly 70 times faster

The power dynamic will not shift overnight, but the newly announced launch of Google Fiber in the tech-savvy gulch that is Austin, Texas, has legacy cable operators shaking in their…

April 14, 2013, 11:06 PM EDT

March Madness Boosts CBS, Time Warner Stock NCAA tourney networks secured $875 million in ad revenue

Louisville’s Rick Pitino was perhaps the biggest winner in this year’s NCAA Men’s Div. I Basketball Tournament, becoming the first head coach to win a National Championship at two different…

April 11, 2013, 5:57 PM EDT

Upfront Preview: IFC's Offerings Include Comedies From Will Ferrell and Ben Stiller Large development slate features 3 pilots and 8 scripts

As its big sister net AMC celebrates its successes, comedy cabler IFC is headed into its 2013 upfront—the first without Evan Shapiro, who now works with Participant Media on its…

April 10, 2013, 4:43 PM EDT

Austin Is Next Market to Host Google Fiber Ultra-high-speed Internet, 200-channel TV service rolls out in 2014

Google on Tuesday confirmed that it has selected Texas’ capital city as the next market for its high-speed Internet service. Just days after rumors began to circulate that Austin was the…

April 9, 2013, 3:14 PM EDT

GSN Upfront: Apolo Ohno to Host New Minute to Win It, More American Bible Challenge Religion-focused quiz shows and competitions part of network's unscripted blueprint

Everything old is new again at the Game Show Network. At the Sony Club this morning, the cable channel said it has green-lighted a new version of Minute to Win…

April 9, 2013, 1:02 PM EDT

Strong Showing for Mad Men Premiere Season 6 opener draws near-record 3.4 million viewers

Sunday night’s death- and goulash-soaked season premiere of AMC’s Mad Men held its own in a crowded 9 p.m.-11 p.m. time slot, drawing a near-record 3.4 million viewers. Per Nielsen live-plus-same-day…

April 8, 2013, 5:22 PM EDT

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