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Jim Cantore Caught in the Middle of DirecTV-Weather Channel Dispute

By Chris Ariens on Jan. 28, 2014 - 3:36 PM

Jim Cantore got bumped from Dan Patrick’s show because of the Weather Channel carriage dispute with DirecTV. DirecTV owns Patrick’s show (which also airs on NBC Sports Network) and the company didn’t think it was ...

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LA Times’ Joe Flint on Twitter: Stop the Madness

By David Cohen on May. 9, 2011 - 4:18 PM

Hold off on awarding the Pulitzer Prize to Twitter, or to Sohaib Athar, the Pakistani man who unwittingly Tweeted details of the operation that led to the death of Osama Bin Laden, says Joe Flint in his Company Town blog. What he ...

DISH Dropping The Weather Channel

By Alex Weprin on May. 20, 2010 - 5:10 PM

As of midnight tonight, DISH Network will pull The Weather Channel from its lineup. As is often the case with disputes of this nature, the fight was over the network’s carriage fee. According to SNL Kagan, The Weather Channe ...

Brian Roberts: NBC News ‘The Single Most Awesome Asset’ Of Comcast Deal

By Alex Weprin on May. 11, 2010 - 4:42 PM

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts had some very kind words for NBC News at the 2010 Cable Show in Los Angeles Tuesday. Roberts was interviewed by former News Corp. COO Peter Chernin on stage at the show, and said NBC’s news division ...

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