TV News: White paper butts heads with FCC broadband plan — Going against the grain of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, the Open Mobile Video Coalition, which represents nearly 900 broadcasters, has released a white paper urging TV stations to “move quickly in supporting mobile digital TV services.”
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Org urges TV stations to go mobile
TV News: ABC ends talks with Paula Abdul — It’s a tale of two wildly popular — but equally controversial — women.
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Is Sarah Palin close to a TV deal?
TV News: Former Fox exec new VP of drama development — Former Fox exec Beth Miyares has joined CBS Television Studios as a vice president of drama development.
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Beth Miyares joins CBS TV Studios
TV News: Based on Yale experiment, picture draws 3.4 million to France 2 — A Gallic documentary about a fake TV quiz show in which contestants electrocute rivals to punish their wrong answers caused a media storm this week.
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‘Game’ fails to electrify French viewers
TV News: MTI in talks for musical adaptation of TV show — Tuner licensing company Music Theater Intl. is in talks with creators and producers of “Glee” for a stage adaptation of the buzzed-about FOX skein.
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‘Glee’ license takes the stage
TV News: Internal emails has companies on spin control — The release of hundreds of pages of documents in Viacom’s suit against YouTube had both sides on spin control, not so much to push their arguments, but to mitigate the impact of the release of internal documents and emails that execs at both companies never thought would see the light of day.
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Revealing docs emerge in Viacom, YouTube spat
TV News: NBC casting guru steps into consultant position — Starz Media has tapped longtime NBC casting guru Marc Hirschfeld to serve as a casting consultant for Starz programming.
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Starz taps Hirschfeld for casting gig
TV News: New documents raise issues in legal tangle — Viacom on Thursday claimed that YouTube knew full well that much of its content violated copyright but instead turned the other way.
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Viacom, YouTube lawsuit heats up
TV News: CNN veteran tapped for Sunday news program — Longtime CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour is ankling the cable news net to join ABC as the new anchor of “This Week.”
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Amanpour to anchor ABC’s ‘This Week’
TV News: Actor also toplined NBC’s ‘Daniel Boone’ series — Fess Parker, who toplined such Disney classics as “Davy Crockett” and the NBC series “Daniel Boone” died in the Santa Ynez Valley on Thursday. He was 85.
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‘Davy Crockett’ star Fess Parker dies
