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Intellectual Property Breakfast Club Featured Clash of Views Between Broadcasters and Cable Companies

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2010 – BroadbandBreakfast.com on Friday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Intellectual Property Breakfast Club event on May 18, 2010: “New Transmission Consent Battles and Licensing Video Content.” The event included key industry officials from the cable, broad

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Disney’s Economic Analysis of Cable Video Programming Costs Flawed, Argues Time Warner Cable

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2, 2010 — An economic analysis of cable television prices and video programming costs filed with the Federal Communications Commission this April by the Walt Disney Company can’t be trusted because it considers the wrong factors in its analysis, according to a group of economic c

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Discovery, Ovation and Starz Side With Cable and Telcos Against Broadcasters In Retrans Consent Fee Dispute

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2010 — The rules governing the terms on which cable and telecommunications companies get to retransmit broadcasters’ signals definitely need an update, said a group of independent programmers in several recent filings with the Federal Communications Commission. The filings, f

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Retrans-Consent: Be Careful What You Ask For!

With the recent battle between Cablevision and Disney over Retransmission Consent in New York regarding WABC-TV carriage on Cablevisions 3.1 million subscribers, and thereby producing a coalition of Cable Providers to petition the FCC to intervene in negotiations, is akin to the saying: (be careful