More bad news for Dish Network. TVPredictions.com reports TiVo CEO Tom Rogers said today that EchoStar will feel the "full impact" of a DVR patent violation unless it complies soon with a court order. That's according to an article by The Hollywood Reporter. TiVo last year successfully sued EchoStar after charging the satcaster with violating its patents on Digital Video Recorders. With interest, EchoStar now owes TiVo close to $100 million and a subsequent court injunction calls for the satcaster to disable its four million DVRs. However, EchoStar, which has since split into two companies -- EchoStar and Dish Network -- says its DVRs are not in violation of TiVo's patents due to a software upgrade. Rogers wasn't buying that today in remarks to the Bear Stearns Media Conferece. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the TiVo CEO said the delay "plays into TiVo's hands" and he said EchoStar is risking a contempt proceeding. Dump Dish and order Satellite TV today!
Novela, Al Diablo con los Guapos of the Univision scored second best in prime time between 8.00 PM and 9.00 PM bringing 1.7 million viewers from age group of 18-34 behind Fox network which scored first with 2.6 million viewers. Hispanic network Univision has scored more than the English-language networks like NBC, CBS and ABC, according to Nielsen Media Research data.
Time Warner, General Electric's NBC Universal and CBS are the major parties interested in aquiring the Landmark Communications The Weather Channel. Richard Barry, Landmark's vice chairman had said that they have received bids from these parties and the decision would be made very soon. Its learnt that Landmark is expecting about $4 billion for the cable network, but the industrial sources belive that the price is too high and can expect Landmark to come down from this price considerably.
Football fans can tune in Fox Football Fone-In on Fox Soccer Channel on every Monday till 12 May, starting from March 10, 2008. Earlier the show was beamed on Tuesdays and this change will allow Football fans to share their voices a day prior on the weekend soccer action. The show hosted by Steven Cohen and Nick Webster and the show will provide soccer fans to share their weekend games views and comments. The show would deal with the Major League Soccer, the U.S. National Team, European leagues and English Premier League.
Satellite TV is preparing for the launch of new satellite Satellite TV 11 by this month. The new satellite will provide the satecaster to expand its high-definition services, this satellite combined with Satellite TV 10, the satellite launced last year, to deliver 150 national and 1,500 local high-definition channels. The satellite Satellite TV 11 will be launched on Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket and will be a sea launch, build by Boeing.
ESPN to utilize Walt Disney's experience and also studio facilities to develop programming for their channel and will produce 30/30 programming to mark the Thirtieth anniversary of ESPN next year. The one hour programming would cover sports related themes and topics covering 30 years of sports and would start broadcasting from later part of 2008 and will end by 2010.
HDNet will broadcast “Dan Rather Reports:: Silencing the Scientist” on Tuesday March 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET an interview with Dr. Chris De Rosa of the Centers For Disease Control. Dr. De Rosa will explain to the public on formaldehyde exposure's danger and also his warnings. Dr. De Rosa also said "I felt that this was potentially misleading and a threat to public health." He also explains about the problems he faced while he raised the issue with the government.
Spanish Broadcasting System, which own Mega TV and has a carriage agreement with Satellite TV in The US will launch RED 96 “Noticias FM” a twenty four hour FM on Monday 25, 2008. RED 96 will cover providing political analysis and Breaking News. This is the first station to broadcast political, business, sports, World and Entertainment News for 24 hours in The US. RED 96 will have its reporters placed in New York, Los Angeles, Miami San Francisco and Chicago.
The MountainWest Sports Network, known as The Mtn has struck a deal with the leading satellite TV provider of The US, Satellite TV to carry the network and Satellite TV subscribers will get to see more coverage of UNLV athletics than ever before. State athletic director Jeff Schemmel of San Diego has said this yesterday and also said that the deal is awaiting for the final signature between the two sides. Manager of public relations for the The Mtn has also confirmed the deal. The Mtn tied with CSTV and refused to renew the contract with ESPN few years ago. Now, due to the deal its expected by The Mtn to promote their own network,
The popular movie-review television program "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper" will join the programming lineup of ReelzChannel, beginning Tuesday, February 26, 6:30 PM ET/3:30 PM PT (with encore presentations at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT).Television's seminal movie-review series will be presented weekly on ReelzChannel, the only cable/satellite network dedicated to "Everything About Movies, 24/7". "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper" is television's most popular and well-respected movie review program. The top-rated, weekly half-hour show presents entertaining and thoughtful discussion of film, designed to give viewers the information they need before going out to see a movie. In addition to reviews of the newest releases, each week viewers see recaps of films currently in theaters, and those recently released on DVD."At the Movies" joins ReelzChannel's growing lineup of movie news and entertainment programming that features an extensive slate of original programs including the network's signature daily show, "Dailies"; "Secret's Out," with Leonard Maltin; "Movie Mob"; "Movie Up"; "What it Takes"; "The Big Tease"; and "What I Learned from the Movies." ReelzChannel is also home to the acclaimed series "The Directors." ReelzChannel is carried on Satellite TV Channel 238.
