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Week of Dec 25, 2010

Headlines Archive - Week of December 25, 2010
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TV Dominates As Live Medium, Cord-Cutting Disputed
MediaPost Daily News | December 30, 2010
Research from Turner Broadcasting - from an end-of-the-year report on television - notes that total TV viewing, in terms of the average number of viewing hours per week per person, was 33.9 hours for November. Live viewing was 31.7 hours - or 93.5% of total TV viewing.
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Connected TV Transforming Business of Television
Rapid TV News | December 30, 2010
In its report, Futurescape sees connected TV as providing a way for device manufacturers to effect a business model transformation from products to services. It exemplifies this transition by highlighting how Samsung spent a figure approaching $70 million marketing its Internet TV apps in 2010, including a series of international competitions.
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LG to Offer Smart TV Internet Set-top Box
PCWorld | December 30, 2010
LG Electronics will show at next week's International Consumer Electronics Show a set-top box that delivers Internet content and applications found on LG Smart TVs to televisions without those features.
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Astral Ups Access to Disney and Popular Specialty Services on TV and Online
mediacaster | December 28, 2010
Subscribers of The Movie Network (TMN), HBO Canada, Family Channel and Playhouse Disney now have access to English-language movies and series from these networks as part of the Videotron illico on Demand service, at no extra cost, Astral Media announced.
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Time Warner Cable and Sinclair Spar
Reuters | December 28, 2010
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc said it has been unable to reach a programming agreement with Time Warner Cable Inc, meaning millions of homes could lose some of their local stations on New Year's Eve.
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Minorities Over-Index in Multiplatform TV Viewing
MediaPost Daily News | December 27, 2010
The Horowitz study, based on a survey of 1,000 broadband users across the entire United States with Internet at home, found that 48% of Asian broadband users watch TV content online, followed by Hispanic broadband users at 46% and African-American and white broadband users at 35% each.
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2014 Screen Futures: 40% of TVs Will Have Net Connections
MediaPost Daily News | December 27, 2010
In five years, almost 40% of televisions produced for the U.S. market will have at least one TV set in the home with Internet connections and services.
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Most and Least Popular Shows of 2010
The Daily Beast | December 27, 2010
It is hardly a surprise that the year's most watched show was Fox's American Idol, nor is it that CBS is the most watched broadcast network in terms of total viewers. What is surprising, however, is that of the 20 programs that have the highest overall rating in terms of total viewership (what is known as P2+) for live and same-day ratings, CBS dominated with 13 shows.
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Business Cable Primed for Hefty Gains
New York Post | December 26, 2010
While viewers of the three business cable networks may be feeling a bit better today than a year ago - thanks to the 10 percent plus gain in the S&P 500 index in 2010 over last year - those producing TV's daily dose of business babble have a right to be downright giddy.
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