Verizon Raises Dividend and ABC v. TWC in Lincoln
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Analyze This: Part 2 of
SNL Kagan’s
Tim Doyle interview with
Sezmi’s
Phil Wiser is
here. Wiser claims, “We don't need to have 10 million households to be wildly successful; we can do it with a number much smaller than that. Given the efficiencies we built
into our systems, we could be successful with a million subscribers or less.” ---
Verizon raised its 1/4ly dividend to 48.75¢/share or +2.6%
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Folks: Kudos to
NBC’s
Tom Costello for exercising “an abundance of caution” and waiting until the
Discovery hostage incident was over to broadcast the fact NBC had talked with
James J.
Lee during the crisis. ---
Chuck Davis, CEO of
Fandango and EVP of
Comcast Interactive, has been elected to the board of
shop.org, a unit of the
Nat’l Retail Federation.
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Up in the Sky:
Euroconsult says global maritime satellite market has passed
the $1B revenue mark ... with growth to come from broadband.
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Heads Up:
AllThingsD reports the
New Yorker is planning in-depth stories on
AOL by
Ken Auletta and
Mark Zuckerberg by
Jose Antonio Vargas. ---
Communications Technology named
Sunflower Broadband as system of the year ... nice outgoing gift for
Patrick Knorr.
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Retail:
DivX is
supporting the new VOD service from European retailer
Media Markt.
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Retrans & Renewals:
ABC affiliate,
Citadel’s KLKN-TV in Lincoln, NE, yanked its signal from the local
TWC system. --- Meanwhile,
Disney and TWC are still (apparently) talking in NY.
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Programming:
TNT renewed
Memphis Beat (thanks!). ---
U-Verse added
Estrella TV nationwide.
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Over There:
BSkyB says it has 3M HD subs as it added its 50th HD channel.
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Rumors: Is
AT&T after
C&W Worldwide?
