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Analyze This:
Harbinger wants to sell its remaining 14% of
Immarsat.
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Rules & Regs:
FCC voted to reform the Universal Service Fund;
NCTA approves as does
Sen. Jay Rockefeller.
ACA's
Matt Polka cautions the FCC to be judicious, though, as it changes the rules.
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Folks: Rumors were right,
Keith Olbermann is joining
Current TV as Chief News Officer (with arrest rights?) and producer/host of a nightly prime time news and commentary show later this year. Under
CEO Mark Rosenthal, the channel founded by
Al Gore and
Joel Hyatt has been moving strongly into original fare matched with the user-generated topical programming. Olbermann will also have an equity stake. As Gore noted in a press conference, Olbermann certainly fits the founding desire “to engage viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming.” ---
CBS shook up its management of news and sports naming
Jeff Fager Chairman of CBS News and
David Rhodes, ex of
Bloomberg TV, as president of
CBS News;
Sean McManus was promoted to Chairman,
CBS Sports.
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Comments: Cable ops in New Jersey contributed some $9.2M to help subsidize cable service for low income HHs ... but, as
Gov. Chris Christie said,
"To have the taxpayers of New Jersey pay for cable TV, I mean
seriously, has cable TV become a constitutional right now that we are
going to pay for, in this time of budget constraints?" So, anyone think
refunds are on the way? Not a chance ... details
here. ---
Scott Kurnit, CEO of
AdKeeper and long time media maven, tells
BusinessInsider's
Henry Blodgett why "
Hulu is screwed"
here. It's a JV.
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Online: Excellent recap
here: “The 2010 US Digital Year in Review” from
comScore.
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Programming: Wow ...
FOX had over 111M viewers Sunday night and
Rupert’s Mom,
Elisabeth, turned 102.
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Up, Over & Down There: UK’s
Competition Commission wants to investigate why
BSkyB makes “excess profits” on its movie deals.•
