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Today's Topics:
1. Shuttle launch attempt set for Saturday (Greg Williams)
2. LuxuriaMusic Says "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" to the Beatles on Dec.
8, 2006 (Greg Williams)
3. 2 geo sats going up tonight (Greg Williams)
4. Dual Missile Test Fails Off Hawaii (Williams, Gregory S.)
5. Faulty online mapping linked to wrong turn disaster
(Williams, Gregory S.)
6. NASA crushes lunar real estate industry (Williams, Gregory S.)
7. Top phone carriers say keeping satellite ties (George Antunes)
8. Cable's Hot December (George Antunes)
9. Microsoft FrontPage falls victim to blogging culture
(George Antunes)
10. FTC Gets Involved in Net Neutrality (George Antunes)
11. No End in Malone?s Game (George Antunes)
12. Specter Vows to Lift NFL TV Exemption (George Antunes)
13. Talk Show Host Indicted in Wife's Death (Williams, Gregory S.)
14. Popular 105.1 DJ Blaze Shot At Least 13 Times
(Williams, Gregory S.)
15. BitTorrent's Move From PCs to TVs (George Antunes)
16. Sirius Sees Benefits in Potential Merger With XM
(Williams, Gregory S.)
17. Google begins limited test of radio advertising
(Williams, Gregory S.)
18. Re: [Wildfeeds] 2 geo sats going up tonight (Dishnut)
19. Time Warner Sues DirecTV Over NFL Network Ads (George Antunes)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:00:33 -0500
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Shuttle launch attempt set for Saturday
To: Media News <[email protected]>
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Shuttle launch attempt set for Saturday
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_on_sc/space_shuttle
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Stymied once this week because of clouds,
NASA is skipping a Friday launch attempt for space shuttle Discovery
because of a dismal forecast and is looking toward the weekend.
Though the weather this weekend is predicted to be only slightly better,
NASA is aiming for an 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday launch attempt.
Discovery couldn't lift off Thursday night because of thick, low clouds
above the launch pad, which would have violated a NASA rule that
requires clouds be high enough so engineers can track the shuttle's
ascent. Each launch scrub costs NASA $500,000.
With only a 30 percent chance of acceptable weather Saturday, NASA
managers late Thursday discussed the possibility of waiting until Sunday
to try to launch, but opted to stay with Saturday, spokeswoman Jessica
Rye said. Officials wanted "a little more flexibility in their options,"
she said.
The odds for good weather improve to 40 percent on Sunday and Monday.
NASA gets the best opportunity for launching over the next several days
on Tuesday, with a 60 percent chance of decent weather.
The space agency can make two launch attempts in a row before standing
down a third day because of the need to refresh the fuel supply, Rye said.
While Thursday night's last-minute decision not to launch was a
nail-biting tease, Friday's forecast proved anything but a close call
with winds, rain and only a 10 percent chance of clear skies.
"It didn't look (like) it's a wise decision to even try it" on Friday,
NASA chief spokesman David Mould told The Associated Press.
But the agency was hopeful about Thursday's planned launch. NASA
managers waited until the end of the countdown before deciding to call
off the launch scheduled for 9:35 p.m. It would have been the first
nighttime launch in four years.
Less than an hour earlier, the skies had appeared to clear enough before
the clouds built back up.
"We gave it the best shot and didn't get clear and convincing evidence
that the cloud ceiling had cleared for us," launch director Mike
Leinbach told Discovery's seven astronauts.
After more than four hours on the launch pad, the astronauts remained
fairly upbeat. Sunita "Sunny" Williams, who mugged for the cameras on
the way into Discovery, waved hello at the cameras on the way out of the
shuttle.
During the 12-day mission, Discovery's astronauts will rewire the space
station, bring up a new 2-ton addition to the space lab and move
Williams into the station.
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said he felt no pressure to stick to
the launch schedule, despite NASA's desire to go up before Dec. 17 so
that Discovery is back on the ground for the new year. Shuttle computers
are not designed to make the change from the 365th day of the old year
to the first day of the new year while in flight. The space agency has
figured out a solution for the New Year's Day problem, but managers are
reluctant to try it.
If Discovery is still grounded by Dec. 18, NASA may decide to keep
trying anyway through Dec. 26.
"We've got days and days, and we're not even worrying about the clock
problem," Griffin said. "The clock problem is an annoyance, but it's not
a real problem in the sense that we know how to deal with it."
___
On the Net:
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov
--
Greg Williams
K4HSM
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http://www.twiar.org
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:52:55 -0500
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] LuxuriaMusic Says "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" to the
Beatles on Dec. 8, 2006
To: Media News <[email protected]>
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LuxuriaMusic Says "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" to the Beatles on Dec. 8, 2006
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. To observe the 26th anniversary of John Lennon's
death, Internet radio station LuxuriaMusic (www.LuxuriaMusic.com) will
celebrate the music of the Beatles in its own special way this Friday:
by not playing one single Beatles performance. Instead, LuxuriaMusic DJs
will dig deep into their vinyl vaults and CD cabinets to spin a solid 24
hours of artists - from the sublime to the psychotic - covering Beatles
songs.
Fans of the Fab Four will want to visit www.LuxuriaMusic.com to hear
artists such as Ramsey Lewis, the Ventures, the Beach Boys, Enoch Light,
Bud Shank, the Hollyridge Strings and Vinnie Bell interpreting Beatles
classics.
Beatles non-believers can tune in to "enjoy" artists such as Pinky &
Perky, Mrs. Miller and choruses of canines and out-of-tune children
butchering the Beatles much like the band did to dolls on the original
cover of their Yesterday and Today album. Station DJs who do not
normally have Friday shows will be dropping by the studio to play
mini-sets of Beatles-inspired gems from their personal collections.
"All of us at LuxuriaMusic genuinely love the Beatles, but pop culture
is so saturated with Beatles music on oldies radio, television and
commercials that you don't really have to sit down and listen to them
anymore - you can just hear them in your head and you're satisfied,"
said program director Chuck Kelley. "So one of the few steadfast rules
at LuxuriaMusic is, Don'tplay the Beatles! - there are so many other
great under-appreciated artiststo play. The way we pay tribute to them
is by playing idiotic moog synthesizer versions of "Lucy In The Sky With
Diamonds," wordless-vocal covers of "Yesterday" and also the
unquestionably great, non-ironic cover versions that exist. It?ll be fun
for both the DJ and the listener, I promise!"
About LuxuriaMusic
Targeting an international audience of hip music fiends who are sick of
hearing the same standard 50 songs on terrestrial radio, LuxuriaMusic
plays an intoxicating and often hallucinatory blend of musical genres,
including Exotica, Lounge, Space Age Bachelor Pad, Bossa Nova,
Bollywood, Bubblegum, Soft-Psych, 60s Go-Go, Latin Jazz and Surf music.
Our current programming is a mix of live DJs - local authors and
musicians who are specialists in their chosen musical genres?as well as
taped-for-broadcast and automated shows. On-air guests have included
Brian Wilson, Carol Kaye, Vic Mizzy, Lalo Schifrin, John C. Reilly,
StuPhilips, Richard and Robert Sherman, David Marks, Van Dyke Parks,
Margo Guryan, Ferrante & Teicher and Keely Smith.
The LuxuriaMusic radio format was developed by Chuck Kelley (music
consultant on Pulp Fiction) and The Millionaire (Combustible Edison),
and launched its first Internet radio broadcast on Feb. 14, 2000. The
station ranked #73 in the November 2000 Arbitron ratings, and placed in
the Top 30 among Internet-only stations. LuxuriaMusic.com ceased
operations in May 2001 after Clear Channel Communications bought its
parent company, Enigma Digital. The LuxuriaMusic radio stream was
relaunched in March 2003, and live DJs were added in August of 2006. The
station is now owned and operated by LuxuriaMusic, LLC with corporate
headquarters in San Francisco and broadcast studio in Los Angeles. Chuck
Kelley and Eric Bonerz (Program Director of the original LuxuriaMusic)
are co-program directors.
Contact email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Greg Williams
K4HSM
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http://www.twiar.org
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:55:10 -0500
From: Greg Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] 2 geo sats going up tonight
To: Media News <[email protected]>, [email protected]
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An Ariane 5 rocket will place 2 geo sat's into orbit tonight.
Wildblue 1 is going to 111 degrees West
Amc 18 is going to 105 degrees West
Webcast at
http://www.videocorner.tv/index.php?langue=en
Launch Window opens at 22:08 UTC ( Dec 8 )
Wildfeeds: Anyone have sat coordinates for C-band viewers?
--
Greg Williams
K4HSM
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.twiar.org
http://www.etskywarn.net
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:59:49 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Dual Missile Test Fails Off Hawaii
To: [email protected]
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Dual Missile Test Fails Off Hawaii
Dec 08 12:08 AM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/08/D8LSF6R04.html
By DAVID BRISCOE
Associated Press Writer
HONOLULU
A drill planned to demonstrate the Navy's ability to knock down two incoming
missiles at once from the same ship failed off Hawaii's coast on Thursday,
the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said.
A computer configuration problem aboard the USS Lake Erie grounded one
interceptor missile, and officials halted the second during the test of the
sea-based U.S. missile defense system.
It was the second failure in nine tests of the system by the agency and the
U.S. Navy, said Missile Defense Agency spokesman Chris Taylor.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet has been gradually installing missile surveillance
and tracking technology on many of its destroyers and cruisers amid concerns
about North Korea's long-range missile program.
In Thursday's drill, a dummy enemy ballistic missile was launched from the
Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, simulating a missile attack on U.S.
territory, and a shorter-range missile was fired from a Navy aircraft and
aimed at the anti-missile ship, the Lake Erie, the agency said.
Both target missiles dropped harmlessly into the ocean.
Missile defense officials say the U.S. missile defense system already being
installed on ships is still viable, and they are planning a repeat of the
dual-launch test, probably sometime next year.
Riki Ellison, president of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, based in
Alexandria, Va., said, "Though this event is discouraging, the testing
enables our defenses to be more efficient and more effective."
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Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:11:59 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Faulty online mapping linked to wrong turn
disaster
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/faulty-online-mapping-linked-to-wrong-
turn-disaster/2006/12/08/1165081119464.html
Questionable directions given by online mapping services could have
contributed to the death of James Kim, who perished while trying to save his
stranded family.
Kim, 35, was driving home from a vacation with his wife, Kati, and
daughters, four-year-old Penelope and seven-month-old Sabine, on November 25
when he took a wrong turn and they became lost in the wilderness in Oregon,
in north-west US.
Kim left his family on Saturday to find help, but never returned. When
searchers found his lifeless body yesterday, he had already walked 13
kilometres through rugged terrain, wearing only light clothing.
But Kim - undoubtedly tech-savvy given that he worked as a technology
reporter for the online publisher CNET - may never have made that fateful
wrong turn if he hadn't used the internet to look up directions for his
journey, US media reports suggest.
According to Associated Press, drivers are advised not to take Bear Camp
Road to Gold Beach in winter, the route taken by the Kims.
"Authorities say the cyber-savvy family may have plucked the route from
Grants Pass to Gold Beach from an online mapping service, unaware of the
elements," AP reported.
"Despite its impassable snowdrifts and single lane, Bear Camp Road is
offered as the preferred route on some websites and on-board-directions
software available on some new cars. And most of those have no business in
those mountains in the winter."
When using the Yahoo Maps, MapQuest and Google Maps online services to plot
directions from Grants Pass to Gold Beach, Yahoo and MapQuest both recommend
taking the same, safer highway route, while Google suggests a shortcut
through roads that become dangerous in winter.
"It's [the route used by the Kim family] not a good way to go in winter
conditions," Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson told journalists.
"You're not going to make it."
It hasn't been definitively confirmed which online mapping service, if any,
the Kim family used for directions.
Autopsy results are due today, and it is expected that they will show that
Kim, weakened by a lack of food, eventually succumbed to hypothermia.
Kim's wife and daughters were rescued earlier this week, sustaining only
minor injuries.
Since his body was recovered yesterday, video, audio and text tributes to
Kim have flooded the web.
Yesterday, smh.com.au's story that reported on the finding of Kim's body was
the website's most-read article, attracting over 100,000 page views.
Similarly, on MSNBC.com, the story received over 1 million page views by
lunch time, and was also its top-rated story. On CNN.com, the story had
received 755,000 page views by mid-afternoon, SFGate.com reports.
The website created to track the search effort, www.jamesandkati.com, is
currently collecting donations for the Kim family.
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:25:56 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] NASA crushes lunar real estate industry
To: [email protected]
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Moon base will not be a squat
By Chris Williams ? More by this author
Published Friday 8th December 2006 12:15 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/08/nasa_real_estate/
NASA has confirmed its moon base will not illegally occupy other people's
land.
The news deals a crushing blow to the dreams of thousands of idiots, who
coughed the cash for their very own patch of dusty countryside on the moon.
NASA announced earlier this week it would start building a permanent lunar
outpost in 2020.
A NASA spokesman told us: "Property rights on the moon are governed by the
United Nations. Those are all just frauds."
It transpires the moon comes under the same jusisdiction as international
waters. In 2004 the Board of Directors of the International Institute of
Space Law aimed to clear up confusion over the legal status of land flogging
operations.
It said in a statement: "The sellers of such deeds are unable to acquire
legal title to their claims. Accordingly, the deeds they sell have no legal
value or significance, and convey no recognized rights whatsoever."
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:39:01 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Top phone carriers say keeping satellite ties
To: [email protected]
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Top phone carriers say keeping satellite ties
Reuters
Wed Dec 6, 2006 6:24pm ET28
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=industryNews&storyID=2006-12-06T232426Z_01_N06380865_RTRIDST_0_INDUSTRY-TELECOMS-SATELLITE-DC.XML&WTmodLoc=EntNewsIndustry_C2_industryNews-1
NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. said on
Wednesday they would keep their satellite television partnerships, even
though both phone companies are launching video products of their own.
Underscoring the slow expansion of their nascent Web-based TV services,
which are being launched in limited markets, senior executives at AT&T and
Verizon separately told a conference they intended to continue to work with
satellite partners.
AT&T began a commercial launch of its Internet-based video service named
U-Verse in June. It also offers satellite television services through a
partnership with EchoStar Communications Corp. since 2004.
"It's important for us to have a video product that we can offer across our
footprint," AT&T Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner told the UBS conference.
EchoStar's DISH network is available throughout AT&T's markets and is meant
as an alternative for customers who live in areas without access to the
advanced, fiber network necessary for U-Verse.
AT&T reported 586,000 AT&T/DISH subscribers, and 3,000 U-Verse subscribers,
at the end of the third quarter.
Both AT&T and Verizon intend to expand their proprietary TV services to
compete with cable operators that are offering all-in-one packages, but
they need to gain regulatory approvals and upgrade their telecommunications
networks first.
Verizon Chief Financial Officer Doreen Toben said there was no change in
the company's relationship with DirecTV Group Inc., even as it expanded its
Internet-based FiOS TV service.
"Clearly we are not going to be able to get FiOS everywhere, and so from
that perspective, I think it has been a win-win," Toben told the UBS
conference. "They continue to be great partners, and we will continue to go
like that for, I think, sometime."
Verizon shares rose 37 cents, or more than 1 percent, to end at $34.95,
while AT&T shares rose 10 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $34.78, both on the New
York Stock Exchange.
================================
George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:40:27 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Cable's Hot December
To: [email protected]
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Cable's Hot December
Sci Fi, HBO Set Miniseries, TBS Resumes Sitcoms
By Sam Schechner
Wall Street Journal
December 8, 2006; Page W2
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116553216555143966.html?mod=hps_us_editors_picks
On television, winter traditionally sets in with a whimper. The fall
premieres are over, the midseason shows don't debut until January, and
reruns share time with hoary holiday specials. But for a growing number of
cable channels, this quiet period presents an opportunity.
This December's looking unusually busy with new shows and big-budget
miniseries, as cable channels jockey for viewers. In the next week, cable
programs will depict terrorists plotting against Los Angeles, a tsunami
striking Southeast Asia, and Peter Krause and Julianna Margulies getting
caught in a sprawling conspiracy over a magical motel-room key. Last week,
TBS launched "My Boys" and "10 Items or Less," its first original sitcoms
in at least two decades.
"We want to make noise in the marketplace when others aren't," says Laura
Michalchyshyn, head of programming at the Sundance Channel, which is
promoting its new series "One Punk Under God," a six-episode documentary
that follows Jay Bakker, the tattoo-covered son of televangelists Jim
Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner (Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST).
On Sunday, HBO will debut its two-part movie "Tsunami: The Aftermath",
while Showtime tees up the second season of its terror thriller "Sleeper
Cell: American Terror" (9 p.m. EST). Showtime's series, in which a Federal
Bureau of Investigation agent infiltrates an Al Qaeda cell, will run on
eight consecutive nights, in part so the channel can finish its run before
the January return of "24," Fox's hit terror-suspense show.
The hour at 9 p.m. will be particularly packed, with both "Sleeper Cell"
and "One Punk" going up against "The Lost Room," Sci Fi's three-part
miniseries starring Mr. Krause, which debuts Monday.
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:43:22 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Microsoft FrontPage falls victim to blogging
culture
To: [email protected]
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Microsoft FrontPage falls victim to blogging culture
Successors aimed at professionals
By Tony Dennis
The Inquirer
Friday 08 December 2006, 16:41
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36255
IT'S BECOME obvious that FrontPage is going to be quietly dropped from the
Beast of Redmond's regular user orientated offerings ? only to be replaced
by professional design tools. Blogging sites are replacing personal Web
sites for the average PC user.
Originally a classic part of Microsoft's Office suite, FrontPage's role
will be taken care of by two new products ? Expression Web and Sharepoint
Designer. Both are blatantly aimed at "the professional Web designer"
rather than ordinary PC users.
According to FrontPage's own home page, "After nine years of being an
award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006."
The news leaked out when an irate ISP support engineer told an INQ reader,
"Microsoft has since decommissioned and no longer supports FrontPage."
He added, "Microsoft has not supported FrontPage Extensions on Linux
hosting accounts since 2002." His suggestion was to "recommend no longer
using FrontPage and utilising FTP software to upload your website."
The INQ checked with Microsoft which merely pointed out that, officially,
'mainstream' support for FrontPage 2003 won't expire until January 2009 and
'extended' support won't expire until January 2014.
But the point is ? where does this leave those users who created
sophisticated web sites using FrontPage extensions? The number of ISPs
willing to offer support for such extensions appears to be dropping at an
alarming rate.
Microsoft itself said: "We are planning on providing a range of resources
to assist FrontPage users with migrating their legacy sites to fully
conform to new standards."
In the meantime, existing users can only take advantage of migration tools
such as one offered by Adobe to work with its Dreamweaver package.
The majority of other FrontPage migration tools appear to be designed
merely to help users migrate their personal web sites to blogging sites.
Sophisticated Frontpage 'Webots' will be lost.
There's obviously a gap emerging for a simple HTML creation package which
doesn't require hours of online tutorials to learn how to use.
================================
George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 10
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:01:24 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] FTC Gets Involved in Net Neutrality
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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FTC Gets Involved in Net Neutrality
By John Eggerton
Broadcasting & Cable
12/7/2006 5:11:00 PM
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6398178.html?display=Breaking+News
The FCC has been awash in the network neutrality issue and now the FTC is
wading into the issue deeper.
The Federal Trade Commission says it will hold a two-day workshop Feb. 13
and 14, on Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy," which includes
potential consumer protection issues like network neutrality.
The FTC formed an Internet Access Task force in August 2006, at which time
Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras asked for input and got an earful on network
neutrality.
FTC staff plans to invite panelists, but interested parties can also
propose themselves. Applications can be submitted to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] by Jan. 15, 2007.
The FTC wants an explanation of expertise asks interested parties to
include a statement detailing their expertise on the issues to be addressed
at the workshop and complete contact information. Panelists selected to
participate will be notified by Feb. 1, 2007.
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:02:52 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] No End in Malone?s Game
To: [email protected]
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December 7, 2006
No End in Malone's Game
By Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
Multichannel News
http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1820000182/post/260005826.html
Mere mortals can only muse about any given maneuver by John Malone.
For the past few months, those mortals -- call them "analysts," call them
"journalists" -- have tried to figure out what could possibly be John
Malone's motivation for taking over what is roundly seen as a business in
decline.
This, of course, would be the satellite-delivered pay television business.
The primary knock is that it's a "one-way" business in a two-way world. It
can deliver video, but not much else. No Internet access. No telephone calls.
This, in a world of communications and entertainment where the "triple
play" now rules: $100 combinations of video, phone and Internet services
that may soon become "quad plays" with mobile telephony bundled in.
Subscribership is slowing at the two main players, DirecTV and EchoStar
Communications' Dish Network. And crystal-ballers often think that growth
is limited for the foreseeable future, as cable companies in particular
make hay of not just phone service, not just Internet access, but
network-based services, such as delivering video programs of all types on
demand.
But let's not forget how successful these satellite TV companies have
become. DirecTV now has 15.5 million subscribers.
In effect, if Liberty Media winds up with a controlling stake in DirecTV,
Dr. Malone once again could be the so-called Darth Vader of the
video-distribution business.
The only larger distributor is Comcast, with 24.1 million subscribers. When
Malone was first considered some kind of iconic villain in video, he was
head of the nation's largest cable operator, Tele-Communications Inc. Back
then, he oversaw "only" 13 million subscribers.
And what if the next step is for Malone to sit down one-on-one, as he
apparently did with Murdoch, and talk transaction with fellow Denver
resident Charlie Ergen? You have to believe Malone would love to pick up
Dish Network and its 12.8 millions subs, as well, and leave the country
with just one satellite service.
That would again make Malone the operator of the largest video-distribution
business in the country.
He just might be able to pull it off with antitrust regulators and
policymakers. Liberty is much smaller than News Corp. And in a couple of
more years, there likely will be three serious video players in almost any
significant market: one from the cable column, one from the telephone
column and one from the satellite column. That's a pretty good amount of
choice.
Would Liberty then need to be in the Internet-access business and the phone
business to compete?
Maybe not. This is why Malone's play bears close watching. He could just
decide to use all of the satellite capacity he has commandeered -- and all
the transponders he has freed up from duplicate carriage of channels
between Dish and DirecTV -- and compete head-to-head with cable and phone
rivals on video alone. He could try to blanket the country with more
high-definition channels at just the time consumers are trading up to HD
sets and try to break the back of cable and phone companies that can't keep
up. And if they keep up in quantity, he can compete on cost, with a single
standardized high-capacity system to operate
In 2003, when Murdoch and Malone together contemplated buying DirecTV from
General Motors, satellite service was seen as the future, pushing the
envelope with set-top boxes that digitally recorded shows for playback.
Cable was on the defensive.
Now, the roles are reversed. Cable's the future, with so many new revenue
streams to draw on and services to deliver.
But John Malone never makes an $11 billion blind bet. It's "analysts" and
"journalists" that are blind to what the end game ultimately will be.
Partly that's because with John Malone, there is no end. It took hundreds
of deals to build TCI into the nation's biggest cable operator. He hasn't
been inactive in the last eight years, even if he's not worked on center
stage. He's probably done more deals than anyone in the media business,
save perhaps his one-time and potentially once-again friend, Mr. Murdoch.
He could just want to build Liberty in an operating business that rivals
Time Warner or News Corp. If he gets DirecTV, he will have programming
channels (like Discovery), a premium TV service (Starz), a movie studio
(under construction) and a distribution network -- just like Time Warner.
And if he decides that Internet access and telephony are services Liberty
has to own and roll into the DirecTV business, he has WildBlue, he could
buy Clearwire or Covad or even an operation like Sprint.
Or, he could sell out to a telephone company. He did it before, with TCI.
Its name was AT&T.
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 12
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:06:34 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Specter Vows to Lift NFL TV Exemption
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[Senator Specter hails from Pennsylvania. Comcast is headquartered in
Pehhsylvania.]
Specter Vows to Lift NFL TV Exemption
By Ted Hearn
Multichannel News
12/7/2006 6:10:00 PM
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6398153.html?display=Breaking+News
Washington -- A law that allows the National Football League to sign
lucrative television contracts on behalf of all 32 teams should be
repealed, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said at a Senate hearing Thursday.
Specter said he would introduce a bill in the new Congress that would
repeal the NFL?s antitrust exemption under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.
He claimed that he wasn?t afraid to tackle the commercially and politically
powerful NFL. ?I think I?ll have a lot of company, and that is the football
fans of America, who are being gouged,? he added after chairing a hearing
on sports-programming issues.
NFL director of communications Brian McCarthy said the status quo was
sufficient because the league?s ?television practices have been recognized
as consistent with the public interest? in that they provide ?fans
extraordinary amounts of programming? either free-of-charge or at little
out-of-pocket expense.
?There is no basis now to repeal statutory provisions that have supported
the development of these pro-consumer and pro-fan policies,? he added.
With Democrats taking control of the Senate in January, Specter will have
to yield his committee chairmanship to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.). Although
Leahy has not taken a stand on the NFL issue, he helped to pass legislation
that narrowed Major League Baseball?s antitrust exemption, Leahy spokesman
David Carle said.
The Sherman Antitrust Act -- passed in 1890 and used as a trust-busting
hammer by President Theodore Roosevelt in the early 1900s -- states that
?every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or
conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or
with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.?
Enforcement of the Sherman law against the NFL would probably mean that
each team would have to cut its own deals, perhaps dealing a blow to the
NFL?s vaunted spread-the-wealth ethos designed to promote competitive
parity among its teams regardless of market size.
?I think they?d have to negotiate on an individual basis,? Specter said.
Testifying before Specter?s panel, Comcast executive vice president David
Cohen -- whose company is in litigation with the NFL over carriage of NFL
Network -- did not endorse repeal as advocated by Specter. Instead, Cohen
said, the antitrust exemption should be conditioned.
Later to reporters, Cohen said that if a complete repeal caused each team
to negotiate a separate TV deal, it could lead to problems arranging
postseason coverage. ?What do you do for the playoffs? Who has the Super
Bowl rights?? Cohen explained.
A possible condition, he suggested, might involve banning the NFL from
distributing programming on an exclusive basis, meaning that DirecTV would
lose its exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, the out-of-market game package.
Lastly, Cohen said he wasn?t totally convinced that a federal court would
necessarily find that the NFL?s policy on TV rights would violate the
Sherman Act.
As a money machine, the NFL has few peers in the world of sports
entertainment. The league has long-term deals with NBC, CBS and Fox worth
nearly $12 billion, in addition to another $8.8 billion deal with cable
sports network ESPN. Meanwhile, for the first time in league history, the
NFL has begun to air games exclusively on NFL Network in every market
except the home towns of the two teams on the field.
Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other cable operators want to carry NFL
Network on sport tiers so that only sports fans shoulder the cost of the
programming. The league, by contract, is seeking the widest possible
distribution.
The NFL?s cable-carriage demands have upset Specter. "This is the NFL
exerting its power ? right down to the last nickel,? he said.
================================
George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 13
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:14:22 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Talk Show Host Indicted in Wife's Death
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Talk Show Host Indicted in Wife's Death
Dec 07 8:05 PM US/Eastern
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/07/D8LSBKN00.html
A popular former radio talk show host accused of fatally shooting his
estranged wife was indicted Thursday on a second-degree murder charge.
Vince Marinello, 69, appeared alone at the hearing because his attorney
withdrew from the case last week. He has not yet entered a plea and an
arraignment date has not been set.
He is accused of shooting his estranged wife, Mary Elizabeth Marinello,
twice in the face on Aug. 31. The 45-year-old respiratory therapist, died
the next day.
The attack was first described as a botched robbery, but investigators
discarded that theory after examining surveillance tapes.
Sheriff Harry Lee has said Marinello disguised himself as a scruffy man and
rode a bicycle to the parking lot of a building where he knew his wife was
attending a regularly scheduled appointment. Detectives have not found the
gun used to kill the woman, but Lee said they found a handwritten checklist
of the plans for the attack _ describing the bicycle, costume and gun,
inside Marinello's FEMA trailer.
Marinello's bond was raised to $750,000 from $250,000 on Thursday. Unable to
come up with the money, he was handcuffed and taken into custody.
After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, Marinello
switched his WWL local talk show's focus from sports to hurricane relief.
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:24:42 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Popular 105.1 DJ Blaze Shot At Least 13 Times
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Popular 105.1 DJ Blaze Shot At Least 13 Times
http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/local_story_341171542.html
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK A disc jockey for a popular hip-hop radio station was shot
at least 13 times at an apartment building Thursday, and his jewelry was
snatched, police said.
Carl Blaze, whose real name is Carlos Rivera, was in critical condition at a
Harlem hospital, police said.
Blaze, who works for Power 105.1 FM, had been wearing a white metal diamond
chain with the initials "CB" when he was shot at about 4:30 a.m. The chain
was missing when police arrived, investigators said. Police were searching
for suspects.
Building resident Elizabeth Figueroa said she was at home when she heard
gunshots and pressed her intercom button to find out what was happening in
the lobby area.
"We said, 'What's going on?"' she recalled, "and he said, 'I've been shot.
I've been shot. Help me, please help me!"'
Figueroa and other residents ran down to help and found Blaze slumped at the
foot of a staircase and bleeding profusely.
"He just said, 'I'm hurt, I'm hurt, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die,"' said
Figueroa, who called 911.
Vincent Espinosa said he tried to look at Blaze's wounds before paramedics
arrived.
"So I pulled up his shirt to check the wounds because he was bleeding a lot,
profusely," Espinosa said, "and he had like 15, 16 shots."
Blaze, 30, broadcasts live from Club T in Manhattan on Fridays from 11 p.m.
to 2 a.m. and on Saturdays from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. and midnight to 2 a.m.
According to Power 105's Web site, Blaze has more than 2 million listeners.
The station, which plays hip-hop and R&B, is owned by radio giant Clear
Channel Communications.
Clear Channel spokeswoman Josefa Paganuzzi had no comment.
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:28:37 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] BitTorrent's Move From PCs to TVs
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BitTorrent's Move From PCs to TVs
By Scott Gilbertson
Wired News
02:00 AM Dec, 08, 2006
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72272-0.html?tw=wn_index_3
If the thought of having BitTorrent, the world's most famous file-swapping
software, available on your set-top box to download high-definition movies
from major Hollywood studios seems far-fetched, you're not alone.
In an e-mail interview with Wired News, HDNet chairman Mark Cuban
effectively dismissed the notion as a pipe dream, along with the surprise
deal announced Thursday that's supposed to make this purported future a
reality.
"Nonevent," Cuban wrote of BitTorrent's acquisition of ?Torrent (pronounced
"micro torrent"), the lightweight client that presumably can fit anywhere
-- and take BitTorrent everywhere.
"I think P2P is great for corporate and controlled apps, but not for open
distribution," he continued. "P2P has content-distribution capabilities,
(but) mass distribution of content isn't one of them."
Skepticism is understandable given the sweeping change that would follow if
BitTorrent actually pulls this off. Imagine Comcast distributing HD
programming on demand over its cable system through peer-to-peer file
sharing. Or Verizon powering V Cast using peer-to-peer technology.
In fact, there are good reasons for Comcast and Verizon to want BitTorrent
to succeed, and while the technology may need work, it is promising enough
to take very seriously indeed.
This week, BitTorrent rival Azureus announced that it had partnered with
several media companies to stream HD movies over BitTorrent networks. The
Azureus client, while robust, uses a much larger code base, making it more
difficult to run on smaller devices like handhelds or mobile phones.
Azureus declined to comment on the BitTorrent acquisition.
The slim ?Torrent client, which is only 173 KB in size, has the small
footprint required to run on a greater range of devices. And -- this is the
interesting part -- the content distributors on these devices are in
desperate need of exactly the kind of bandwidth efficiency BitTorrent can
provide.
As consumers start to clamor for on-demand HD programming, cable companies
are going to feel the pinch of sharply increased delivery costs. Same goes
for mobile video providers. As demand kicks up, their networks will strain
to keep up, making them more susceptible to BitTorrent's pitch.
"BitTorrent has acquired ?Torrent as it recognized the merits of ?Torrent's
exceptionally well-written code base and robust user community," said
BitTorrent CEO Bram Cohen and ?Torrent creator Ludvig Strigeus in a joint
statement. "Bringing together ?Torrent's efficient implementation and
compelling (user interface) with BitTorrent's expertise in networking
protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision
will be the best BitTorrent client."
The company announced that it had acquired the competing software client in
a forum post at ?Torrent's website. ?Torrent is renowned among its user
base for its exceptionally small size and its ability to transfer large
files without straining a computer's resources.
BitTorrent's own client and the ?Torrent client both use the BitTorrent
protocol to enable the rapid sharing of large files on peer-to-peer networks.
Now that the streamlined ?Torrent client is part of BitTorrent's toolbox,
the company will soon be able to begin delivering movies to devices with
less processing power and less memory than a standard PC.
"We will continue to develop ?Torrent and will be using the code base in
other applications, especially ones where a fast, lightweight
implementation is more suitable, such as embedded systems on TVs, cell
phones and other non-PC platforms," said Strigeus and Cohen in Thursday's
forum post.
Distributing movies directly to a customer's cable box has been one of
BitTorrent's goals since signing deals with several major Hollywood
studios, including 20th Century Fox, Lion's Gate Films and MTV Networks.
"We're working on making BitTorrent come preinstalled on many embedded
devices, as one of the basic services they support in the same class as web
browsers," Cohen told Wired News in an interview last week.
According to Cohen and Strigeus' post, ?Torrent's future includes the
release of Mac and Linux versions of the popular software, a development
that will certainly enlarge BitTorrent's user community.
================================
George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 16
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:36:36 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Sirius Sees Benefits in Potential Merger With XM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701
750_pf.html
By Chris Kirkham
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 8, 2006; D01
Executives of Sirius Satellite Radio are again hinting at a potential merger
with XM Satellite Radio that they say would bring strong gains for
investors.
Their statements boosted the stock prices of Sirius and XM this week, though
both settled by the end of trading yesterday.
In two speeches in New York on Wednesday, Sirius executives mentioned
"significant benefits" and "value creation" from a combination of the two
radio companies.
"Consolidation creates value . . . particularly when you are in the same
industry as another company to be able to combine," Sirius chief executive
Mel Karmazin said. He and David J. Frear, Sirius's chief financial officer,
spoke to analysts at a conference.
It is not the first time Sirius has dropped such a hint. Karmazin began his
tenure at Sirius in early 2005 with media speculation about merger talks,
which both companies denied took place. Since then, he has referred to the
logic of a merger in calls with analysts.
A spokesman for XM declined to comment on what he called "speculation," and
officials from Sirius did not return calls yesterday.
XM and Sirius are both wrestling with slowing subscription growth and huge
debt. Neither company has yet earned a profit, though XM projects it will
break even next year.
XM has more subscribers. Analysts estimate that the company has about 8
million, compared with about 6 million for Sirius. But it has about $1.3
billion in long-term debt, $3 million more than Sirius.
The two companies have scaled back subscriber projections in recent months.
"Both companies are realizing that the period of hyper-growth may be coming
to a completion, and the stage of growth combined with cash creation will
require more efficiencies," said Frederick W. Moran, a media stock analyst
with the Stanford Group based in Boca Raton, Fla.
"Both Sirius and XM could prosper much more easily if they took up the fight
against terrestrial radio operators, rather than against each other," Moran
said. Sirius has a deal with radio host Howard Stern and rights to National
Football League games. XM has rights to Major League Baseball games.
If the companies proposed to merge, the Federal Communications Commission
and the Justice Department would review the case for antitrust concerns. The
biggest question would be how the market is defined.
Experts say a strict interpretation of the satellite radio market by
regulators would make a merger more difficult because an XM-Sirius
combination would have monopoly power. If the market is interpreted more
broadly to include on-demand MP3s or podcasts or traditional radio, a merger
might go through more easily.
"If you define the market narrowly to be satellite radio, it's a two-to-one
merger, which would raise red flags all over the place," said Luke M. Froeb,
a professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Business who
used to analyze mergers at the Federal Trade Commission.
The idea of a satellite radio merger recalls a similar proposal in 2002 by
satellite TV providers EchoStar Communications and DirecTV. That deal was
rejected by the FCC and the Justice Department, which defined the satellite
television market as separate from cable television.
The Justice Department would consider whether an XM-Sirius merger would lead
to price increases of more than 5 percent. But for two companies still
operating at a loss, it's difficult to say how much power they would have
over the industry, said Mark Cooper, director of research at the Consumer
Federation of America. "Because the industry is so new, we don't really know
what the price equilibrium should be," he said.
Sirius stock closed yesterday at $3.88 a share, up 5 cents. XM closed at
$14.81 a share, up 11 cents.
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 17
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:38:26 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Google begins limited test of radio advertising
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=200
6-12-07T233639Z_01_N07281255_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-RADIO.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Thursday it has completed the
development of its widely anticipated radio advertising system and begun a
limited test allowing customers to buy ads via its online ad-buying system.
In a statement on the Web search leader's site, the company said it had
begun testing a system it acquired by purchasing dMarc Broadcasting in early
2006 for $102 million and which it subsequently built into its existing
AdWords online ad system.
Google Audio Ads is working with more than 700 radio stations covering more
than 200 metropolitan U.S. markets, Google spokesman Mike Mayzel said.
"We're happy to announce that the integration is now complete and we've
recently begun a U.S. beta test of Google Audio Ads with a small group of
AdWords advertisers," Google said in a statement on its official advertising
blog.
RBC Capital Markets radio industry analyst David Bank said the test was a
first step in a major undertaking by Google.
"What everybody's expecting is that Google will get involved with a big
radio player on a wider scale," Bank said, adding that is talking with a
number of major radio operators.
Analysts expect Google Audio Ads to shake up the $20 billion annual U.S.
radio advertising industry by offering a simplified Web-based purchasing
process for radio ads to its existing base of hundreds of thousands of text
advertisers.
One executive at a big radio company said last month the industry was moving
cautiously in its dealings with Google
Bank concurred, saying: "There's a real mixed emotion among radio
operators."
On the one hand, Google's entry may turn radio advertising into more of a
commodity.
"A disaster could occur if people who were buying spots offline started
buying online at a lower pricing level," Bank said.
But by helping turn its vast audience of Web search advertising buyers into
radio ad buyers, Google may eventually prove to be a boon for the industry,
he noted.
"What Google gets is a dual revenue stream on top of search. They're not in
the radio advertising business. They may also use it to sell search to local
radio customers," he said.
Google may offer radio operators a large upfront financial guarantee to sell
air time inventory to mitigate their risks.
"Audio Ads offers detailed reporting, targeting by demographic, location and
station type, and provides easy access to the huge market reached by radio
programming," Google said in discussing the project on its AdWords sales
site.
The AdWords purchasing system allows customers to track how much is spent on
each radio ad, when and where the ad airs.
Google is inviting a small set of selected advertisers to join the current
test program. The company said it had not set a date for when its radio
advertising service will become more widely available to advertisers.
Google is seeking to expand beyond the pay-per-click Web search advertising
market it dominates to offer advertising across a range of traditional and
new media formats ranging from newspapers to online video.
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 18
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:52:34 -0800
From: Dishnut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Medianews] [Wildfeeds] 2 geo sats going up tonight
To: [email protected]
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Greg Williams wrote:
> An Ariane 5 rocket will place 2 geo sat's into orbit tonight.
>
> Wildblue 1 is going to 111 degrees West
>
> Amc 18 is going to 105 degrees West
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> Webcast at
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> http://www.videocorner.tv/index.php?langue=en
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> Launch Window opens at 22:08 UTC ( Dec 8 )
>
> Wildfeeds: Anyone have sat coordinates for C-band viewers?
>
3851 V Vpid: 308 Apid: 256 SR: 8190
Subject: [Wildfeeds] Ariane 5 / WildBlue 1 & AMC-18 Launch Coverage
Friday (12-8) @ 4:45pm ET. AMC-9 Trans 8C-Band (3851 V) DVB
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:39:36 -0800
To: Medianews <[email protected]>,Satellite TV Wild Feeds List
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Tom & Darryl Mail List
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,TVRO Newsgroup <[email protected]>,
TVRO Talk Newsgroup <[email protected]>,WildFeeds List
<[email protected]>
Arianespace this Friday (12-8)is set to attempt the final launch for the
year of a Ariane 5 ECA (v.174) with WildBlue 1 for WildBlue
communications and AMC-18 for SES Americom, from ELA-3, Kourou, French
Guiana, South America.
Launch is set for 5:08 p.m. EST. with a window extending to 5:51 p.m. EST.
Spacecraft separation for WildBlue-1 is expected 27 minutes after lift
off and 32 minutes after liftoff for AMC-18.
WildBlue-1, the first satellite to be totally dedicated to broadband
Internet services. is a FS 1300 buss model built by Space Systems
Loral, has 35 geographical spot beams. WildBlue-1 will be located at 111
degrees West.
AMC-18 built by Lockheed Martin, is a A 2100 buss model with 24 Cband
transponders. AMC-18 will be located at 105 degrees West.
DVB Broadcast coverage:
AMC-9 at 83.0?W transponder 8C (3851 V) SR: 10.000
Testing at 2:05 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. EST.
Broadcast starts around 4:45 p.m. EST.
If you dont have a dish, there will be a live webcast of the launch
available at:
http://www.videocorner.tv/index.php?langue=en
Additional coverage at:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v174/status.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html
http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_missionupdate_index.html
http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_launchkit_index.html
-- Dishnut-P
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Message: 19
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:43:08 -0600
From: George Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Time Warner Sues DirecTV Over NFL Network Ads
To: [email protected]
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December 8, 2006
Time Warner Sues DirecTV Over NFL Network Ads
By Daisy Whitney
TelevisionWeek Magazine
http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11201
Time Warner Cable filed a false advertising lawsuit against DirecTV in
federal court Friday in Manhattan, claiming that the satellite company's
current campaign promoting the NFL Network is deceptive.
Time Warner said in the suit that DirecTV is claiming that cable customers
won't be able to watch certain football teams unless they have DirecTV and
the NFL Network. The cable operator charged that DirecTV stated in its ads
that fans in Green Bay, Cincinnati and New York would not be able to see
their games. "That claim is false because all eight games featured on the
NFL Network will also be available to local fans over broadcast networks,"
Time Warner said in a statement.
Time Warner said DirecTV claimed it would stop running those ads Nov. 27,
but continued to run them after that date, including an ad Thursday in USA
Today.
In the suit, Time Warner asked the court to stop DirecTV from disseminating
such ads.
DirecTV declined to comment.
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Associate Professor Fax (713) 743-3927
Political Science Internet: antunes at uh dot edu
University of Houston
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