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Sprint Nextel Wins Stay in Ongoing Dispute with Affiliate

Authored by dmw on October 16, 2006 - 1:37pm.
Reston, Va. - Sprint Nextel, the Reston-based wireless giant, said on Monday that the Illinois Court of Appeals has granted a stay in its ongoing litigation with affiliate iPCS. The company said that it plans to continue operating its Nextel network throughout iPCS's territories for the foreseeable future. The territories include secondary markets in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska and a portion of Indiana. In August, the Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court ruled that Sprint's merger with Nextel violated Sprint's affiliate agreement with iPCS. Now, Sprint Nextel is appealing that decision, and expects a verdict in seven to nine months.
tags: Mobile | Law | Wireless | Sprint | Telecom | Affiliates | Illinois | Nextel |

Yahoo to Offer Local News Clips From CBS

Authored by Scott Goldberg on October 16, 2006 - 9:25am.
San Francisco – Yahoo will start showing news clips from 16 CBS television stations this week in a deal announced today. The most trafficked website on the internet has struck similar deals before, showing national and international news from CBS (“60 Minutes”), Walt Disney Co.’s ABC, and Time Warner Inc.’s CNN. Yahoo will share advertising revenue generated by the videos with the television stations.  Dmitry Shapiro, Chief Executive of video start-up Veoh Networks, criticized the company, saying, “Yahoo almost seems to be telling people what they should be watching instead of letting them make their own choices.”  The clips will begin running on Yahoo’s news site tomorrow.
tags: Internet | Video | Online Publishing | Yahoo | IPTV | CBS | Affiliates | Portals | News |

TV Affiliate Sites to Host Streaming Episodes of "Two and a Half Men"

Authored by dmw on May 8, 2006 - 7:02pm.
Los Angeles - Warner Bros. Television Group plans to make streaming reruns of its CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men" available for viewing on the websites of local TV stations that broadcast the program on-air, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The episodes will be free to watch and supported by ads running both in streaming and on-demand versions. Local stations or cable networks hosting the episodes will share in ad revenue. "No one has ever provided this before for local stations," Dick Robertson, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, told THR. "Everything until now has been through the networks' websites."
tags: Deals | Video | Video Deals | TV | Warner Bros. | Streaming | Affiliates |