# 2
Shaw Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results and Preliminary Fiscal 2010 Guidance
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By marketwire
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/23/09 -- Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) announced results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended August 31, 2009. Consolidated service revenue for the three and twelve month periods of $873 million and $3.39 billion, respectively, was up 8% and 9% over the same periods last year. Service operating income before amortization(1) o.....
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# 4
Hutchison Takes Wait and See Approach on Net Neutrality Rules
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By Broadcasting & Cable
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, is taking a trust but verify approach to proposed new network neutrality rules.Soon after FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his plan to expand and codify the rules, Bailey threatened to introduce a bill to block funding for them, but held off after the chairman's office reached out to .....
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Wireless Industry Argues Price and Service is Competitive
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By Broadcasting & Cable
The wireless industry is saying no to a "cocktail" of data reporting requirements suggested by public interest groups, while calling on the FCC to inventory its spectrum, free more of it for wireless and eliminate tower citing delays. The industry's remarks came in the CTIA, the Wireless Association's reply comments in the FCC's inquiry into competition in the mobile w.....
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Soupy Sales Dies at 83
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By Broadcasting & Cable
DETROIT (AP) -- Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.
Sales died at Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and .....
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# 8
Time Warner Cable Launches Lo Mejor On Demand
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By Broadcasting & Cable
Time Warner Cable launched its first Spanish-language free on demand (FOD) service Friday, Lo Mejor (The Best) On Demand.The channel, which launched with a giant, day-long "freeview" in Times Square, features content from Univision and its Telefuture and Galavision services including Cristina, Sabado Gigante, and Despierta America.The channel will initially be ava.....
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CNN.com Relaunching With More Original Video, Opinion
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By Broadcasting & Cable
CNN.com is set to relaunch Monday, Oct. 26, with a new look, new organization and a mandate to add additional original (and contributed) content.
The new look has breaking news in the left hand column, features (often with video) in the center, and customizable local news and an advertising space in the right column. Below the fold are boxes organized around topics, such as.....
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# 10
Levin Back Home
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By Broadcasting & Cable
FCC broadband advisor Blair Levin was said to be home and resting comfortably Friday under a doctor's supervision (his wife is a doctor), after falling ill during a broadband conference in Chicago Wednesday.Levin was briefly hospitalized, but returned to Washington Thursday, according to an FCC spokesperson, who said that Levin is "just fine."Levin was tapped by FCC Chairman Juli.....
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