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• Media Roundup: Google Asks AOL for Their Money Back, McClatchy to Cut $100 Million in Expenses and More

  BNET - 2009-02-05

  In Today's Media Roundup: Google asks AOL for their money back, McClatchy to cut $100 million in expenses, Warner music sales down 11 percent, Online ad revenues up in forth quarter, EchoStar buys Sirius XM debt, AP wants money for Obama poster and People and other magazines to disappear...

  Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Associated Press, America Online Inc., Media, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Sirius, EchoStar Communications Corp., Fairey, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sean Blanda

• I Want My MTV . . . and My ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox: CBS Broadcasting, Inc. v. EchoStar Communications Corp., the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988, and an Argument for Consumer Choice in Distant Network Broadcasting

  - 2007-01-01

  I. Introduction Recent advancements in technology have made it possible for American consumers to enjoy more television viewing choices1 than ever dreamed possible only a few years ago.2 With a few clicks of a remote control, a satellite television subscriber has instant access to hundreds of channels3 from around the...

  Tags: ABC Inc., advertisement, advertiser, affiliate, broadcaster, broadcasting, CBS Corp., Cir, EchoStar Communications Corp., MTV, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, programming, radio, revenue, satellite, technology, TV, U.S. Congress

• This Just In.(Time Warner Inc. settles fraud case with Alaska, United States Tennis Association to acquire stakes in Tennis Channel, EchoStar Communications names David Goodfriend as lobbyist)

  - 2006-12-11

  By Staff Time Warner Settles Case With Alaska Staff Anchorage, Alaska -- Time Warner Inc. settled a securities fraud case with the state of Alaska on Friday. While the company agreed...

  Tags: advertisement, DirecTV, EchoStar Communications Corp., network, Time Warner Inc.

• Lifetime-Dish dispute may cost both parties: net stands to lose fees, ad revenues.(EchoStar Communications Corp. threatens Lifetime Television to drop from Dish Network )

  - 2006-01-30

  With EchoStar Communications Corp. threatening to permanently drop Lifetime Television from its Dish Network satellite-television lineup as of midnight tomorrow night (Jan. 31), the two parties have resumed discussions in hopes of resolving their b With EchoStar Communications Corp. threatening to permanently drop ...

  Tags: advertisement, Dish Network, EchoStar Communications Corp., network

• Dish ads: 'TV sucks'.

  - 2005-08-22

  Seth Morrison was at a Cable Television Laboratories Inc. meeting in Colorado last week when a colleague e-mailed him a summary of EchoStar Communications Corp.'s latest marketing campaign, which makes liberal use of the word "sucks" to d Seth Morrison was at a Cable...

  Tags: advertisement, cable, cable company, EchoStar Communications Corp., TV

• DBS socks local-cable efforts.(AD SALES)

  - 2005-05-30

  CHICAGO -- The cable industry's ongoing problem of losing customers to DBS rivals DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. is having an impact on local ad sales, executives at the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau's Cable Sales Management Co CHICAGO -- The cable industry's ongoing problem...

  Tags: advertisement, cable, EchoStar Communications Corp., radio

• Alaska's GCI embraces the Cable Pig.(Ad Watch)(General Communication Inc.)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-01-31

  Rather than whining about EchoStar Communications Corp.'s infamous "Stop Feeding the Cable Pig" ad campaign, Alaska cable and telecom operator General Communication Inc. has embraced the swine in its own print ad campaign. GCI's spots, wh Rather than whining about EchoStar Communications Corp.'s ...

  Tags: advertisement, cable, EchoStar Communications Corp.

• DBS cranks lip anti-cable ads.(Digital Broadcast System )

  - 2004-08-23

  Not content to add customers while cable is losing them, satellite-TV providers are ratcheting up new marketing campaigns that range from mocking cable's customer service to promising cheaper programming and better sports packages. Last week, Not content to...

  Tags: advertisement, cable, CSR, digital broadcast, DirecTV, EchoStar Communications Corp., satellite

• Hammy ad.(Through The Wire)(Time Warner Cable runs a full-page ad to counteract EchoStar Communications Corp.'s campaign)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-12-22

  We were amused by the text of the recent full-page ad placed by Time Warner Cable in Southern California to counter EchoStar Communications Corp.'s campaign painting cable as a pig at the trough. The humorous ad struck all the right "cab...

  Tags: advertisement, EchoStar Communications Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc.

• EchoStar, DirecTV Add Spin to Pitches

  - 2002-10-21

  Byline: ANDREA FIGLER EchoStar Communications and DirecTV, which had their merger blocked by the Federal Communications Commission this month, are shelling out cash to advertise on television, particularly during baseball's postseason games and football games this quarter, in an attempt to convince viewers to dump cable. EchoStar rolled...

  Tags: advertisement, baseball, cable, DirecTV, EchoStar Communications Corp., FCC, Government, TVs