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• Versus might take shot at puck tracking

  - 2008-05-12

  The NHL and cable TV partner Versus are talking about introducing "puck-tracking" technology as early as the 2008-09 season, executives from the network and the league told USA TODAY. Tracking would make it easier for TV viewers to follow the fast-moving puck. But the idea brought...

  Tags: Cable, Games, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, NHL, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USA Today

• Bubble could burst for 11 series

  - 2008-04-07

  This season, only 11 network series are "on the bubble" between renewal and cancellation; the fate of the others already has been decided. Let USA TODAY, and the networks, know how you feel about the shows whose futures are uncertain. Cast a...

  Tags: ABC Inc., bubble, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, USA Today

• Would you confess to cheating?

  - 2008-01-03

  Will Smith's Hitler comments were taken out of context As someone whose father narrowly escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and who has researched and written about this time period, I am not one to take lightly comments that invoke Hitler's name. However, the Will Smith controversy...

  Tags: Al-Jazeera, Government, NETWORKING, USA Today

• Desertion distortion

  - 2007-12-24

  ITEM: The Associated Press reported on November 16: "Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003." ITEM: On November...

  Tags: Associated Press, INTERNET, Iraq, NETWORKING, soldier, U.S., USA Today

• Seasonal sizzlers in Caribbean

  - 2007-11-16

  With ramped-up air service, the Caribbean's first oceanfront water park, an environmentally sensitive hotel and other new attractions, the Caribbean is poised for high season. USA TODAY'S Jayne Clark highlights some of the 2007-08 season's hottest new developments. The Bahamas The sprawling...

  Tags: attraction, Bahamas, Cable, DVD, JetBlue Airways Corp., NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USA Today

• Gibson is not the retiring kind

  - 2007-05-17

  NEW YORK -- ABC's Charles Gibson, who is emerging as the USA's most-watched network news anchor, was set to retire next month. Instead, as his one-year anniversary on World News approaches, Gibson is beating NBC's Brian Williams most weeks and regularly trouncing CBS' Katie Couric who,...

  Tags: ABC Inc., CBS Corp., Gibson, Government, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, USA Today

• 'Bubbles' surface for NBC

  - 2007-05-04

  Top percentage of votes to keep show: NBC is fourth in the ratings but first in the hearts of TV fans: The results of USA TODAY's 10th annual Save Our Shows survey reveal that among endangered series, viewers most want the peacock network's struggling crop to...

  Tags: NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, USA Today

• Calling all psychics: It's contest time again

  - 2007-01-02

  Consider how strange this year will be in media. Homer Simpson will go belly-to-belly with Shrek. YouTube's audience will continue to soar higher than a Diet Coke and Mentos fountain. AT&T will launch into the satellite business. And DreamWorks co-founder David Geffen will run the presses at the Los Angeles...

  Tags: DreamWorks SKG, DVR, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, media, NETWORKING, satellite, TVs, USA Today, YouTube Inc.

• FCC chief considers forcing cable TV competition

  - 2005-08-23

  NEW YORK -- One little-noticed provision of the 1992 Cable Act could give the Federal Communications Commission the power to compel cities to let the regional Bells compete head-on with cable TV operators. And to do so quickly -- no foot-dragging allowed. At least that's what FCC Chairman Kevin...

  Tags: broadband, Cable, chairman, FCC, Government, MARKETING, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USA Today, video

• Parties lob accusations over suspect papers

  - 2004-09-22

  John Kerry's campaign and the Democratic Party on Tuesday sparred with Republicans about who was to blame for CBS' use of possibly forged documents that were critical of President Bush's service in the Air National Guard. As the network's apology Monday for relying on unverified photocopies became ammunition for...

  Tags: Bush, CBS Corp., Democratic Party, NETWORKING, Republican, USA Today