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Analyze This:
SEC wants to look closely at the private 2nd-market trading in Silicon Valley ... enough stockholders to force companies like
Facebook public?
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Rules & Regs: A 1k “likely voters” nationwide telephone poll by
Rasmussen Research (+/- 3% w/95% confidence) found only 21% favored the
FCC’s new net neutrality rules and any regulation of the internet.
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Retrans & Renewals:
Sinclair issued a press release saying
Time Warner Cable (TWC) rejected a Most Favored Nation (MFN) deal and ended negotiations ... so Sinclair will take its 33 stations off TWC systems serving some 8.5M “primary service units.” --- Here's TWC's statement: "Sinclair's statement is false. Time Warner Cable has at no time told Sinclair that we were terminating negotiations. To the contrary, it is Sinclair who has repeatedly over the last 3 months declared discussions to be at an end and this is more of the same from Sinclair. Time Warner Cable has presented Sinclair with at least three possible solutions, including arbitration for Sinclair's Big 4 stations. We remain open and willing to negotiate a reasonable agreement for our customers and have no intention of declaring negotiations to be at an end even in the event that Sinclair decides to pull their signals from Time Warner Cable on December 31st."
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Online: Add
Sears/
Kmart via
Sonic Solutions’ RoxioNow dubbed Alphaline (click
here) to the OTT mix.
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Retail:
Mastercard SpendingPulse says the 50-days ending 12/24/10 showed a 5.5% growth y/y in domestic retail sales.
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Programming:
Cablevision will carry
OWN. --- Some 125 prelim matches from
Ultimate Fighting Championship® will air on
ION starting Saturday. --- Take a look at the Top 10 most watched “cable” channels
here.
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Mobile:
Sprint launched 4G in San Francisco Bay Area. ---
AT&T continues to deploy Wi-Fi to aid its overworked network; now beefing up in NYC and San Francisco.
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Up, Over & Down There: London’s
Daily Mail says 63% in a poll don’t want
Rupert Murdoch to get all of
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