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Cable companies, not surprisingly, have resisted, asking why they should pay for content that's broadcast over the airwaves to non-cable subscribers for free. They say they already give companies like Disney, which owns ABC, plenty of money - Disney gets about $200 million a year from Cablevision alone, for the right to carry cable networks like ESPN and the Disney Channel. (ESPN is reputed to get $4 per month per subscriber, the highest of any cable channel.) And any increases in costs, they note, will likely be passed on to consumers...
...Jersey or Connecticut on Sunday, you missed some classic TV: a closeup of Academy Award winner Mo'Nique's hairy legs on Barbara Walters' Oscar special, Kathy Ireland's freaky posture on the red carpet and Neil Patrick Harris singing about why inmates drop soap. That's because ABC cut off the signal of its New York City station to Cablevision subscribers just after midnight on Sunday morning, in a dispute over "retransmission fees," the money the cable company pays for carrying local broadcast stations. (See pictures of 2010 Oscar fashion...
...this dispute, ABC reportedly asked initially for about $1 per month per customer. Cablevision felt that that price, for programs that can be received for free over the air, was way too high. Negotiations, which have been going on for two years, came down to the wire as Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre filled with big frocks and bigger egos. In a high-stakes game of chicken, neither side would budge, each one blaming the other for the impending blackout of one of the year's highest-rated programs. The negotations, which had been vigorous, became frantic. Finally, "we found something...
...schooling, as well as several other women in similar situations. In 2006, the London Times reported that an estimated one in ten students attending a university knew someone who had at some point "stripped, lapdanced or worked at massage parlours and escort agencies to support themselves." In 2008, ABC reported a rise in the rates of prostitution and drug trafficking among school children in Papua New Guinea in order to "pay school fees." And last July, CBS’s Katie Couric told the stories of several college-attending American girls forced to turn to prostitution when economic circumstances...
...only a handful of reporters and producers to get their story before 50 million network-news viewers every night and all over the papers the next morning. By contrast, Obama's most recent prime-time news conference, which was carried live July 22 on cable news, NBC, CBS and ABC, reached a combined audience of 24.7 million, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University who studies presidential communications. To compensate, Obama's message advisers spent the first year keeping their boss on as many outlets as they could - with 129 press interviews in his first...