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Aereo Welcomes Supreme Court Intervention in Fight With TV Broadcasters

Online television startup Aereo Inc. said it would welcome the Supreme Court’s intervention to resolve a legal fight with broadcasters, who argue its service violates their copyrights.

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FCC Unlikely to Bless a Comcast-TWC Deal, Says Regulator

Any effort by Comcast Corp. to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. would face significant hurdles in Washington, according to a Federal Communications Commission official, casting doubt on a cable-industry consolidation scenario that has grabbed Wall Street’s attention.

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Amazon Mines Its Data Trove to Bet on TV’s Next Hit

(Some) Big Data comes to (Web) TV.

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Cable Fights to Feed “Binge” TV Viewers

Big pay-TV operators including Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.’s FiOS are taking steps to vastly expand their on-demand TV offerings.

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Dish, Disney Gird for Showdown Over ESPN

Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen has long railed against the high cost of sports on TV. Now he has a chance to do something about it.

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Sony Reaches Preliminary Programming Deal With Viacom for Online Pay TV Service

Sony plans to stream traditional cable channels, as well as on-demand content, over the Internet, posing new competition for cable, satellite and phone companies which have long sold subscription TV services.

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How Netflix Is Shaking Up Hollywood

When AMC Networks canceled its TV crime drama “The Killing” last year after two seasons, the show’s creators made a push to get it back on the air, believing they could correct the missteps that had caused an ardent fan base to lose interest. They got some help from an unlikely source: Netflix Inc.

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Hulu Bids Depend on TV-Show Rights

The big media companies that created Hulu endowed the online video provider with arguably its most valuable asset: Access to the current seasons of hit network-TV shows.

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TV Networks Play to “Second Screen”

Last weekend, members of the cast and crew of AMC Networks Inc.’s crime drama “The Killing” were on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, shooting material for Sunday’s season premiere. What they produced won’t be shown on television, though. It is meant for smartphones, tablets and laptops.

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Nielsen Gets Digital to Track Online TV Viewers

Broadcast and cable networks, including NBC, Fox, ABC, Univision, Discovery and A+E, have signed up for the pilot program for “Nielsen Digital Program Ratings,” which will happen over the next few months before a broader commercial rollout later this year.