A&E Buys Rights to Rerun 'Sopranos'
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A&E agreed to pay at least $2.5 million per episode to rerun HBO's "The Sopranos," beginning in fall 2006.
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The Patriots-Giants game will now be available to the entire nation under an agreement reached by NBC and CBS to simulcast it.
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NBC Universal said on Tuesday it has  agreed to buy Sparrowhawk Media, which owns the international  operations of the Hallmark Channel, confirming an earlier  Reuters report.
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Cartoon Network has  bought the Japanese anime series "Blood+" for its Adult Swim  latenight programming block.
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U.S. cable network operator ESPN Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy the London-based cable channel NASN Ltd. as part of its strategy to broadcast more American sports in Europe.
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iTunes customers in the UK can now purchase and download hit television programming from ABC Studios, the Disney Channel, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Comedy for Â£1.89 an episode. The programming includes such shows as the Emmy Award-winning series âLost,â âDesperate Housewives,â âGreyâs Anatomy,â and âUgly Betty,â as well as locally-produced UK series, including MTVâs âBarrio 19,â Nickelodeonâs âGenie in the House,â and Paramount Comedyâs âComedy Blue.â
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NBC Universal said yesterday it will sell episodes of its new fall television shows using Amazon's Unbox digital download service, after the network failed to reach an agreement with Apple Inc. last week to offer the shows on iTunes.
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DirecTV Group DTV.N the largest U.S.  satellite television service, will buy its controlling  shareholder News Corp Ltd.'s NCP.AX stakes in Sky Latin  America for $579 million and combine its operations with  DirecTV Latin America, the companies said on Monday.
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By David Lieberman  NEW YORK -- Some 19 years after CBS sold its recorded music operation to Sony, the TV network company is getting back into the music business -- but with a more contemporary beat.
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A month after he abruptly disappeared from TV screens, Tony Soprano was back to grab a piece of the Emmy action on Thursday as HBO's mob drama led the field of network series nominated for U.S. television's highest honors.
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America's favorite mob family, "The Sopranos," is favored to rub out the competition at Sunday's Primetime Emmy Awards and notch a place in the record books of U.S. television's top honors along the way.
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It didn't take very long for NBC Universal to find a new outlet for its programming following its break with Apple. The channel's shows will now be available through Amazon for the same price they were on iTunes.
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A&amp;E won a bidding war Monday for the rights to broadcast edited versions of "The Sopranos," with the &#36;2.5 million per episode price tag believed to be the biggest ever for a series offered in syndication.
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Q: I know that analog TV is going off the air next February and that I can keep using my old analog set with a digital converter box, but I can't find any at a reasonable price. So what good is a $40 coupon from the government for the purchase of a converter?
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AOL said Monday that it had reached an agreement with NBC to stream two of its new fall series to AOL users, the second time the network has turned to unconventional means to promote its shows.
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MACQUARIE Communications Infrastructure Group, owner of most of Australia&#39;s TV and telco transmission towers, has begun its offshore expansion with a Â£1.27 billion ($3.1 billion) deal to buy Britain&#39;s second-biggest transmission group.
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HBO, one of the few remaining holdouts from online video, is jumping in and offering viewers "Sopranos" on the go.  On Tuesday, the pay-cable network unveils HBO On Broadband, featuring 400 hours of movies and original series that can be downloaded t...