HBO's 'Sopranos' Sale to A&E Channel Sets Record
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Cable television powerhouse HBO has  agreed to sell rerun rights for its hit mob drama "The  Sopranos" to the A&E cable network in a deal industry sources  put at a record $2.5 million per episode.
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The 59th annual Primetime Emmys and its farewell salute to "The Sopranos" was a ratings dud, averaging just over 13 million viewers, the second-lowest number on record for the awards, Nielsen Media Research reported on Monday.
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HBO miniseries &#39;Angels in America&#39; clearly stole the limelight at last night&#39;s Emmy Awards by winning a record seven awards out of the total sixteen that the cable channel won.
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Bids totaled nearly $13.9 billion in the latest and most lucrative auction of the public airwaves.
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NEW YORK  - A&E wants to score points with an innovative online game aimed at attracting viewers to "The Sopranos," which begins its syndicated run on the cable channel January 10.
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Miami media mogul Ed Ansin , who owns WHDH-TV (Channel 7) in Boston, said yesterday that he plans to buy WLVI-TV (Channel 56) for $113.7 million and make over its 10 p.m. newscast to appeal to a younger demographic.
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Time Warner Inc.&#39;s HBO cable network led the 56th annual primetime Emmys with 16 awards, helped by its mini-series ``Angels in America&#39;&#39; and its crime drama ``The Sopranos,&#39;&#39; -- the shows with the most awards.
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Millions of US viewers tune in for the finale of The Sopranos, to learn the fate of mob boss Tony Soprano.
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Acclaimed TV gangster saga "The Sopranos" won the Emmy Award as best drama on Sunday for its final season on HBO, becoming the first American series to clinch that prize after ending its prime-time run.
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The high bids totalled $3.2 billion in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission&#39;s&#160;auction of wireless spectrum licenses in the 700MHz band&#160;after three rounds and a day and a half of bidding.That figure is far short of the $10 billion Congress and the FCC expect to raise in&#160;the auction, which opened Thursday, but bidding could continue for weeks. In most cases, the high bids don&#39;t yet meet the FCC&#39;s reserve price set for minimum winning bids.A fourth round of bidding will happen Friday afternoon.The 700MHz auctions represent the last large chunk of spectrum available for the FCC to auction in the foreseeable future. The spectrum, now used to carry over-the-air television signals, can be used to carry long-range wireless broadband traffic. Consumer groups have said the spectrum represents the &quot;last, best hope&quot; for a nationwide wireless broadband network that competes with cable and telecom broadband services.For sale is 62MHz of spectrum in the 700MHz band. In late 2005, after a decade of debate, Congress passed a law requiring U.S. TV stations to move to all-digital broadcasts and abandon analog spectrum between channels 52 and 69. The deadline for TV stations to end broadcasts in the 700MHz band is February 2009.After three rounds, 906 of the 1,099 available spectrum licenses had bids, with four more licenses receiving bids than at the end of round two late Thursday. High bids had totalled just under $2.8 billion after round 2, and just over $2.4 billion after round one Thursday morning.The top bid after the third round was $1.49 billion for eight of 12 regional licenses in the C block, a 22MHz block of spectrum covering all 50 states. The bidding for those C block licenses was up from $1.24 billion at the end of the second round. The FCC&#39;s reserve price for the C block is $4.6 billion, and the winning bidders of C block spectrum must allow any legal devices to connect to their network, including mobile phones purchased from other carriers.The second highest bid remained $472 million for the D block, a nationwide 10MHz chunk of spectrum to be paired with another 10MHz set aside for public safety agencies. The bidder of the D block would be required to build a national network to be jointly used by public safety agencies and commercial customers. The high bid for the D block has remained unchanged since round one.Bidding in the auction is anonymous.The A block, a 12MHz piece of spectrum covering parts of New York and the northeastern U.S., also generated interest. The high bid was $119.8 million after the third round, up from $100 million after the second round and $83.2 million after the first round. A similar chunk of spectrum in the E block, also covering the same area, has generated a high bid of $59.9 million after the third round.The high bid for a 12MHz block called the B block, for a local New York City license, stood at $85.6 million after rounds two and three.High bids for five blocks in the Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., areas were between $28 million and $55 million after round three.
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LOS ANGELES Sept. 19, 2004 - &quot;The Sopranos&quot; became the first cable show to win the Emmy for best drama series Sunday and fellow HBO entry &quot;Angels in America&quot; received a record 11 awards as Fox&#39;s surprise
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HBO is entering the  Japanese television market.
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The cable network HBO has dominated the 56th annual Emmy Awards with their shows The Sopranos and Angels in America taking the top awards.
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An estimated 11.9 million people watched Sunday's finale of HBO's "The Sopranos" &#151; and every one of them seemed to have an opinion about the series' open-ended conclusion.
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Business & money: Cable company says it has received a takeover bid and is considering potential sale.
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Will radio star Howard Stern do for satellite radio what The Sopranos did for cable? Mr. Stern, host of the raunchy, top-rated drive-time radio show, signed a $500-million, five-year contract with satellite
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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.