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ON TELEVISION (MONDAY 1/4/10)
ABC: The Bachelor: On The Wings Of Love (Premiere) at 8pm
ABC: Conveyor Belt Of Love (Premiere) at 10pm
PBS: Antiques Roadshow (Premiere) at 8pm
PLANET GREEN: Emeril Green (Premiere) at 8pm
PLANET GREEN: Blood, Sweat & Takeaways (Premiere) at 10pm
VH1: I Want To Work For Diddy (Finale) at 10pm
After months of tense negotiations and going past a December 31 deadline, News Corp. and Time Warner Cable hammered out a retransmission consent deal in principal on New Year’s Day. The agreement keeps the Fox networks on TWC’s 13 million homes and on two million additional homes served by Bright House Networks. Terms of the deal were not revealed though originally News Corp. was asking for approximately $1 per subscriber for the Fox-owned broadcast stations while TWC countered with an offer of around 35 cents per subscriber. The culmination of a New Year’s deal also allowed TWC’s customers to view the college bowl games uninterrupted.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Following the TWC-News Corp. agreement to keep Fox-owned networks on the air, Scripps Networks Interactive took its Food Network and HGTV off of Cablevision systems in New York, Long Island and the Tri-State area as of midnight on January 1. In this region, about three million viewers were affected because the two companies could not come to terms over distribution fees. Scripps Networks is seeking what the company equates to a “modest increase” over its less than 25 cents per subscriber it currently receives for both Food Network and HGTV combined.
(Source: Cynopsis)
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
Avatar – $68.3 million
Sherlock Holmes – $38.4 million
Alvin And The Chipmunks – $36.6 million
It’s Complicated – $18.7 million
The Blind Side – $12.7 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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