The already existing dispute between broadcasters and cable and pay-television providers over whether TV station owners can yank their channels during periodic fee disputes was further investigated by the Federal Communications Commission, this Friday.

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ITV HD channels will be able to bring the World Cup 2010, starting on the 2nd of April in South Africa, to the Sky and Virgin Media customers, without them having to spend an extra penny.

Earlier, the HD viewers used to get the channel by illegal ways, i. e., by adding it through the other channel options, but they were unable to record it.

After Five was unsuccessful to suggest a launch date for Five HD, Ofcom has said that it will not appear on FreeView before 2012.

Last June, the media regulator had reached an interim decision to preserve capacity for Five on the new FreeView HD platform, with the aim of Five HD becoming available in 2010.

It is reported that Dennis Skulsky, the president of Canwest Global Communications Corp.'s newspaper and publishing division, which owns The Gazette, resigned yesterday.

The longtime print executive posted that the decision to leave the Winnipeg-based company is entirely his own as he wanted to be with his family.

Lions Gate Entertainment Incorporation, the leading independent filmed entertainment studio is requesting its investors to restrain themselves from getting hooked by the hostile move of Carl Icahn and thereby has promised to impede the billionaire's bid. Mr.

New York ABC television's broadcasts went through a blackout earlier this Sunday. ABC broadcasts were not available to Cablevision Systems Corp. customers, after disputes over monthly subscription fees failed to resolve between ABC owner Walt Disney Co. and Cablevision.

On Friday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology officially threw open the doors to its new MIT Media Lab Complex, which is the school's most popular interdisciplinary program.

As the decline in the revenue slowed down near the end of the year, Torstar Corp. managed to post higher profit in the year's last quarter. The stock raised 15% on Tuesday and 7.2% on Wednesday, closing at $7.77.

Viacom has planned to remove "The Daily Show", "The Colbert Report" and other comedy central programs from the online Hulu, next week. Due to the present incapacity of the service of protecting the rights, the hit political satires are being taken from its essential shelves.