Time Warner Cable Re-ups With Viacom; ESPN Eyes ‘BCS Megacast’

Top Stories - December 27, 2013 Time Warner Cable Re-ups With Viacom Time Warner Cable continued its flurry of year-end carriage deals, agreeing to a long-term multiplatform agreement with Viacom that includes the programmer's flagship cable channels as well as its movie service, Epix. The multiplatform agreement, which also includes Bright House Networks, provides for continued carriage of Viacom's channels and content across linear television in both SD and HD, VOD, authenticated websites and apps. TWC subscribers also gain access to on-demand content within apps from Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1, CMT, and Comedy Central. more ESPN's FSU-Auburn Game Plan: 'BCS Megacast' For college football's big game, ESPN is going mega. The sports programming giant will tilt all six of its TV platforms, plus audio and digital plays, toward its "BCS Megacast" presentation of the Vizio BCS National Championship between Florida State and Auburn on Monday, Jan. 6, at 8:30 p.m. (ET). The gambit builds on ESPN's "Full Circle" presentations featuring various coverage approaches to a single event across multiple TV and digital networks and radio platforms beginning in 2006. The megacast move also precedes multiple-telecast coverage of the 2014 Final Four. more Sources: FCC In No Rush To Decide Comcast OVD Condition Comcast will apparently have to wait a while longer to find out whether it can get access to over-the-top programming contracts. According to FCC sources, the commission is unlikely to take any action anytime soon on an item circulated last August affirming a Media Bureau decision that a Comcast representative should be able to get access to programming contracts under the Comcast/NBCU benchmark deal condition on access to content by online providers. more TWC's Britt Cashes In $6.3 Million In Options As his 40-year career at Time Warner Cable draws to a close, chairman and CEO Glenn Britt has benefitted from the run-up in his company's stock price over the past 12 months, exercising stock options in November and December as part of an automatic trading program and reaping a profit of about $6 million. Britt is slated to retire at year's end. more Video/Blogs MCN Hot Spot AMC's Streaming Movie Service 'Yeah!' On The Money, Mike Farrell The Other Consolidation Wave: Station Stocks Rise On Actual Deals As I Was Saying, Gary Arlen Casting Wars A Factor In Telco Wireless Assault Picture This, R. Thomas Umstead Cable Network Marathons: Old-School Binge Viewing News IP-Connected TV Devices Set For a Surge Video Server Revenue Lags In 2013 SeaChange Touts Multiscreen Mix At CES TCM Remembers Fontaine, O'Toole On Dec. 29 Showtime Launches 'Penny Dreadful' Production Blog Disney's Iger Reels In $34.3 Million In 2013 Disney Names Twitter Founder To Board Vice President of Law, Product Management and Compliance - Cablevision - Bethpage, NY Local Sales Manager - WADL TV - Southfield, MI Director Product Marketing Management - AT&T - Los Angeles, CA Vice President - Controller - Mediatti Broadband Communications - Kadena, Okinawa Residential Bulk Account Manager - Metrocast - Oxford, MS See all career listings here.   ©2013 NewBay Media, LLC

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