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For years, airlines controlled what passengers saw on their cabin screens, editing out scenes of graphic violence or sex, and banning movies altogether if they showed airline crashes. But now, with three U.S. airlines offering live television feeds and on-board Internet access expected to be available within a year, passengers can see anything they want -- even news coverage of an event in which they might be taking part. After the drama aboard JetBlue Flight 292 unfolded live on television Wednesday, executives of Denver-based Frontier Airlines, which like JetBlue shows DirectTV on its flights, began to rethink their policy of...

MIAMI — A federal judge has ordered former football star O.J. Simpson to pay $25,000 in damages for pirating satellite television signals from DirecTV. U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard awarded the damages, plus attorneys' fees and other costs, after granting a motion for summary judgment in a civil suit against Simpson. In a raid on Simpson's Miami home in 2001, federal agents seized illegal devices known as "bootloaders" that authorities said were used to steal television programming. Simpson's attorney, Yale Galanter, said Tuesday that the judge "basically denied us our right to a jury trial. ... This was a decision...

Pegasus unit files for Chapter 11 The Associated Press 6/2/2004, 11:50 p.m. ET BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) — Pegasus Communications Corp.'s satellite television unit filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to prevent DirecTV Group Inc. and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative from ending a satellite distribution pact and shutting out Pegasus. Earlier Wednesday, DirecTV and the NRTC said they would terminate an exclusive DirecTV service distribution agreement, giving members and affiliates a chance to sign new contracts directly with DirecTV instead of through the NRTC. Terminating the agreement effectively cuts out Pegasus Satellite Television, which currently distributes DirecTV to rural...

Universal Music Mulls Music TV Venture NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest record label, is teaming up with satellite broadcaster DirecTV and business partners behind a prominent pornography video company to launch a music channel featuring uncensored videos. According to a report on Friday in the Los Angles Times Universal, a unit of Vivendi Universal_(NYSE:V - news), is in negotiations with DirecTV to offer the new subscription-based channel, known as "1 AM." Universal and the entrepreneurs of Vivid Entertainment Group founders, which is known for porn videos such as "Bad Wives" and "Women In Uniform," are...

Does anyone have a listing of the DirectTV channels that will be showing the Midnight Mass tonight?

Just announced on shep's show.

'Reel' effort in Berwick By LAURI SHEIBLEY Press Enterprise Writer BERWICK — A "Harry Potter" film will be shown free Saturday night on a giant screen in Ber-Vaughn Park. It's part of a campaign by GMP Communications to woo customers back to cable television. In the past few years, some customers have been shifting from the Hazleton cable firm to direct broadcast services. GMP is now trying to get those customers back, upgrading services and launching a series of community events. Prior to Saturday's movie, GMP will set up displays and demonstrations in the park to inform customers about the...

This morning I decided to let BRAVO have an earful. Here is my email:"As a DirecTV subscriber, I am notifying you I am permanently blocking BRAVO from my menu on my DSS receiver.Your push for homosexual-'friendly' programming demonstrates your pandering to an audience that exhibits behavior that is not only detrimental to their own health, but the health and safety of families everywhere. I refuse to risk allowing my children to see promo material on your channel, so I find it necessary to block BRAVO and will encourage others to do so. Your advertisers will no longer reach me or...

WASHINGTON - A move to ease rules governing ownership of newspapers and television and radio stations will not lead to "a massive wave of mergers," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell says. In a vote set for Monday, Powell and two fellow Republicans on the five-member commission were expected to allow companies to buy more television stations and, in some cases, own both a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city. Diverse interests opposed to deregulation say relaxed rules will kick off a merger frenzy, putting a few large companies in control of what people see, hear and...