Filed under: BROADCAST/CABLE | Tags: Arts, Biography Channel, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Starz, Staten Island, Television, Time Warner Cable, Verizon Communications
Oxygen attracted its best ratings and highest viewership for a Tuesday prime-time show as “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood” drew 1.1 million viewers this week. The show drew a 1.1 Nielsen household rating and grew 24% in total viewers compared with a week ago. Multichannel News (7/23)
MTV is preparing a remake of the wildly popular cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Casting and a premiere date are yet to be determined, but the two-hour update is expected to rely on the original script and may contain some new songs not in the 1975 original. Variety (7/23)
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Facing a looming competitive challenge from Verizon Communications in Manhattan, Time Warner Cable announced it had bulked up its high-definition menu in three boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Among the new HD offerings are Biography Channel, Starz Edge, Starz Kids & Family and Starz Comedy. Multichannel News (7/23)
Now that the two titans of satellite radio — XM and Sirius — have merged, why not the two big sat-TV firms, DirecTV and Dish Network? But analysts say there are two big obstacles to such a combination: federal regulators put the kibosh on such a deal a few years ago and there isn’t a natural seller. The Hollywood Reporter (7/23)
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