NBC is continuing to profit from huge audiences for the London Olympics.
While critics continue to complain about the lack of live broadcasts in primetime, viewers do not seem to mind too much.
NBC garnered an average of 36 million viewers for the primetime coverage on Sunday. For TV folk this translates to a 19.3 rating and a 33 share. Trust me this is huge. The Sunday night telecast included swimming and women's gymnastics which are, as usual, proving to be popular with viewers. More from Multichannel News
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Following a Federal Communications Commission decision Comcast has requested to stay enforcement of the July 24 ruling. The FCC ruling requires Comcast to provide the Tennis Channel with broader coverage similar to the coverage it provides owned channels like the Golf Channel and Versus. When Comcast purchased NBC one of the concerns was the favoritism Comcast would show owned channels that would be a disadvantage to other similar channels.
Comcast plans to appeal the FCC decision on the grounds that it is inconstitutional and use the dissent of the Republican commissioners to bolster its case.
Comcast is certain the ruling will be overturned in Federal Court and requires the stay to avoid an "unprecedented burden" on the company.
Comcast is also planning to develop pricing tiers and throttling internet access to its customers. More from Multichannel News
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The Obama campaign continues to use the "blame anyone else" mantra for eceonomic woes created by the Obama administration policies
While the "blame Bush" mantra is losing its luster, the Obama campaign is turning to Europe to find someone to blame.
"We're going to have some continued headwinds over the next several months,"Obama said addressing a group of high rollers paying $40,000 to hear the same old blame game.
Several European countries have embarked on austerity programs to reign in spending and debt. Meanwhile, Obama continues to call for more spending, more taxes and more debt.
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Congressional leaders have decided to surprise - no one.
Neither the House or Senate will unveil a stopgap measure to keep the government running after September 30. Instead both houses of Congress will do nothing until the end of the week when a five week recess begins.
So, it is business as usual from elected officials.
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There have been stories within the past few months that the Obama campaign spends money like the Obama administration. These stories have been rarely covered by the media, but from time to time one slips out.
This spending is causing concern, some would call panic, in the Obvama campaign as the presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney is finding cash from supporters and groups that support Romney's campaign.
The Obama campaign has held well over 160 fundraising events and yet is finding it hard to raise money and maintain it for the battle ahead.
In order to keep the president out of the White House during the final weeks of the campaign, the Obama campaign is planning a "flurry" of fundraisers. In upcoming weeks the campaign will host a number of high-roller fundraisers followed by a more than usual number of events after the convention.
Meanwhile the Romney campaign plans to shift focus to more events than fundraisers as the campaign heats up.
Obama campaign officials say they are looking for a "balanced" number of events. Does that mean high-roller events followed by cheap admission events.
Sounds like panic to me.
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