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Top four networks in Q3 2008 mirror those from last year.

Television Bureau of Advertising’s “electronic bridge between stations, agencies, rep firms” tops $100M in order volume.

PBS coverage of Sarah Palin's acceptance speech draws fewer viewers than Barack Obama's speech last week.

CableCARDs don’t appear to be going away anytime soon. The clunky conditional-access devices that add an estimated $50-$70 to the cost of a set-top have been deployed by major cable operators in more than 6.2 million digital set-tops since July 2007.

That’s when the FCC’s so-called integration-ban rules kicked in requiring operators to separate conditional access from the rest of a set-top’s functions.

Google's hard-hit shares surged 18 percent above $500 -- a level last seen in February -- as the company showed signs of better cost control and earned more revenue abroad than at home for the first time, partly because of the weak dollar.

50% broadband users in the UK are dissatisfied with their broadband providers according to a survey carried out by price comparison website uSwitch.

This is despite broadband generally being the cheapest and fastest it has ever been.