INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS & INFORMATION PROVIDERS
Cable Online provides links to several cable industry related Web sites.
DBS Online provides links to direct broadcast satellite industry contacts and resources.
The Cable Services Bureau (CSB) implements the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 by: promoting the availability to the public of cable television service; promoting competition in the cable marketplace; ensuring growth and development in the cable industry; and ensuring reasonable rates for consumers in areas that do not have competition to the cable system.
The Hollywood Reporter's web site for the filmed entertainment industry featuring updated news summaries, the week's top business stories and a searchable archive of stories that have appeared in the print edition of The Hollywood Reporter.
Media Central is an online resource for television, cable, radio and direct broadcast satellite media executives published by Cowles New Media featuring Media Daily, Direct Newsline and Cowles Business Media Publications.
Multichannel News ' Web site provides the current week's important news to the cable TV and telecommunications industries both domestically and internationally.
| National Cable Television Association (NCTA) |
NCTA 's Web site is comprehensive in scope and focused on providing information on cable technology, cable programming and new developments to the Industry.
PK Baseline is one of the most comprehensive online information services for the entertainment and media communications industries. Subscribers can access: credits, synopses, awards and more for over 50,000 films, TV series, specials and made for TV movies, current production details, personnel listings, addresses and phone numbers of thousands of companies and corporate players, current and archived editions of Paul Kagan's DBS Report Newsletter, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Cable World magazine and the newswires. box office estimates and actuals, video rentals, production costs, print and ad costs.
| Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association (SBCA) |
The SBCA is composed of satellite manufacturers, system operators, equipment manufacturers, distributors, retailers, DBS companies, encryption vendors and programmers. The Web site features a Satellite Virtual Marketplace, Retail Referral Database, Consumer Information, Sky REPORT and Sky FORUM.
SkyREPORT is published by Media Business Corp., and has provided the satellite industry with a daily news and research summary since 1995 and is available via e-mail.
| SRDS - Cable & TV Source (SRDS) |
The SRDS publications and directories have been the foundation of every solid media buy for over 78 years - they are the "meeting place" where the nation's buyers and sellers of media converge and millions of dollars are exchanged daily.
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