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The retransmission war is heating up in Washington. A group of major cable operators, satellite TV providers DirecTV and Dish Network, and Verizon filed a petition Tuesday with the Federal Communications Commission urging a review and changes to the law that governs negotiations between broadcast TV station owners and cable, satellite and telco operators for carriage of local stations.

Sony will begin selling 3D TVs in Japan on June 10 and worldwide at about the same time, it said Tuesday. A firmware upgrade to its PlayStation 3 console that...

A coalition of media justice and public interest organizations sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski yesterday, calling on the agency to make increased diversity in the media and broadband communications landscape a top priority.

SNL Kagan has provided some data showing that, when it comes to cable, you are paying a lot for channels you probably never watch.

The TV spats of the past few weeks -- between Cablevision and the Walt Disney Company over payments for ABC, and between Time Warner and the News Corporation over Fox -- suggest that the future lies in the opposite direction from free.

Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups.

Walt Disney, fresh from a dispute with Cablevision, may be about to do it again with bigger cable operators.

Susan Crawford continues her explanation of the debate over classifying Internet service "telecommunications" or "information."

The Oscar statuette became a pawn in a public brawl between the Walt Disney Company and Cablevision on Sunday, a dispute that prevented more than three million viewers from watching the beginning of the Academy Awards show until a tentative agreement restored the signal 14 minutes into the telecast.

Whatever the pluses and minuses, a trend that took root in local television is spreading to the pricier precincts of network news as well.