MCHENRY — If you’re dreaming of a family vacation at Deep Creek Lake that you wouldn’t mind sharing with millions of television viewers, this story is for you. The sponsors of a PBS reality show called “Getting Away Together” say ...

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Baltimore Orioles TV ratings are up on MASN, according to Nielsen Research. Through the team’s first 26 games of the 2011 season, the household audience in the Baltimore market overall is 24 percent larger than it was last year. That ...

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Television broadcasting company Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. reported a 33 percent increase in profits for the first quarter of 2011, driven by strong ad spending during the Super Bowl in February. Hunt Valley-based Sinclair said Wednesday it had net broadcast ...

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So, I was checking out the pandemonium next to TDR‘s offices Wednesday morning for Gov. William Donald Schaefer’s funeral service at Old St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Lots of police and lots of citizens lining up to be seated — well before ...

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WASHINGTON — New Internet video services from companies such as Netflix and Apple are offering a glimpse of a home entertainment future that doesn’t include a pricey monthly cable bill. To challenge the cable TV industry’s dominance in the living ...

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Within hours of the announcement that Hughes Communication Inc. would be acquired by EchoStar Corp. in a $2 billion deal, no fewer than seven law firms announced they would be opening an investigation into the agreement, with a possible class-action ...

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As the Sinclair Broadcast/Time Warner Cable spat over fees drags on, one industry analyst says the Hunt Valley-based television station owner could find itself on the losing side of the argument. Sinclair and Time Warner have been in a standoff ...

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The once-celebrated Maryland Public Television-produced financial news program Wall $treet Week is back, sort of. The program, off the air since 2005, has been revived as an online-only publication focusing on long-term financial advice. Jeff Salkin, anchor of MPT’s State ...

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I know the big, sexy TVs out there are hard to resist, especially now that the manufacturers are talking about “The NFL Live in 3D in your living room.” But I’m going to try to save you a lot of ...

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LOS GATOS, Calif. — Netflix introduced a new plan Monday that, for the first time, relies solely on video streamed over the Internet rather than the DVDs that it has mailed to customers since the company was founded more than ...

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