Comcast Apologizes for Super Bowl Porn

... if regulators approve pact with Time-Warner, Comcast

(NEWSER) - A new $3.6 billion deal between Verizon and three major cable TV companies is threatening to change a fierce rivalry between competitors into a partnership that critics fear would restrict consumer choice, reports the Washington Post . Mobile service, Internet, and cable TV providers have been locked in an intense battle for years, with each increasingly encroaching on the others' turf. But this deal—in which Comcast, Time Warner, and Brightline Cable would let Verizon access their unused cellphone airwaves in exchange for a "cooperative marketing arrangement"—would end that. More»

Commission aims to block media stranglehold

(NEWSER) - Comcast should only be able to go through with its plans to buy NBC Universal if it's willing to share the media giant’s content with its competitors, according to Julius Genachowski. The FCC chairman gave his conditional approval for the merger last week, proposing a set of rules that would force Comcast to allow rival cable providers and satellite TV companies access to NBC’s content at a reasonable price. More»

Channel will go less raunchy, more intimate, in effort to draw ladies

(NEWSER) - Now that you can get porn for free on your computer, Playboy TV is struggling to convince men to pay $15 a month for its soft-core offerings—some of which are even softer than HBO shows. Enter its new strategy: Market to the female audience. How? By adding a block of shows called "TV for 2," mostly reality-type shows that will still feature erotic content, but in a more contextualized and less raunchy fashion and with higher production values—which, studies show, is what most women want from their porn. More»

Turns out adult films are her calling

(NEWSER) - Apparently her career as a stripper wasn’t netting her quite enough dollar bills, because Amy Fisher has decided on a new life path: porn star. The Long Island Lolita, who first exposed herself to the world in a sex tape released by her then-estranged husband, made another adult film last year but had previously sworn, “I’m not going to be a porn star.” However, when your public calls… More»

(NEWSER) - Some things are certain: death, taxes, and Cinemax showing women with their shoes on having sex late at night. Soft-core porn is "in our DNA," an exec with the parent company of "Skinemax" tells the LA Times . "We're not running away from it." Neither are its premium-cable competitors, which are hardly relegating racier content to late night. Consider HBO's True Blood and Showtime's explicit Californication. More»