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• Martin cancels FCC meeting
  Washington—Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin canceled the agency's Dec. 18 meeting, which he was hoping to use as the start of an effort to limit the negotiating rights of hundreds of TV stations and all cable programmers.
• NBC, CBS prep originals for online
  Even though NBC has been wracked by huge layoffs and a tanking economy, the network’s digital division will start shooting a pilot this week for an online late-night talk show, one of nine planned Web shows for 2009.
• Virgin launches super-fast broadband
  LONDON — Virgin Media, the Nasdaq-quoted U.K. cable operator, is hoping to put further blue water between itself and main rival BSkyB by launching a super-fast broadband offer.

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2008 Video Hall of Fame cocktail party
The Video Hall of Fame cocktail party was held just before the gala event on Dec. 8 at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Photos by Lionel Cassini

Lisa Rinna gets Beautiful
Lisa Rinna celebrated the DVD release of her Dance Body Beautiful fitness titles, Learn & Burn and Jive, Jump, Ballroom Bump, on Dec. 9 at Belle Gray in Sherman Oaks, Calif. The DVDs will be released on Dec. 16 from Warner.

Image retail conference
Image held its first retail conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Dec. 9. The supplier reported a record fiscal year. Photos by Amy Graves

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