When it comes to the blue and gold, NBC is enduringly loyal. The network has agreed to a new five year deal with The University of Notre Dame to televise the college football games from the venerable college team, even though the Fighting Irish have not been a winning powerhouse for the past few years.

In fact, the Irish have been getting its butt kicked by the likes of USC, Michigan, Ohio State and the entire SEC regularly of late. Nevertheless, when it comes to Nielsen ratings, pleasing the advertisers and making the legion of Notre Dame fans happy, NBC steps up.

The new five-year agreement will give NBC the rights to televise all Irish home games through 2015. That's seven from Notre Dame Stadium and an extra home game not from the ND Stadium to air in primetime.

According to an SEC filing by TiVo, cable giant Comcast has spent $16.2 million to help develop a version of TiVo's software for Comcast set-top-boxes.

Comcast and TiVo had initially promised to launch a co-branded PVR with TiVo software by the end of last year, but that target date came and went. The next goal is to push out a finished product by June 30. Comcast and TiVo showed off a working unit at CES in January.

TiVo is also working on bringing its software to Cox Cable set-top-boxes, but it looks like that deal's on the slow-track for now. TiVo's SEC filing doesn't mention any revenues or expenses under that arrangement.

[via TiVo Lovers]