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Biography for Jim O'Neill

Jim O'Neill is the editor of FierceOnlineVideo and FierceIPTV. He has more than 30 years of experience writing, editing and managing daily newspapers. He's also an entrepreneur, having founded an alternative weekly newspaper, a coffee roasting and distribution company and a strength and conditioning consultancy that uses online video to train athletes worldwide. He is based in Michigan and can be reached at jimo@fiercemarkets.com.

Articles by Jim O'Neill

Live TV is dying, advertisers likely to spend $9B anyway

With DVR penetration nearing 50 percent of American households, and with the majority of homes already watching video on demand, Americans are slowly moving away from a former mainstay of television

Are consumers happy with their pay-TV services? Survey says… No

Shoot a 66 at the golf course and your buddies are likely to give you a hard time for scoring so well (and, possibly offer to bankroll you on your way to the PGA). But score a 66 out of 100 on a

AT&T puts U-verse TV on Xbox on indefinite hiatus

Hoping to use an Xbox to access AT&T's (NYSE: T) U-verse TV? You may be in for a bit of a wait, as the telco has pulled the hardware kit that allowed users to use the game console as a "spare"

AT&T launches U-verse TV and Internet service in Ottawa, Kan.

AT&T (NYSE: T) U-verse Internet and U-verse TV are now available in Ottawa, Kan., continuing the telco's expansion in the Sunflower State. The company said the service now passes more than

Ensequence gets $26M in latest funding round

The concept of smart TVs and their potential to connect with consumers has been fueling venture capital investment in the space of late, especially in the area of app development. The latest company

Elemental lands Columbus Communications for video play in LatAm, Caribbean

Transcoding vendor Elemental Technologies, which last year added Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) and Avail-TVN to its customer roster, today said it would power Columbus' multiscreen video roll out in Latin

SeaChange wraps up spinoff of broadcast server, storage unit

Video-on-demand software specialist SeaChange International (Nasdaq: SEAC) said it has closed the sale of its broadcast server and storage business to XOR Media, completing its first major step

Harmonic debuts Iris 2.0 with improved end-to-end monitoring of bandwidth and video

Harmonic (Nasdaq: HLIT) has rolled out a new iteration of its video-quality monitoring and analytics software suite, this one delivering a more robust end-to-end video-monitoring and analysis

Frontier CEO: OTT video 'more important than anything else'

Frontier Communications (Nasdaq: FTR) reported first-quarter 2012 revenue dipped nearly 7 percent, to $1.27 billion, from $1.35 billion a year ago, and continued to shed the FiOS customers it

Small Canadian ISP has plan to sell IPTV nationwide

A Canadian ISP that just recently began reselling Bell's IPTV service in greater Montreal wants to offer its product across Canada, saying it will compete by offering "more channels for a lower