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Cablevision adds video subs, strikes Newsday deal
While some cable TV companies are taking an obvious hit from telco IPTV competition (see Comcast), others may not be seeing much of an impact. Cablevision Systems last week said it added 41,000 Read more...
Top European IPTV drivers
Western Europe leads the world in IPTV deployment, but big differences between country take-up rates reveal the key drivers and impediments critical to IPTV growth. Just seven of 17 Western European Read more...
Sewer pipes to deliver fiber cables
Many have dreamed of using the sewer lines to run high-speed cable networks into neighborhoods. No digging , easy access, protected from weather and, apart from the smell, far less problematic than Read more...
HBO makes online video hard
What is it about media companies? Time Warner may own one of the big internet portals, AOL, but when its subsidiary HBO released its new download product for HBO's widely acclaimed drama series, Read more...
FCC's Martin looking lonely
Just two weeks after FCC chief Kevin Martin floated his re-regulation of big cable idea, he looks decidedly isolated with fellow commissioners and congressional members of both flavors seriously Read more...
TiVo and cable team up
Switched video remains cable TV's principle weapon against telco and satellite incursions and for many is the reason why IPTV will struggle to make inroads in the U.S. market. Hence, why everyone Read more...
FCC cable numbers disputed
Federal Communications Commission chair Kevin Martin has a habit of detailing how the FCC will vote ahead of its actual meetings. But his plan to hit big cable with new regulations seems to have his Read more...
U-verse given the green light in Connecticut
AT&T has been granted a franchise for its IPTV U-verse service in Connecticut after a state court overturned a decision by the local utility regulator which required U-verse to have to get a Read more...
Connecticut franchise battle continues
The attorney general in Connecticut is not backing down in his quest to make sure AT&T's U-verse is subject to the same requirements as cable TV operations. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's Read more...
FiOS doesn't scare cable
Cable executives aren't coming undone over Verizon FiOSTV, according to reports that emerged from last week's Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference in New York. Comcast chief operating officer, Read more...
