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by Staff -- Multichannel News, 11/2/2009 2:00:00 AM

Cablevision Launches 'Quick View’ Mosaics

Bethpage, N.Y.Cablevision Systems has rolled out iO TV Quick View, three new channels that display “mosaics” of nine different kids’, sports and news networks on a single screen.

The Quick View channels, available to Cablevision’s digital-cable subscribers customers with a set-top box, is being delivered through technology developed by San Jose, Calif.-based ActiveVideo Networks (formerly known as ICTV).

The Kids Quick View channel features Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Boomerang, Discovery Kids, Disney XD, Nicktoons, Nick Jr. and Kids Thirteen.

The News mosaic includes MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, CNN Headline News, Bloomberg TV, BBC World News, and Cablevision’s News 12 and News 12 Traffic & Weather, while Sports Quick View displays MSG, MSG Plus, YES Network, ESPN, ESPN2, Speed Channel, Golf Channel, SNY and Versus.

Comcast Media Center Flips Open Yellow Pages

DenverComcast Media Center is taking the wraps off a Yellow Pages on TV interactive application for small and midsize operators, as part of its official commercial launch of the HITS Advanced Interactive Services suite.

HITS AxIS, which has been in beta-test period for about a year, delivers interactive TV applications based on CableLabs’ Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format and Tru2way platforms.

The Yellow Pages on TV EBIF-based app from FourthWall Media (formerly BIAP) offers a complete listing of local merchants available in a consumer’s area at the push of a button on a digital-cable television remote. Yellow Pages on TV is designed to let local cable operators generate new incremental advertising revenue, and it also allows merchants to integrate video advertising with their listings.

As part of the agreement with FourthWall, HITS AxIS will handle all of the distribution and launch management required to make Yellow Pages on TV operational.

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