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Todd Spangler

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Todd Spangler joined Multichannel News as technology editor in October 2006. Previously, he was an editor at Ziff Davis Media's Baseline; Byte and Switch, an online storage-networking publication; PC Magazine; and Interactive Week. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Title: Technology Editor

Email: todd.spangler@reedbusiness.com

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Advertisers: TV Ads Ain't What They Used to Be

UPDATE: The Multichannel News/B&C event scheduled for Wednesday morning in New York, Advanced Advertising: The Future is Now , has been rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 22, from 3-6 p.m. because of the impending winter storm . The venue is still the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. ————————— The lament is familiar: 62% of... More

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Cord Cutter Caves, Comes Back to Cable

What happens when you find out Hulu doesn’t satiate your TV diet? You go back to paying for the programming you can’t get for free. There’s been a popular story line kicking around in the mainstream press and among techno-bloggers: that a rising number of “cord cutters” will cancel their pay-TV service because they’re able to find so much video for... More

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Comcastic? No, It's All Gonna Be 'Xfinity'

If you hated the Xfinity name that Comcast picked for its TV Everywhere service, get ready to cringe even more (see Comcast Counts To ‘Xfinity’ ). Comcast is rebranding all of its cable services as Xfinity, executives said on today’s Q4 2009 earnings call (see Comcast To Launch Xfinity Rebranding Campaign ). The journey to Xfinity will begin next week in 11... More

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ManuteTube

Before YouTube became a worldwide smash hit — not to mention a money-hemorrhaging beast — Ian Blaine had an idea: Project Manute. Blaine is co-founder and CEO of thePlatform, now a Comcast subsidiary that provides Internet video-publishing tools to MSOs and content providers. He recalls that around 2003 he was kicking around the notion of a site that would let anyone... More

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The Week in Numbers

Some key stats and figures from the past week: * 105,000: Number of basic video customers Time Warner Cable lost in Q4 (see Time Warner: Subs Down, Dividend Up In Q4 ). * 153,000: Net adds for FiOS TV in the fourth quarter — but that’s well off Verizon’s pace in the first half of 2009 — bringing the telco to 2.9 million total video subs (see FiOS Hits... More
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