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As I Was Saying
As I Was Saying
By: Gary Arlen
Theater Owners Pressure Comcast To Abandon $60 Premium VOD Test
Comcast customers in Portland, Ore. and Atlanta may not get the opportunity to spend $59.99 to watch Tower Heist in late November. Regal Theaters has joined the Cinemark movie chain, threatening not to exhibit the Ben Stiller-Eddie Murphy action comedy if Universal Pictures (now a subsidiary of
BIT RATE
BIT RATE
By: Todd Spangler
Snow Goes From Moto to Video-to-Go Startup Morega
Longtime cable guy Buddy Snow has made the jump from Motorola Mobility to the startup world. Snow earlier this year -- prior to Google's official takeover of Motorola -- quietly joined Morega Systems, which designs and develops video-mobility solutions for pay TV service providers worldwide, as president and CEO.
Capital Letters
Capital Letters
By: John Eggerton
Goldman Puts Other ACA In The News
The ACA has been in the news a lot lately. But with due modesty to the pickup our coverage of the American Cable Association got last week online and in the magazine, it is a different ACA. The ACA that has been all over the Web, and probably wishes it hadn’t been, was ACA Capital Holdings,
MCN Guest Blog
MCN Guest Blog
By: Ken Roulier
And the Golden Globe for Best New TV Show Goes to…Amazon!
Whether you hate Game of Thrones, love Mad Men, get irritated by Suits or were annoyed when Arrested Development was cancelled, don’t you sometimes wish that you could be given the chance to decide which TV shows actually get made?
Mixed Signals
Mixed Signals
By: Jimmy Schaeffler
Intel TV (Part 2): Coming To A (lot of) Video Screen(s) Near You?
This week’s “Mixed Signals” follows-up on last week’s column, which was an introduction to Intel’s new venture into the world of video distribution, dubbed Intel TV (and all that that may lead to, perhaps including, for example, one day, the new 16-part miniseries by
My Turn
My Turn
By: Kent Gibbons
Home Stretch For Cable Positive Dinner
Can it really almost be time for the Cable Positive dinner? Yes. The HIV-AIDS information organization, producer of public service announcements and funder of local assistance outfits through six local chapters, will on March 4 host its biggest single fundraiser, a benefit event at the Marriott
On The Money
On The Money
By: Mike Farell
Help From an Unsung Source
Sometimes it takes a disaster to bring out the best in people, or just to open their eyes to the kindness and compassion that is already there. In the past few days, newspapers and TV newscasts in New York and New Jersey have been full of stories of local residents helping people in areas that
Picture This
Picture This
By: Thomas Umstead
BET Puts 'Mo'Nique Show' On Hiatus
(Updated) — The summer TCA tour kicked off earlier this morning with panels from The Weather Channel and ESPN, but it’s a network that’s not scheduled to present during the tour that has a few writers buzzing. BET has put its two-year old late night series The Mo’Nique
REYNOLDS RAP
REYNOLDS RAP
By: Mike Reynolds
Will VCU Be In Your View?
The rookie run of the 14-year, $10.8 billion NCAA tournament teaming by Turner Sports and CBS has netted some nice Nielsens. With each game in its own national window — courtesy of Black Rock, TBS, TNT and TruTV — for the first time in the 73-year history of various iterations of
TV Crush
TV Crush
By: Mary McNamara
DVR Alert: BBC America's 'Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'
There’s a lot happening on cable on Friday nights - Syfy’s Caprica and Starz Spartacus, to name just a few standouts. So, set your DVR’s. This Friday, (February 12) at 10p., host Jonathan Ross of BBC America’s Friday Night with Jonathan Ross welcomes
Translation Please
Translation Please
By: Leslie Ellis
How Video Slinging Fits in the Upstream
Last week’s mail contained this query from reader Steve, who asked, “How would slinging video up cable’s upstream path work, given how little bandwidth there is down there?” He was referring to last week’s column about Broadcom putting Sling Media’s
Viewpoint
Viewpoint
By: Mark Robichaux
Disconnected
When the 108-year-old hickory tree came crashing through our family room on Monday night, the house shook as if mighty Thor had swung his hammer down on our roof in Stamford, Conn. We were all awake — my wife and the two kids — and, only seconds before, as the wind roared through the
The Bauminator
The Bauminator
By: Jeff Baumgartner
Staying in the Cable Game
Cable engineers don't ever seem to really "...
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