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As I Was Saying

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As I Was Saying

By: Gary Arlen

Watch 2 College Games Simultaneously Via ESPN Xbox Deal

ESPN is expanding its distribution relationship with Microsoft, starting with a TV app that will let Xbox 360 viewers watch two college football games simultaneously, using the feeds from ESPN3.com. Starting on Aug. 25, Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be able to choose two 720p high-def video

BIT RATE

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BIT RATE

By: Todd Spangler

What Is Google Fiber Trying to Prove?

The Google Fiber project in KC still has the strong smell of a lobbying/PR stunt — rather than an honest-to-god broadband/TV offering that will bring competitive pressure to bear on cable and telco providers. Here’s one of the main things the Google Fiber 1-Gbps experiment shows: That if you have a huge amount of bandwidth, TV is the

Capital Letters

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Capital Letters

By: John Eggerton

Wheeler/Clyburn Ticket?

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowksi has yet to announce his exit date, but the chatter is coalescing around a scenario where Former NCTA President Tom Wheeler is nominated to replace Genachowski and, since the vetting and voting for that pick will likely take a few months, Mignon Clyburn would be named

MCN Guest Blog

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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

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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

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My Turn

By: Kent Gibbons

Disaster Images

Just mind blowing, toggling between BBCA’s “BBC World News America” and CNN’s “The Situation Room.” First, incredibly, on BBCA is a roundup story about rains and flooding in – New Orleans. Eight inches of rain, the blurb noted. TST and I were just

On The Money

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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

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Picture This

By: Thomas Umstead

BET To Stay Aggressive In The Scripted Game

BET’s renewal of The Game and Let’s Stay Together announced Monday is not surprising, given the better than expected ratings performances of the two comedies. What’s exciting for viewers of the African-American targeted network is that BET isn’t resting on its laurels

REYNOLDS RAP

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REYNOLDS RAP

By: Mike Reynolds

Super Bowl XLV Parlay

Take the over on both the 105 and 106.5. As in a Super Bowl record crowd of 105,000 people in and around Cowboys Stadium and 106.5 million average viewers, which would ease past last year’s NFL title tilt as the largest audience in U.S. TV history. The league is projecting that the

TV Crush

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TV Crush

By: Mary McNamara

Well, THAT's Fun (Moody Blues in Visa Ad)

I’m sitting here watching and tweeting American Idol when this cool Visa ad pops up on my television screen in big, bright psychedelic colors. The music is Moody Blues’ “Tuesday Afternoon.” Fun In fact, Visa recently released another inspiring ad called “Let

Translation Please

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Translation Please

By: Leslie Ellis

One! More! Time! IP and Bandwidth

Just under two decades ago, at a National Show breakfast for engineering mucketymucks in L.A., MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, who at the time had just published Being Digital, caused a few dozen forkfuls of scrambled eggs to quiver with indignation. Back then, it was a relatively new

Viewpoint

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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

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The Bauminator

By: Jeff Baumgartner

Cablevision Keeps Netflix Pole Position

Cablevision Systems remained the top-ranked “large...