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Sony Electronics has just provided another 2 million tiny reasons for people to cut their cable TV service. The company announced a deal today to bring Slacker Personal Radio — which hosts a
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart warehouse outlet chain, put out a press release today promoting a 10-week special membership offer. The announcement, keying off a "hard times" theme of saving
Who will be the most aggressive marketers taking advantage of cable’s set-top-addressable and interactive advertising capabilities out of the gate? Probably the MSOs themselves. That
Dick Green is putting in another 15 months as CEO of CableLabs, then he’ll move on to do something else — he told me yesterday that he hopes to remain involved in cable. (See CableLabs
Who needs the great outdoors? At least one TV manufacturer wants to encourage more Americans to stay home — sitting glued to their shiny new high-def TVs — instead of burning up
NEW YORK — Blink and you woulda missed it. At 7:35 a.m. Eastern, about 100 people wearing black and red polo shirts — a couple of them with hardhats — strolled calmly
One of the supposed killer advantages of IPTV over traditional cable — that an IP architecture provides an unlimited smorgasbord of  video choices, versus packed-to-gills RF networks
AT&T yesterday showed off several IPTV concept applications at a press briefing in downtown Manhattan. At first, it seemed like nothing especially new. The telco has trotted out many of
Cable could score millions of new subscribers as a result of the looming broadcasters’ all-digital switchover come February 2009 (see "It’s Now For ‘Nevers,’" March 31).
About a month into the 2008 baseball season, Verizon still hasn’t landed a deal with Major League Baseball to offer the Extra Innings out-of-market subscription package to FiOS customers. In