• DirecTV Grows Latin America Business

  by K.C. Neel, August 24, 2009
  In 2004, DirecTV Latin America was in bankruptcy. Today, following a series of mergers and reorganization, the company is among DirecTV Group's shining stars.  More

• Big Changes In Small Markets

  by K.C. Neel, May 25, 2009
  Bill Bresnan has a knack for taking control of cable properties that no one seems to want and turning them into assets just about everyone would love to have. He did it when he helped secure the cable franchise in Rochester, Minn., in 1958. He did it in 1984, when his Bresnan Communications bought five underutilized systems in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula region.  More

• Cable's 'People Person'

  by K.C. Neel, May 25, 2009
  For the last 50 years, Bill Bresnan has built cable systems from scratch, run small and large cable companies — including the country's largest MSO at the time — and has been at the forefront of technological developments spurring, among other things, the advancement of satellite transmission and fiber optics.  More

• Men Of Faith Are An Underserved Demo

  by Tim Kridel, April 6, 2009
  Over the past few years, faith-based networks have increasingly targeted certain demographics, including women, Hispanics and youth. But that doesn't mean networks believe men are a well-served demographic. Just the opposite.  More

• Digital Ministries

  by Tim Kridel, April 5, 2009
  Houses of worship are logging on, as more religious programmers turn to the Internet to deliver their message and cut costs. “A lot of cable providers would require a church to pay a fee,” said Melissa Wharton, CEO of The Church Online, which offers a turnkey package of hardware, software and bandwidth so ministries can quickly begin streaming video online.  More

• Under One Roof

  by Todd Spangler, January 10, 2009
  Good things come to those who wait and wait, and wait. In a development that promises greater flexibility and simplicity for cable operators deploying switched digital video and other applications, the cable industry has merged two disparate video-services architectures invented by Comcast and Time Warner Cable.  More

• Where Tech, Content Meet

  by Stuart Miller, January 3, 2009
  On the opening night of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the curtain will also rise on the inaugural ceremony of the Global Media Awards. Presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association, the awards recognize the intersection of entertainment and technology in the broadband universe.  More

• Global Media Awards

  By Multichannel News Staff, January 3, 2009
  The following is a complete list of categories and nominees. OUTSTANDING SHORT FORMAT ENTERTAINMENT 30 Second Bunnies Theatre: Kill Bill Parts 1&2 Starz/Angry Alien Deadliest Catch: The Real Dutch Discovery Digital Media Green Porno Sundance Channel Life in Transition The New York Times Muppets.com Disney Interactive Media Group Sway CBS Interactive/BNET.  More

• What Viewers Really Want

  by Staff, January 3, 2009
  Never before has data on new technologies and analysis of viewer habits been more critical for a television industry trying to divine the future. With financial markets in turmoil and advertising revenue in peril, executives also must contend with increasingly fickle consumers whose evolving patterns of video consumption promise to upend many key business models.  More

• Troubled Waters Ahead

  by George Winslow, January 3, 2009
  For years, the biggest question facing television executives as they headed into the Consumer Electronics Show was the impact of digital media on their traditional business. Now they face a much more immediate and arguably bigger threat to their core business an economic meltdown that has already prompted significant layoffs at a number of major media and telecommunications companies.  More

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