Telco TV Industry News
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AT&T U-verse to Launch Univision's Three New Cable ChannelsMike Reynolds, May 11, 2012Univision Communications and AT&T U-verse have reached a multiyear, multiplatform deal that includes carriage of the U.S. Spanish-language media leader's three new cable networks, as well as authenticated access across an array of vehicles. More
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Time Warner Cable Sports to Tip Off Lakers-Centric RSNs on Oct. 1Mike Reynolds, May 10, 2012
It's official now: Time Warner Cable will tip off its two regional sports networks, centering on the Los Angeles Lakers, on Oct. 1.
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AT&T Unchains Home-Security PlansBy Todd Spangler, May 7, 2012
AT&T this summer will test out an IP-based home security, monitoring and control service -- dubbed Digital Life -- and plans to eventually offer the "smart home" service to any cable or telco broadband household across the nation.
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Cable TV Subs Fell 5% In 2011: NielsenBy Todd Spangler, May 4, 2012U.S. cable operators lost about 2.9 million video subscribers in 2011, shrinking the overall pay-TV market by 1.5% even as telcos packed on 1.1 million and satellite TV providers were roughly flat at 280,000 net adds, according to Nielsen data. More
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Multiplatform TV: Kessler: HBO Go Rolls to Kindle Fire with New Season Of 'True Blood'Mike Reynolds, May 3, 2012HBO Go, the premium network's authenticated streaming service, will go to Amazon's Kindle Fire with the start of the upcoming season of True Blood. More
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Why ‘TV Everywhere’
Still Isn't EverywhereMCN Staff, April 30, 2012
How fast should conventional TV move to Internet and mobile platforms, and on what terms?
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U-verse Bucks Up
AT&T’s Flagging DSL and Voice
By Todd Spangler, April 30, 2012It’s still a tale of two telcos for AT&T’s wireline business. More
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Turner: The First-Mover Advantage? By Todd Spangler, April 30, 2012No ad-supported network programmer has pushed as hard on TV Everywhere as Turner Broadcasting System. With an evangelical zeal, the company has struck authentication deals with each of the major pay TV distributors, with the notable exception of Time Warner Cable. Coleman Breland, chief operating officer of Turner Network Sales, spoke last week with Multichannel News technology editor Todd Spangler. More
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White House Threatens To Veto CISPAJohn Eggerton, April 25, 2012The Obama Administration Wedesday came out against H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is strongly backed by cable operators and phone companies More
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Harmonic Satellite And Telco Sales Plunge In Q1By Todd Spangler, April 24, 2012Video-equipment vendor Harmonic posted a 4% dip in total revenue for the first quarter of 2012, with a 26% decline in sales in its satellite and telco segment unable to offset relatively strong performance in its cable business. More
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Groups Ask FCC To Stop Clock On Verizon/Cable Spectrum DealJohn Eggerton, April 24, 2012Sprint/Nextel, DirecTV and public advocacy groups critical of the proposed sale of cable spectrum to Verizon Wireless have joined with the Communications Workers of America to ask the FCC to stop the clock on its merger review, citing software problems with opening some of the documents filed by Verizon and cable ops. More
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AT&T Hikes U-verse TV To 4 Million Subs As DSL Woes PersistBy Todd Spangler, April 24, 2012
AT&T tallied 3.99 million U-verse TV subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2012 -- after netting a healthy 200,000 in the period -- and reeled in 718,000 U-verse Internet customers, while its legacy digital subscriber line business and total voice connections continued to lose ground.
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Verizon Dials DSL Down, Prices FiOS UpBy Todd Spangler, April 23, 2012Verizon Communications, aiming to improve the profital subscriber line over copper in areas where FiOS is available. More
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Verizon Stops Selling DSL In Fiber Markets, Eyes More FiOS Price HikesBy Todd Spangler, April 19, 2012Verizon Communications, aiming to improve the profitability of its wireline unit, will no longer sell DSL over copper in areas where FiOS is available and is planning to implement additional price hikes for its FiOS bundles over the next two quarters, according to CFO Fran Shammo. More
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Verizon FiOS Gains In Q1 Offset Chronic DSL, Phone DeclinesBy Todd Spangler, April 19, 2012
Verizon Communications has essentially completed its FiOS network buildout but the telco keeps boosting penetration within its existing footprint, adding 180,000 TV and 193,000 FiOS Internet subscribers in the first quarter of 2012 -- more than offsetting declines in DSL and legacy landlines in the consumer wireline business.
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NBCU to Live Stream All Sports from London Olympics as Part of 'TV Everywhere' PlayMike Reynolds, April 18, 2012NBCUniversal is upping the streaming ante for coverage of the London Olympics. More
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What’s a Multichannel Video Provider?By John Eggerton, April 16, 2012Nearly two weeks since the Federal Communications Commission sought comment on how it should define a “multichannel video-programming distributor” (MVPD), a “channel” and even “video programming” in an age of Internet delivery, it has yet to receive any comments. More
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Entropic Aims At Broadcom After Clinching Trident Set-Top DealBy Todd Spangler, April 13, 2012Silicon supplier Entropic Communications is more than doubling its headcount to about 700 employees, after its $65 million acquisition of Trident Microsystems' set-top box system-on-a-chip business officially closed Thursday -- and with the combined offering, the company expects to mount a bigger challenge to Broadcom in the market. More
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Verizon Deploys VOD Redesign Amid Pending ActiveVideo CaseBy Todd Spangler, April 11, 2012Verizon Communications has been systematically upgrading its video-on-demand system for FiOS TV, with the help of its VOD vendors Cisco Systems and Ericsson, with a workaround designed to not infringe patents asserted in a lawsuit by ActiveVideo Networks. More
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Fiber-Connected Subs Grew 13% In North America In Past Year: Trade GroupBy Todd Spangler, April 9, 2012The number of North American households connected to all-fiber networks has climbed 13% since April 2011, to 8 million subscribers, according to a report from the Fiber-to-the-Home Council Americas, with Verizon's FiOS accounting for more than 60% of the total FTTH subs in the region. More
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