Cable Show 2011, June 14 – 16 - Chicago

• NCTA To Reprise 'Park' Venue At 2012 Cable Show

  By Todd Spangler, January 18, 2012
  The National Cable & Telecommunications Association will bring back "The Park" for this year's Cable Show in Boston, redubbing it "Imagine Park," as a venue to showcase new products and services.  More

• Fresh Ideas For The Clicker

  By Todd Spangler, June 27, 2011
  Even as operators rush to turn iPads into remotes, the humble old remote control is seeing fl ickers of innovation.  More

• 5 Technology Innovations Changing Cable TV

  By Todd Spangler, June 27, 2011
  When it comes to technical innovation, cable has had a reputation — not altogether unwarranted — of being slow off the mark. But the industry appears to be finally breaking free from the chains that have tied it down.  More

• Doug Herzog, Kevin Leddy Guest On C-SPAN's The Communicators

  by MCN Staff, June 24, 2011
  Doug Herzog of MTV Networks and Kevin Leddy of Time Warner Cable will be featured on the upcoming episode of C-SPAN's The Communicators.  More

• Cable Center Names Jerry Kent Chairman

  MCN Staff, June 21, 2011
  The Cable Center's board of directors elected Suddenlink Communications chairman and CEO Jerry Kent as its new chairman, taking over for Insight Communications CEO Michael Willner.  More

• Comcast’s Roberts Wields ‘Xcalibur TV’

  By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2011
  Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts unveiled at the Cable Show last week the operator’s Webconnected and personalized “Xcalibur” TV guide — which is still in the testing phase — and also rolled a video showing a cable modem downloading videos at a rate of more than 1 Gigabit per second over the MSO’s Chicago coaxial plant.  More

• Analysts: Attention to Innovation, Budgets Gives Cable an Edge

  By Mike Farrell, June 20, 2011
  Chicago — Innovative products like online content authentication and packages that are mindful of customers’ economic pressures will help cable maintain its competitive edge, a panel of industry analysts said here last week.  More

• The Vacation Is Over: Oprah ‘All In’ on OWN

  By Andrea Morabito, June 20, 2011
  Appearing onstage at the Cable Show here last Thursday (June 16), Oprah Winfrey reassured those in attendance that she’s fully committed to her fledging network, OWN, which has had a rocky start since its launch in January.  More

• Cable Programmers: We Must Adapt

  By R. THOMAS UMSTEAD, June 20, 2011
  Chicago — The cable “cord-cutting” phenomenon is overrated, according to several cable executives speaking at last week’s Cable Show, but the industry still has to find ways to deliver and monetize content on alternative platforms to keep younger viewers engaged in cable TV services.  More

• Cablevision’s Bickham: Cable Can Recapture Share From Satellite TV

  By Todd Spangler, June 20, 2011
  There’s no reason the cable industry cannot reclaim the approximately 30% share of the pay TV business it lost to DirecTV and Dish Network, Cablevision Systems president of cable and communications John Bickham said on a panel of MSO operations executives here last Th ursday at the Cable Show.  More

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