Images from The Cable Show 2013, held June 10-12 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. (Photos by John Staley)
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As I Was Saying
As I Was Saying
By: Gary Arlen
Video Regulation “Certainty,” IP Transition, Net Neutrality Top Lobbyists’ FCC Wish List
Beyond the wishful thinking title “If I Were the FCC Chairman…,” Tuesday’s Free State Foundation seminar provided a prescient checklist of what major telecom organizations are expecting Tom Wheeler, the nominee for that job, to put atop his To Do list.
BIT RATE
BIT RATE
By: Todd Spangler
Toy Robot Kit? No, It's Dish's New 'Ollo' Mobile Brand
Dish Network may use “Ollo” as the name for forthcoming wireless voice, video and data services and devices, according to filings with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The satellite company’s Nov. 9 trademark filing on the name was spotted by FierceCable’s Steve Donohue. Dish has been amassing wireless spectrum,
Capital Letters
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
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
Mixed Signals
By: Jimmy Schaeffler
Apple TV: The Paradigm of Enigmas?
Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple, in the form of its AppleTV product, remains the Paradigm of Enigmas. That is to say, sadly, what so many people are still thinking today, years after Apple was first expected to revolutionize the TV space, and that is: “While so many other Apple
On The Money
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
Picture This
Picture This
By: Thomas Umstead
BET Awards Show Doesn’t Strike High Ratings Chord
BET hit numerous high notes last night during its annual BET Awards presentation. Too bad one of them wasn’t from a viewership standpoint. The show’s 5.8 million viewers – while among the largest audiences for a non-sports cable show this year — was the
REYNOLDS RAP
REYNOLDS RAP
By: Mike Reynolds
Who Dat Playing At Super Bowl XLIV?
Mssrs. Manning and Brees won’t be the only ones performing on the Big Game stage on Super Sunday. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the surviving member of The Who, my favorite British band, will rock the Super Bowl XLIV halftime show on CBS. Townshend, in an interview with Billboard,
TV Crush
TV Crush
By: Mary McNamara
Robo Calls, The GOP Sith Lord Wing, plus Real GOP Hero: U.S. Marine & Montana Lt. Gov. John Bohlinger.
It’s been a really crazy week. This is a bit of a round-up. Some of it’s borrowed from my own Twitter activity. I’m on Twitter a lot these days. I often live tweet news or the debates. @marymcnamara if you want to follow me. My tweets are kind of
Translation Please
Translation Please
By: Leslie Ellis
What Your Cable Tech Friends Want Under the Tree
Nothing like a few years of bankruptcy drought to color the imaginations of the resource-challenged! In this season’s techie-wish roundup, Charter Engineering takes the candycane. Let’s start with Doug Ike, VP of advanced video and applications for the MSO, who wants “a
Viewpoint
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
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