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As I Was Saying
As I Was Saying
By: Gary Arlen
Miramax-Facebook Deal Escalates OTT Stakes with Hulu in the Wings
As if the Over-The-Top video landscape weren’t already complicated enough, recent deals and the expected sale of Hulu promise to create an even more complex battlefield for the eyes and dollars of video consumers. “Miramax eXperience” debuted yesterday on Facebook, streaming
BIT RATE
BIT RATE
By: Todd Spangler
Apple Tries to Enter a Market It's Taken TiVo 10-Plus Years to Crack
Apple, after shunning cable operators for years and trying to cobble together its own subscription TV service, is now rumored to be wooing MSOs with some kind of snazzy set-top (see Apple In Talks With TWC, Other MSOs On Cable Set-Top: Report). What are Apple’s chances of success? It’s instructive to look at TiVo’s track record:
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
Intel TV (Part 2): Coming To A (lot of) Video Screen(s) Near You?
This week’s “Mixed Signals” follows-up on last week’s column, which was an introduction to Intel’s new venture into the world of video distribution, dubbed Intel TV (and all that that may lead to, perhaps including, for example, one day, the new 16-part miniseries by
My Turn
My Turn
By: Kent Gibbons
Poking Sticks or Waving Carrots
There are lots of ways programmers attempt to get carriage on cable companies. Often they don’t succeed, a major frustration to a company with a business plan built on reaching millions of TV homes. These days, a tactic more networks are trying is to go on the attack against potential
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
Heat Burn Bulls Too Quickly For Cable
Other than Chicago Bulls fans, probably the only people as disheartened over the Miami Heat’s five-game NBA Eastern Conference finals conquest of the Bulls last night are TNT executives. It’s not that executives at the “drama” network were die-hard Bulls fans or Heat
REYNOLDS RAP
REYNOLDS RAP
By: Mike Reynolds
'Melo Moments
After exhaustive coverage of myriad trade rumors and ultimately its actual denouement, Carmelo Anthony, $65 million richer, will take the stage as a New York Knick tonight at MSG. Stubhub, and other ticket brokers, not to mention scalpers outside the “world’s most famous arena
TV Crush
TV Crush
By: Mary McNamara
Caveat Spectator! "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" Goes for The Hard "R"
If you like soft porn and and/or splatter films - bare breasts of all types, shots of decapitated heads and dismembered forearms and legs (in slomo, with fountains of spurting blood) - then Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Starz latest foray into scripted drama, is the show for you. Yeah, the series will
Translation Please
Translation Please
By: Leslie Ellis
Your SCTE Cable-Tec Expo Jargon Descrambler, 2011
The industry’s technical ranks descend upon Atlanta today, and by the looks of the sessions, workshops and meeting requests, this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo is going to be another jargon doozy. Starting with other current events: If you happened to catch last Wednesday’s test
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
The Bauminator
The Bauminator
By: Jeff Baumgartner
Cablevision Keeps Netflix Pole Position
Cablevision Systems remained the top-ranked “large...
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