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
Cable Show 2012: Cisco Flash Mob Features Big Green Men
Boston — It looked like Cisco Systems fellow John Chapman was opening up the 2012 Cable Show’s Imagine Park exhibit on Monday to talk about the vendor’s Videoscape platform (see Cisco Pushes Videoscape Into ‘Cloud’ Formation). But (thankfully?) he was quickly interrupted by a blaring techno mix and a dude dancing
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
My Turn
My Turn
By: Kent Gibbons
SVOD Dollars and Sense
In what direction is video-on-demand headed? Following the money. Look at Cablevision. Last month, it implemented a video bandwidth-management technique called digital-video switching, the biggest such deployment on a single cable system. What is the big New York City-area cable provider doing
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
Pacquiao's PPV Future Unclear After KO Win
Manny Pacquiao further established his reputation as the best pound for pound boxer in the world with his 12-round destruction of Antonio Margarito Saturday night. Sometime around the end of the week we should know whether Pacquiao remains one of the biggest pay-per-view draws in the sport. HBO
REYNOLDS RAP
REYNOLDS RAP
By: Mike Reynolds
At The Root Of A Name Change
It’s not quite Versus, but DirecTV Sports has selected a new name for its three regional sports network, Root Sports. Just as the moniker for Comcast’s national sports service trades on the competitive nature of man vs. man, team vs. team, man vs. animal (think bull riding), DirecTV
TV Crush
TV Crush
By: Mary McNamara
Oh, Snap! Craig Ferguson Mocks Ben Silverman
Oh, snap! Craig Ferguson, host of CBS Network’s Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, mocks NBC Entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman. (Thanks to Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan for her tweety alert to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily blog.)
Translation Please
Translation Please
By: Leslie Ellis
Next in Interactivity: Audio Watermarking
Last week, we looked at the ways operators are considering to extend the work that is EBIF - the embedding of a clickable thing into an MPEG video stream - into the technology tsunami that is IP. (Acronym soup descrambler: EBIF stands for Enhanced Binary Interchange Format; IP stands for Internet
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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