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Armstrong Offering Free VOD of New Anti-Obama Documentary

Availability of '2016: Obama's America' Sparks Questions, Given Execs' GOP Contributions
By: Gary Arlen Oct 24 2012 - 3:40pm
Availability of '2016: Obama's America' Sparks Questions, Given Execs' GOP Contributions

Armstrong Cable Services is showing the controversial new documentary “2016: Obama’s America” as a free video-on-demand selection. Given Armstrong’s extensive base in Ohio and Pennsylvania, two swing states in the upcoming election, the MSO’s free offer is triggering controversy, especially since company executives are financial backers of Republican causes and the Mitt Romney campaign.

Comcast Adds The CW to Xfinity On Demand

Deal Marks Net's Initial Primetime Presentation on MSO VOD platform
By: George Winslow (Broadcasting & Cable) Oct 24 2012 - 2:25pm
Deal Marks Net's Initial Primetime Presentation on MSO VOD platform

Comcast and The CW Network have inked an agreement that will for the first time make the broadcast network's primetime shows available on the VOD platform of an MSO. The shows will make their first appearance on the Comcast Xfinity On Demand platform on Thursday, Oct. 25.

In Demand to Tip NBA League Pass Freeview

Free Preview for Out-of-Market Package Extends from Oct. 30 through Nov. 6
By: Mike Reynolds Oct 23 2012 - 4:15pm
Free Preview for Out-of-Market Package Extends from Oct. 30 through Nov. 6

With an assist from In Demand, the National Basketball Association is tipping off its out-of-market package next week with an eight-day free preview on digital cable.
Package distributor In Demand is working with cable systems around the country on the free preview of NBA League Pass from Oct. 30 through Nov. 6. In addition to the television package, which presents up to 40 live out of market game across 10 channels weekly, subscribers are not only given access to all the games on NBA.com, but once again mobile device authentication is included in the package price.

Cable-Tec Expo: TWC, Bright House Back Entertainment ID Registry

CableLabs’ Dulchinos Will Serve as Executive Director of EIDR
By: Todd Spangler Oct 19 2012 - 1:09pm
CableLabs’ Dulchinos Will Serve as Executive Director of EIDR

Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have joined the Entertainment Identifier Registry coalition -- which is promoting a system of unique global IDs for movies and television shows for TV Everywhere, targeted ads and other applications -- while CableLabs announced that senior executive Don Dulchinos will be “loaned” to EIDR to serve as its executive director.

CTAM Summit: UFCs White: Fighting the Good Fight for PPV

MMA Leader Continues International Expansion
By: Kent Gibbons Oct 15 2012 - 3:10pm
MMA Leader Continues International Expansion

Though he’s now an international programmer whose conquests include 80 million viewers for events on free TV in Brazil, Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White says he’s basically still a promoter overseeing a pay-per-view operation.
“We are a pay-per-view business,” White said at a Multichannel News co-sponsored breakfast event yesterday at the CTAM Summit. “That’s what we are. We look at ourselves as a pay-per-view company.”

CTAM Summit: VOD Marketing Tactics Are Reaching ‘Nevers’: Execs

Co-Op Efforts With Retailers, Restaurants Are Paying Off
By: Kent Gibbons Oct 15 2012 - 11:59am
Co-Op Efforts With Retailers, Restaurants Are Paying Off

Orlando -- To draw in TV viewers who don’t buy movies on-demand, cooperative marketing efforts by operators and studios are extending into Walgreens, Target and even onto Pizza Hut box tops, with some success, marketing executives said Monday.
“Once you get people over the barrier of trying, they’re in and are satisfied with the product,” Stacy Gray, chief creative officer at In Demand, the cable-owned VOD distributor, said during a breakfast panel at the CTAM Summit here.

Rolling Stones Concert To Air On PPV

In Demand, WWE To Distribute Band's Dec. 15 New Jersey Concert
In Demand, WWE To Distribute Band's Dec. 15 New Jersey Concert

In Demand and WWE will distribute live via pay-per-view the Dec. 15 Rolling Stones music concert, the parties said Tuesday.
 
The concert, which will be held at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.. is the last of four live concerts featuring the legendary rock band as part of its 50th anniversary tour. The
PPV event will retail at a suggested price of $39.99 for the standard-definition feed and $44.95 for the high definition feed, said In Demand.
 

Univision to Launch Online On-Demand Network Oct. 15

UVideos Provides English Subtitles, Social TV Interaction
By: Jon Lafayette (Broadcasting & Cable) Oct 11 2012 - 1:54pm
UVideos Provides English Subtitles, Social TV Interaction

 

Univision Communications on Monday plans to introduce its new bilingual online network UVideos, which will provide on demand programming and a social TV experience on a variety of devices.

The site switches from Spanish to English, depending on the users preference. When English is chosen, headings and meta data appear in English and content appears with subtitles, enabling English speakers to consume novellas and other content from the Univision broadcast network as well as cable channels Galavision and Telefutura.

Telemundo Debuts Ad Platform Geo-Targeting Hispanics

Telemundo+ Delivers Customized Messages Across Language Levels, Media Vehicles
By: Mike Reynolds Oct 2 2012 - 8:47am
Telemundo+ Delivers Customized Messages Across Language Levels, Media Vehicles

Telemundo Media and Comcast Spotlight are teaming on a new advertising platform that enables marketers to geo-target Hispanic households across multiple screens with customized messages on general-market cable services.
Telemundo+, a product of Hispanics at NBCU, has signed several clients upon the program's launch, including Toyota. Hispanics at NBCU offers advertisers an opportunity to reach Hispanics across the spectrum of English, Spanish and bilingual homes and acculturation using marketing and media executions on various NBCU platforms.

Troubled LodgeNet Offers Double to New CEO

By: Mike Farrell Oct 1 2012 - 7:25am

LodgeNet really wanted to land Rich Battista as its CEO — so much so that its incentive plan could leave him as one of its largest individual shareholders.

Battista, a former Fox National Cable Networks executive and the architect of Gemstar-TV Guide’s $2.8 billion sale to Macrovision [now Rovi] in 2008, signed on as CEO earlier in September.

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