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Comcast's David Cohen: U.S. Broadband Is World Class

Says Companies Have Invested $1.2 Trillion in Past Couple of Decades
By: John Eggerton (Broadcasting & Cable) May 23 2013 - 4:23pm
Says Companies Have Invested $1.2 Trillion in Past Couple of Decades

Comcast EVP David Cohen stood up tall for U.S. broadband Thursday (May 23), saying Americans "are getting world-class broadband from competing companies, and it’s getting better every day."

He ascribed to parochial agendas the "running down" of U.S. broadband buildouts by some critics and members of the press who he said use "selective statistics" to back "unsupported hypothesis" that high-speed is not "first rate."

Walden Sees Aereo As Potential Marketplace Disruptor

Says that is not necessarily bad, but understands why Fox would warn about moving content off broadcast model
By: John Eggerton May 23 2013 - 3:34pm
Says that is not necessarily bad, but understands why Fox would warn about moving content off broadcast model

Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) says Aereo could be a major disruptor in the marketplace--as could Dish's Hopper--and suggests he understands why Fox would warn that such disruption could move programming off the broadcast model.

Walden, chair of the House Communications Subcommittee, was being interviewed for C-SPAN's Communicators series.

Heat-Pacers Thriller Nets 8.2 Million Viewers

TNT's Game 1 Coverage Is Top 2013 NBA Postseason Telecast
By: Mike Reynolds May 23 2013 - 2:53pm
TNT's Game 1 Coverage Is Top 2013 NBA Postseason Telecast

TNT’s coverage of the Miami Heat’s one-point, overtime win over the Indiana Pacers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals was the top telecast of the 2013 NBA postseason.

With the game decided on LeBron James’s buzzer-beating, left-handed layup, TNT scored a 5.3 household rating and 8.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen fast nationals data. The May 22 contest was the highest-rated and most-viewed 2013 NBA playoff game to date and the top telecast on TV -- broadcast or cable -- on Wednesday night.

BCI Helps Shawnee Tornado Victims

Cable Operator Sets Up Communications Café
By: Mike Farrell May 23 2013 - 1:52pm
Cable Operator Sets Up Communications Café

Customers of BCI Broadband in Shawnee, Okla., were able to communicate with the outside world within hours after a tornado touched down on the small community on May 19.

While a smaller storm than the one that devastated the nearby town of Moore on May 20 – which caused about 24 deaths – the Shawnee tornado destroyed several sections of the city and resulted in one fatality.

Multiplatform World: Comcast's Strauss Says VOD Poised For More Growth

Exec Points to Gains on Usage, Promotional and Monetization Fronts
By: Mike Reynolds May 23 2013 - 12:08pm
Exec Points to Gains on Usage, Promotional and Monetization Fronts

New York -- Comcast’s video-on-demand programming is poised for growth on several levels.

Matt Strauss, senior vice president of digital and emerging platforms at Comcast Cable, speaking at NewBay Media’s "TV in a Multiplatform World" event here Thursday, said the platform’s viewership, promotional and monetization aspects are accelerating.

Seaport Completes MCV Broadband Sale

NTT Docomo Buys Guam Operator for $130M
By: Mike Farrell May 23 2013 - 11:43am
NTT Docomo Buys Guam Operator for $130M

Seaport Capital said it has completed the sale of MCV Broadband, the largest video, voice and high-speed data service provider in Guam, to Japanese wireless giant NTT Docomo for $130 million.

BlackArrow Jumps in Cable’s Canoe

Licensing Deal Targets National Programmers, Looks to Accelerate Rollout of VOD Dynamic Ad Insertion
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 23 2013 - 7:32am
Licensing Deal Targets National Programmers, Looks to Accelerate Rollout of VOD Dynamic Ad Insertion

Formalizing a working relationship that goes back about two years, Canoe, the MSO-backed advanced advertising firm, will announce today that it has licensed BlackArrow’s advertising campaign management system as part of a strategy to help Canoe’s national cable network partners accelerate their ability to insert ads dynamically into VOD content.

Financial terms of the multi-year deal weren’t disclosed, but the accord centers on BlackArrow Affiliate, a platform for programmers that manages dynamic ad insertion (DAI) in set-top-delivered VOD services.

Comcast's Wi-Fi Network Blows into Chicago

MSO Lights Up More than 1,000 Hotspots As MSO Kicks Off Free Wi-Fi Promo
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 23 2013 - 6:55am
MSO Lights Up More than 1,000 Hotspots As MSO Kicks Off Free Wi-Fi Promo

Comcast confirmed it has deployed more than 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in the Chicago area and is offering free access to them to non-customers for a portion of the summer.

Shazam Auto-Tags the iPad

Revamped Audio-Recognition App for Apple Devices Can Automatically Trigger Interactive TV Apps and Ads
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 23 2013 - 6:32am
Revamped Audio-Recognition App for Apple Devices Can Automatically Trigger Interactive TV Apps and Ads

Shazam is breaking out a revamped interactive app for iPads that introduces  an important, new “auto-tagging” element that can recognize music and audio from TV shows and TV ads playing in the background  without requiring any manual intervention by the user.

Google Fiber Heading to Raytown

Another Missouri City Gives Google Fiber the Green Light
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 22 2013 - 11:31pm
Another Missouri City Gives Google Fiber the Green Light

Analysts are skeptical that Google will fund a massive deployment of its 1 Gig fiber network, but Google Fiber’s tentacles continue to spread into the Kansas City region.

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