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Yahoo Bids for Hulu: Report

Joins List of Several Bidders for Site
By: George Winslow (Broadcasting & Cable) May 24 2013 - 4:14pm
Joins List of Several Bidders for Site
 

Following its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo has put in a "formal proposal to buy Hulu," according to Reuters, which cited two anonymous sources.

MSOs Eye More Wi-Fi

Comcast Launches in Atlanta; Shaw Sets Edmonton Expansion
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 24 2013 - 4:09pm
Comcast Launches in Atlanta; Shaw Sets Edmonton Expansion

The Wi-Fi train keeps chugging along at Comcast and Canadian cable MSO Shaw Communications.

Following a recent deployment in Chicago, Comcast has begun to deploy a Wi-Fi network in Atlanta that will provide free access to Comcast cable modem subscribers and consumers who get broadband from “CableWiFi” roaming partners Cablevision Systems, Bright House Networks, Cox Communications and  Time Warner Cable.

Sepulveda Nominated Ambassador

Former top Kerry Senate aide is now top State ITU treaty negotiator
By: John Eggerton May 24 2013 - 4:03pm
Former top Kerry Senate aide is now top State ITU treaty negotiator

Former top Senate Communications Subcommittee advisor Danny Sepulveda has been nominated by President Obama to the rank of ambassador.

Sepulveda has, since April, been Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Communications and Information Policy at the State Department, where his former boss, former Communications Subcommittee Chairman Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), is now Secretary of State.

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Sling Media, Belkin Settle Time-Shifting Spat

International Trade Commission Asked to Stamp Proposed Settlement Between Rivals
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 24 2013 - 10:40am
International Trade Commission Asked to Stamp Proposed Settlement Between Rivals

Sling Media and Belkin have reportedly settled a suit in which the Slingbox maker alleged that Belkin's @TV Plus product infringed on a handful of Sling patents tied to video place-shifting.

Dish Joins With NTELOS on Fixed Wireless Offering

Broadband Service Would Stretch From Pennsylvania to Kentucky
By: Mike Farrell May 24 2013 - 9:44am
Broadband Service Would Stretch From Pennsylvania to Kentucky

Dish Network said Friday that it will team with fixed wireless broadband service provider nTELOS to develop a high-speed data service spanning seven states from Pennsylvania from Kentucky.

Verizon Kicks Off Free ‘On Demand Marathon’

Memorial Day Weekend Binge-Fest is FiOS TV’s ‘Biggest Free Event Ever,” Verizon Exec Says
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 24 2013 - 9:25am
Memorial Day Weekend Binge-Fest is FiOS TV’s ‘Biggest Free Event Ever,” Verizon Exec Says

Looking to boost overall VOD usage and perhaps nudge customers to buy more paid, transactional on-demand fare later on, Verizon FiOS TV today kicks off an On Demand Marathon that provides free access to more than 1,700 movies and north of 50 full season of TV series from networks such as NBC, HGTV, Food Network, HBO, Starz and EPIX. 

Multiplatform World: TV Everywhere Complexities Remain Daunting

Operators and Programmers Must Strive to Simplify and Unify their Backoffice and Workflow Systems
By: Jeff Baumgartner May 24 2013 - 8:16am
Operators and Programmers Must Strive to Simplify and Unify their Backoffice and Workflow Systems

New York – Pay TV operators continue to expand their TV Everywhere offerings, but the underlying systems are becoming increasingly complex as content is targeted to more devices and required to handle a growing variety of video and metadata formats.

It’s a daunting task, but one that needs to be handled, if pay TV operators are to keep pace with the changes that their viewers are demanding.

Broadcasters Seek Injunction Against Aereokiller in D.C. Court

Try to expand nine-state area where Aereo-like TV station streaming service is currently enjoined from operating
By: John Eggerton May 23 2013 - 11:45pm
Try to expand nine-state area where Aereo-like TV station streaming service is currently enjoined from operating

Fox, ABC, NBC and Allbritton Communications have filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against various FilmOn Web sites offering the Aereokiller TV station streaming and recording service  (Allbritton owns ABC affiliate WJLA-TV Washington).

They want a jury trial and, in the meantime, a temporary injunction. The move is meant to expand the area where Aerokiller has already been blocked by a California district court.

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Multiplatform World: Wakshlag Says Industry Creating 'Frankenmetrics' to Measure Usage

Turner Research Chief Lives By Three Rules: How Many, How Often, How Long
By: Mike Farrell May 23 2013 - 6:26pm
Turner Research Chief Lives By Three Rules: How Many, How Often, How Long

New York – Turner Broadcasting System chief research officer Jack Wakshlag said the TV industry is creating a series of complicated, useless “Frankenmetrics” to measure viewer habits for linear television, online video and VOD when three simple questions would give advertisers and content providers the answers they want.

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."

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