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Armstrong to Enliven Family-Value VOD Service EnLive

MSO Will Launch Service on Oct. 1
By: Mike Reynolds Sep 26 2012 - 12:52pm
MSO Will Launch Service on Oct. 1

Values-based video-on-demand purveyor EnLive has struck a carriage deal with cable operator Armstrong.
Under the pact, financial terms of which were not disclosed, Armstrong will add EnLive to its on-demand platform on Oct. 1. The service, which offers an array of family-friendly fare across multiple genres, will be available to the MSO’s nearly 240,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and West Virginia for $4.99 monthly. Customers will gain unlimited access to the content.

Comcast's Cohen: No Justification for Exclusivity Ban

Exec Doesn't See Business Model for National Google Fiber Build-out
By: John Eggerton Sep 26 2012 - 11:06am
Exec Doesn't See Business Model for National Google Fiber Build-out

Comcast executive vice president David Cohen  says that in the current, competitive marketplace, there is no remaining justification under statute for the program exclusivity ban to remain in place.
"I don't think the chairman had a choice to circulate the order that he circulated," said Cohen, during an interview for C-SPAN's Communicators series, which airs later in the week.

'Aereo' To Test Copyright Law With Internet-Streaming TV Service

Micro-Antenna Startup Has Raised $25 Million From Investors Including Barry Diller
By: Todd Spangler Feb 14 2012 - 7:23am
Micro-Antenna Startup Has Raised $25 Million From Investors Including Barry Diller

Aereo, a startup whose backers include media mogul Barry Diller, is launching a subscription service in New York City that provides live broadcast TV channels and network-based DVR over the Internet for $12 per month, pitched as an alternative to cable TV -- a proposition that may earn a legal fight from the broadcast industry.

Motorola Mobility Licenses Comcast Reference Design Kit

Software Bumdle to Accelerate Set-Top Box Development Cycle, Deployment of Next-Gen Video Services
By: George Winslow Aug 22 2012 - 6:31am
Software Bumdle to Accelerate Set-Top Box Development Cycle, Deployment of Next-Gen Video Services

Motorola Mobility is licensing Comcast's Reference Design Kit, a development that the MSO is referring to an important step forward in their efforts to speed up the deployment of innovative new services to their subscribers.

GCI Fast-Forwards With TiVo

Alaska Operator to Offer Whole-Home DVR, Multiscreen Video Through Vendor
By: Todd Spangler Aug 21 2012 - 1:15pm
Alaska Operator to Offer Whole-Home DVR, Multiscreen Video Through Vendor

General Communication Inc., a midsize operator that is Alaska's largest telecommunications company, has picked TiVo to exclusively provide GCI's next-generation whole-home TV and multiscreen video solutions, the companies announced Tuesday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. GCI, which had 122,500 basic video subs at the end of the second quarter of 2012, intends to begin initial deployment later in 2012 and offer TiVo across its footprint in early 2013.

N.C. Cable Operator Rolling Out Fiber-To-The-Home Network

Country Cablevision Using Clearfield's PON Cabinets for Deployment
By: Todd Spangler Aug 29 2012 - 11:05am
Country Cablevision Using Clearfield's PON Cabinets for Deployment

Country Cablevision, a small cable operator in North Carolina that received funding under the U.S. government's broadband stimulus program, has begun deploying a fiber-optic broadband network build in the rural mountain counties of Mitchell and Yancey, N.C.
Country Cablevision, which is among the first cable TV operators in the country to embrace FTTH, expects to begin turning up fiber service in early 2013.

Poor Areas Of K.C. May Miss Google Fiber's First Wave

Internet Company Provides Details on Set-Top Rates, Early-Termination Fees
By: Todd Spangler Aug 31 2012 - 4:41pm
Internet Company Provides Details on Set-Top Rates, Early-Termination Fees

Google's selective "fiberhood" rally process for building out 1 Gbps broadband to areas of Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., could leave low-income residents without access to the next-generation service initially.

Google's IPTV Service Pumps VOD With Avail-TVN

Media Services Company Providing On-Demand Content for Kansas City Fiber Launch
By: Todd Spangler Sep 5 2012 - 4:01pm
Media Services Company Providing On-Demand Content for Kansas City Fiber Launch

Media-services provider Avail-TVN will feed thousands of on-demand titles into Kansas City for Google's fiber-to-the-home TV service launch this fall.

Subscribers of Google Fiber TV will have access to "tens of thousands" of VOD titles across various devices, according to the Internet company.

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