Toledo, Augusta Get Dish Local Channels
The Toledo, Ohio, and Augusta, Ga., areas Thursday became the latest to receive local channels via satellite from EchoStar Communications Cor
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HDNet to Air ‘MuchMusic Video Awards’
Canada’s “15th Annual MuchMusic Video Awards” are coming south on HDNet.
HDNet will air the exclusive U.S. telec
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WOW Strikes Up BigBand ‘BMR’
WideOpenWest LLC has deployed BigBand Networks Inc.’s “BMR (Broadband Multimedia-Service Router).”
WOW is using
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Rogers Throws Hat in SVOD Ring
Canadian MSO Rogers Cable Inc. is making its initial foray into subscription video-on-demand.
The operator said Thursd
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Pioneer Renews Its ‘Passport’
Pioneer Digital Technologies Inc. debuted software advancements for its “Passport” interactive navigation suite at the Society of Cable T
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Eight More Local Markets for DirecTV
DirecTV Inc. launched local-channel service in eight more markets Thursday.
The direct-broadcast satellite giant now b
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RealNetworks, Camiant Team Up on Cable Streaming
Camiant Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. will combine the former’s “QBUS Policy Server” with the latter’s “Helix Universal Server,” the
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iO Launches On-Screen Broadband Activation
Cablevision Systems Corp. iO: Interactive Optimum digital-cable subscribers can now order the MSO’s Optimum Online high-speed-data service
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HDTV: They’re Not in It for the Money
New York -- Several top MSO, programming and ad-agency officials said Wednesday that they view HDTV as a cost of doing business, and not a p
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Prosecutor: Adelphia Was Defendants’ ‘ATM’
Prosecutor Christopher Clark said during closing arguments at the Adelphia Communications Corp. fraud trial Wednesday that the four defendant
