2008 CABLE SHOW: ‘Battle of Bands’ Raises $300,000 For New Orleans By Kent Gibbons - 05/21/2008
The Cable Show convention ended Tuesday night with a “Battle of the Bands” fundraiser that raised about $300,000 for charitable efforts to assist in the recovery of New Orleans, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association said. More
2008 CABLE SHOW: Operators Must Balance Content, Services To Serve Diverse Audience: Panel By Kent Gibbons - 05/20/2008
NEW ORLEANS—Cable operators realize they must have the right programming mix and marketing messages to reach Spanish-speaking and other multicultural communities—but face the continual challenge of balancing those opportunities with keeping pricing competitive and conserving bandwidth for other revenue targets. More
2008 CABLE SHOW: Esser: Cox ‘On the Verge’ Of Advanced Ads By Todd Spangler - 05/20/2008
NEW ORLEANS—Cox Communications president Pat Esser said the industry is poised to generate “material” revenue from interactive and addressable advertising formats in the next two years, and said his company is “on the verge” of bringing out such capabilities. More
2008 CABLE SHOW: Perils Of Pricing Political Ads By Linda Haugsted - 05/20/2008
NEW ORLEANS—Cable systems are overestimating the value of their ability to demographically segment ads, charging double or triple what the spots are worth, according to political strategist Brad Perseke. More
2008 CABLE SHOW: Business Phone Service Signals Big Opportunity For Cable By Mike Farrell - 05/20/2008
NEW ORLEANS—Business telephone services represent a huge opportunity for cable companies, but operators were cautioned that the key to their success or failure will likely be customer service, according to a Tuesday panel discussion at the 2008 Cable Show. More
2008 CABLE SHOW: Thomson Cooks Digital-To-Analog Cable Adapter By Todd Spangler - 05/20/2008
NEW ORLEANS—Thomson is the latest vendor to climb into the digital-to-analog cable converter ring, with a simple box the company said will cost less than $40 to replicate an existing analog lineup. More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News September 6, 2008 Bandwidth Cap-tivity
Is next-generation cable broadband getting all dressed up with nowhere to go?
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Capital Ideas Ted Hearn, , September 5, 2008 Hurricane Bonus
Another hurricane has crashed into New Orleans just as the city seemed to be completi... More
Starz' Web Play
Starz Entertainment president and COO Bill Myers discusses next month’s shut down of the company's stand-alone, web-based movie download service Vongo as well as its push to get operators to distribute a similar online service dubbed Starz Play.
USA Network's Sandy 'Burn Notice' USA Network transplanted ‘Burn Notice’s’ Miami beach setting to Times Square for a promotional event in support of the second-season premiere of the original series.
Comcast's New Video Wall The 83-by-25-foot, 10-million-pixel high-definition video wall located in the lobby of Comcast's new corporate headquarters has become quite a tourist attraction in downtown Philadelphia.
National Educational Computing Conference Operators, programmers, Cable in the Classroom and CTAM shared their resources with more than 18,000 school leaders, educational technology purchasers and decision-makers this week at the National Educational Computing Conference in San Antonio.
