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September 16, 2008

In this Issue
Microsoft Targets Advanced TV Ads	Cable Lags Telco In Workforce Diversity Efforts: NAMIC Study

TOP STORY

• Microsoft Targets Advanced TV Ads
  Microsoft is giving its first glimpse of an integrated advanced advertising platform for Internet Protocol TV providers, which the company said will be ready for AT&T and other telco customers to roll out in 2009. more » » » 

RESEARCH

• Cable Lags Telco In Workforce Diversity Efforts: NAMIC Study
  The cable industry has made gains in minority employment over the past two years, but some of its numbers fall well short of its telco competitors, according to a new National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications survey. more » » » 

BRIEFS

• Appellate Court Gives Local Govs Final Say on Telco Permits
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reversed itself, raising the level of control local governments have to approve or deny local telecommunications permits or franchises. more » » » 
• FiOS TV Hits Washington State With 98 HD Channels
  Verizon Communications has flipped on FiOS TV in the Evergreen State, where it’s bringing a lineup of 98 high-definition channels to compete with the area’s incumbent cable operator, Comcast. more » » » 
• AT&T Files Program Compliant Against Cox
  Washington—AT&T on Thursday filed a complaint at the Federal Communications Commission to obtain access to a San Diego sports channel wholly owned by local cable incumbent Cox Communications. more » » » 
• TI Dips DOCSIS 3.0 Into IPTV Waters
  Texas Instruments is debuting an eight-downstream-channel DOCSIS 3.0 solution, which the silicon vendor said could allow cable operators to deliver IP-based video services. more » » » 
• Envivio Raises $25 Million In Funding
  Envivio, a provider of IP video encoding solutions, announced it has closed $25 million in venture-capital funding. more » » » 

Ericsson selected SecureMedia's Encryptonite ONE System as a preferred content-protection solution for its IPTV technology offerings.

IBM and Widevine Technologies announced they are helping Lithuania's Skynet provide premium TV content to all 25,000 subscribers.

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting is using Tandberg Television MPEG-4 AVC compression and IP multiplexing solutions to deliver IPTV services in Scandinavia.

Verizon added Shalom TV, a provider of Jewish programming, to its video-on-demand library.

Poland's Silesian Telecommunication Group (SGT) has selected the Appear TV SC2000 headend solution to deliver new HD services to subscribers.

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