June 17, 2008

Comcast, Big Ten Near Deal

Comcast and the Big Ten Network are expected to announce a carriage deal, and more news.

By Steve Goldstein

News Briefing for Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Comcast may be inching closer to a deal to carry the Big Ten Network. [Philadelphia Inquirer | WCCO.com]

Arris will present at SCTE Cable-Tech Expo in Philadelphia next week a “Fair Bandwidth Management” tool that may have been designed with Comcast’s protocol agnostic bandwidth capacity management system in mind, Cable Digital News reports. [Cable Digital News]

Disney is grooming its next teen star, and it wants the media to know about it. [Wall Street Journal]

NBCU's Oxygen gets more into the NBCU fold today, re-launching its Web site and offering a new on-camera look, the NY Times reports. [NYT]

AT&T launched U-verse Voice in parts of Cleveland, Akron and other northeastern Ohio communities.

WiFi’s electromagnetic radio frequency emissions do not cause allergic reactions, the city council in Santa Fe, N.M., has determined. [Ars Technica]

Movie special effects pioneer Stan Winston passed away, the New York Times writes. Winston led the effects work on Jurassic Park, Aliens, The Terminator and Terminator 2. [New York Times]

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