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| 10.01.2008 |
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Bullpen: A Trick of the Tail
There has been a lot of discussion about the "long tail," a term first coined by Chris Anderson, and described at length in his book The Long Tail - Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. The concept of the long tail is that there is a...
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| 09.25.2008 |
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DirecTV Expands HD Coverage
DirecTV is now offering local HD programming to customers in the Myrtle Beach-Florence, SC...
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| 09.23.2008 |
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DTV: Not All Sweetness and Light
Now that the Wilmington, NC, digital TV transition test for over-the-air broadcast has been successfully completed, all should be smooth sailing for the full switch in February, right? Perhaps not. It seems things in Hunterdon County, NJ, are not going so...
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| 09.23.2008 |
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An Interview with TV Guide Network's Ryan O'Hara
TV Guide Network pres/CEO Ryan O'Hara talks about new...
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| 09.16.2008 |
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The CableFAX Show: Talking Diversity
Mike and Seth talk about cable...
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| 09.15.2008 |
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Manufacturers Weigh in on DTV Boxes
As the countdown to the digital TV transition continues, experts are pleased with the coupon program for digital-to-analog converter boxes. But what has surprised some is the number of converter box models available for purchase with these coupons. To date...
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| 09.12.2008 |
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Ad Marketers Zero In on African-Americans
Galavision’s combination of classic telenovelas, sports and original programming makes it the top-ranked Spanish-language network among Hispanic audiences. TNT’s sports play, BET and TBS (with top draw Tyler Perry’s House of Payne) continue...
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| 09.11.2008 |
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Wilmington Highlights DTV Progress
With less than 160 days until the nationwide digital TV transition in February, the proverbial switch was flipped in Wilmington, NC, this past Monday at noon. The rhetoric and symbolism were abundant: "First in flight, and now first in digital,"...
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| 09.05.2008 |
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IFC's Jennifer Caserta Takes Charge
CableFAX Daily Executive Editor Michael Grebb sat down with IFC evp/gm Jen Caserta, who recently took...
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| 09.04.2008 |
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Viewers Find DVRs Indispensable
Back in the big-hair days of the 1980s, Americans wanted their MTV. Today, the public is clamoring for a technology that gives them control of when they watch music videos. In other words, recent studies show that nationally, and globally, for that matter...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Reality Check: The On-Demand User Interface Dilemma
Is more video on demand (VOD) than you can imagine - and then some - too much of a good thing? As an industry, cable has put into place an embarrassment of riches through its hard-fought commitment to VOD. A whopping 37 million homes, according to SNL Kagan...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Bullpen: Dumb Pipe vs. Dumb Monitor
Building the perfect TV experience has long evaded the consumer electronics (CE) industry and providers of video services alike. There always seems to be one piece missing. For video service providers - whether cable, satellite, or telco - the missing piece...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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IPTV: Global, But Not Dominant
The stutter-step advancement of Internet protocol TV (IPTV) as a video delivery system to be reckoned with is gaining momentum as the technology proves itself and the business model unfolds, albeit with some lingering technology and business issues still to...
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| 08.28.2008 |
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Comcast Delivers at the DNC
Putting together the 2008 Democratic National Convention (Aug. 25-28) hasn't just been about lining up speakers. It's been about ensuring the rest of America outside of Denver's Pepsi Center and Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium have the chance to hear the...
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| 08.28.2008 |
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Report: Mobile Video Ad Model Not There Yet
Research and Markets has announced the addition of eMarketer's new report "Mobile Video and Television: Ads Wait for a Clearer Picture" to its...
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| 08.26.2008 |
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Silicon Image Wows Crew at Summer Conference
The 200 cable operators attending CableLabs Summer Conference (Aug. 10-13) voted Silicon Image's digital connectivity technology "Best New Product Idea." A publicly traded semiconductor and intellectual property-based company, Silicon Image works in...
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| 08.20.2008 |
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Time Warner Cable Carolina: A Talk with Regional VP Engineering Carl Newberry
What made Time Warner Cable Carolina Region standout as this year's System of the Year? The cover story in the July issue of...
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| 08.12.2008 |
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Several Takes on nDVR
There are plenty of ways to look at last week's court decision that let stand Cablevision's network, or remote-storage digital video recording (nDVR or RS-DVR) platform. There is the Hollywood, or content provider, angle. After all, it was The Cartoon Network...
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| 08.07.2008 |
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Social Networking Across Devices
The term "social networking" is cropping up everywhere these days as companies try to tap into and leverage the phenomenon of creating virtual communities of friends and family and the enthusiasm of the digital generation for texting, blogs and...
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| 08.05.2008 |
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Software Expert on EOD and Navigation
The daily grind of trade journalism is at once improved and complicated by subject matter experts who can explain complexities with ease and charm. The improvement is obvious: An authoritative technologist who unravels mysteries in intelligible sentences is a...
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