Iowa
City of Bellevue In Iowa to Sunset Cable TV, Citing Streaming Network Competition
Bellevue’s broadband network will continue to operate.
Expert Opinion
Why offering the Quad Play would help Cable’s Stock Price
Image via Wikipedia The mobile phone market is growing exponentially and will continue to evolve for years to come. Why has the Cable Industry not moved into the lucrative mobile phone market? It could definitely be a revenue bonanza, as it currently is for telecom companies. See (The cable company
Expert Opinion
Video Content: Movie Theatre’s Still King – Kiosk and Cable Watchers on the Increase
Courtesy Market Force Information, Inc. According to research performed by Market Force Information, Inc., movie watchers still prefer going out to enjoy the Theatre movie experience for various reasons, including: * Experience of watching movie on the Big Screen * Not wanting to wait to see new releases * Enjoying a movie with
Expert Opinion
Retrans-Consent: Be Careful What You Ask For!
With the recent battle between Cablevision and Disney over Retransmission Consent in New York regarding WABC-TV carriage on Cablevisions 3.1 million subscribers, and thereby producing a coalition of Cable Providers to petition the FCC to intervene in negotiations, is akin to the saying: (be careful
Expert Opinion
Fox Vs Time Warner Cable: More Revenues for Fox-Higher Rates for Consumers
Two giants in the telecommunications industry battle publicly over Retransmission Consent. Both Fox and Time Warner Cable have let cooler heads prevail in their war over money to be doled out in fees to Fox by extending their negotiations beyond the Dec 31, 2009 deadline. At issue, the Fox owned bro
Infrastructure
Cable industry: at a Cross-Roads
Cable providers are looking at a cross-roads with the current climate brought on by a new political landscape, a Democratic Congress, with an FCC mandated to change the future of broadband, and a public viewed skepticism of the Cable Industry. This adds up to significant changes which might threaten
Expert Opinion
Comcast Consummates the Deal: Now the Tough Part Begins
It happened, as predicted by some and discounted by others; a Comcast-NBC Universal merger that has wide-ranging implications on both future Content and Internet usage. However, the tough part for Comcast begins now, today, and that is to placate dissenters like the Consumer Federation of America, t
Broadband's Impact
Copyright Office: No Compulsory Licenses for Internet Companies
WASHINGTON, July 1 – The U.S. Copyright Office on Monday said that Internet companies streaming local television signals over the Internet should be denied a compulsory copyright license.
