DISH calls for retrans reform
DISH has blacked out Raycom Media for over a week, and CBS has been off Time Warner Cable for the past week, now DISH has called on Congress to update the local TV carriage rules and protect consumers....
View ArticleDish and Raycom reach agreement in 36 markets
Shortly after publicly calling for retransmission reform in the light of its ongoing dispute with Raycom Media, pay-TV provider DISH has now reached agreement with the broadcaster regarding the...
View ArticleBT Sport 1 million sign ups, viewers?
BT announces it has more than a million households ready to watch the Barclays Premier League on BT Sport with “the million customers for BT Sport… added in just three months”. BT Sport is free with BT...
View ArticleFCC wants end to CBS v Time Warner Cable
FCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn says she is not happy with the lack of progress in the CBS v TWC re-trans dispute. “The commission is actively monitoring the status of this particular dispute, and...
View ArticleHorizon for Ireland
Liberty Global has launched its Horizon set-top for UPC Ireland. Mark Coan, vice-president sales and marketing of UPC Ireland, said that with the introduction of Horizon it was “taking television to...
View ArticleTW and TiVo win tech Emmys
Time Warner Cable is to be handed two Emmy Awards for Technology and Engineering for 2013 for network DVRs and video-on-demand dynamic ad insertion. TiVo was awarded for its personalisation and video...
View ArticleCableLabs goes global
CableLabs, the non-profit research and development consortium for the cable industry, has announced a substantial expansion of its global member base, adding 14 new members in Europe, Asia and Latin...
View ArticleKabel Deutschland accelerates
Kabel Deutschland Holdings (KDH) Germany’s largest cable network operator, has released its consolidated financial results for the first quarter ended June 30, 2013 showing steady growth across the...
View ArticleCourt threatens German cable M&A
A higher regional court in Germany has reversed an approval by the country’s cartel office for Liberty Global’s €3.16 billion acquisition of KabelBW, throwing the merger into doubt. The Duesseldorf...
View ArticleBT, Virgin Media wholesale channel deal
With the start of the English Premier League football season just over 48 hours away, BT and Virgin Media have agreed a a three year deal to ensure millions of Virgin Media TV customers can enjoy full...
View ArticleBT Vision will fail
Harsh? I don’t think so. Forget everything else, if a provider can’t do better than a voice loop telling you a lie about when the broadband service will be restored, it has no business pretending to be...
View ArticleSynacor in LatAm push
Synacor, a provider of next-gen startpages, TV Everywhere solutions and cloud-based Identity Management (IDM) services, across multiple devices for cable, satellite, telecom and consumer electronics...
View ArticleIPTV bucks downward US subs trend
Amid a plunge in subscribers for cable, and now satellite providers, IPTV was the only segment of the U.S. pay-TV market to achieve growth in the second quarter, according to a new report from...
View ArticleVUDU on Google Fiber
Google has announced that Walmart -owned Internet movie delivery service VUDU is now available on its Google Fiber TV service. Writing in the Google fibre blog, Sarthak Ray, Google Fiber Product...
View ArticleCisco’s Chambers: ‘STBs not real profitable’
John Chambers, Chairman and CEO of Cisco, has suggested that the company’s set-top box business has adversely affected its profitability and that transitioning customers to cloud-based technology will...
View ArticleUS Senators urge CBS/TWC dispute resolution
US Democrat Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have sent a letter to Glenn Britt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Cable, and Leslie Moonves, President and Chief Executive...
View ArticleGrupo TV Cable, Bireme Systems forge strategic alliance
Grupo TV Cable Ecuador, the largest cable system operator in Ecuador and a founding member of the TEPAL consortium, and Bireme Systems LLC have announced a strategic alliance to provide comprehensive...
View Article19% broadband share for fibre by year-end
Worldwide fixed-line broadband subscriptions continue to grow at a healthy pace in 2013. According to ABI Research, fibre-optic broadband market share will reach 19 per cent by year-end 2013, from 16...
View ArticleCopper still big in Europe broadband future
Most of Europe will still be getting its broadband over copper telephone lines by 2020, according to a report by Point Topic. Despite all the campaigning for fibre all the way to the home (FTTH),...
View ArticleVodafone, Kabel Deutschland deal cleared
The German competition authorities have reported they have no objections to UK mobile phone giant Vodafone plan to take over Kabel Deutschland. “Following a preliminary examination on our part, we’ve...
View Article