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Cuban on HD Fraud, Running NCTA and Gas Prices

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

The outspoken owner of HDNet talks about how the American consumer is being defrauded on HD by big media and about what he'd do if he ran NCTA for a day....

The Hottest Operators: 2008 Top Ops Awards

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

CableFAX: The Magazine honors the outstanding work of MSOs and independent operators. Also in this issue: The 2008 Top 10 Places to Work in Cable....

Business/Finance

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

AT&T kicks off Wed what should be yet another interesting multichannel earnings period while trading near its 52-wk low, a weakness that Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett...

Competition

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

DirecTV 's blimp will tout something other than the DBS op's content in NYC Mon, when it will fly over Madison Ave to promote the 2nd season of AMC 's "Mad Men" (Jul 27). Last year, the dirigible...

At the Portals

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

Verizon complained to the FCC Thurs of "the growing practice" of vertically-integrated programmers refusing to sell competitive providers access to HD programming feeds—and accused Cablevision of doing just...

In the Courts

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

The federal appellate court in D.C. denied Verizon 's stay request that would have blocked an FCC decision requiring the telco to cease its retention marketing practices related to...

Competition

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

DirecTV and Verizon have joined AT&T in partnering with NBCU to offer Olympic Games coverage on various platforms. DirecTV has added related programming to its new VOD service, and will...

Competition

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

Verizon 's video franchise agreement with NYC has received NY PSC confirmation, paving the way for citywide FiOS TV in the coming weeks. — NBCU and AT&T are partnering to make the Olympic Games a...

Competition

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

FiOS TV has begun its assault on WA, earning Mon night its 1st state franchise approval from the community of Lynnwood, where the telco plans to begin offering the service later this summer. — AT&T has...

Tru2way and the Triumph of Industrial Design

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT

On a conceptual level at least, cable’s competitive edge against wireline and wireless rivals got sharper with this year’s tru2way announcement. The tru2way agreement on interactive television and set-top box technologies among the six large MSOs and Sony, signed in April and noticed in FCC...