Verizon 's city-to-city FiOS TV march continues, as the DC Council granted preliminary approval Tues night to a plan calling for the telco to service the entire city within 10 years. Meanwhile, the... FULL STORY »
DBS
Competition
DISH deployed Amdocs tech to improve... FULL STORY »
Business/Finance
Sanford Bernstein 's Craig Moffett dropped the 12-month price target on DirecTV to $23 from $26 and cut DISH to $14 from $19, while keeping them at "market-perform." In a note to clients... FULL STORY »
TELCOS
Competition
AT&T is expanding its broadband usage-based trial to Beaumont, TX, reports the Beaumont Enterprise . It launched a similar trial last month in Reno ( Cfax , 11/4) , giving customers a 1-month... FULL STORY »
Carriage
Verizon launched BlueHighways TV on FiOS systems in NY, Philly... FULL STORY »
OVERBUILDERS
Earnings
RCN delivered 20% growth in total rev to $187mln, but added only 4K customers sequentially and 15K YOY. Total RGUs increased 4% to approx 915K, with video and data RGUs increasing 3% and 8%, respectively, and... FULL STORY »
Earnings
RCN delivered 16% growth in total rev to $184mln, but added only 3K customers sequentially and 15K YOY. Rev from... FULL STORY »
BROADCASTERS
Over-the-Airheads
After broadcasters lost many of the Bowl Championship Series college football games to ESPN , NAB 's board has adopted a resolution "to support the rights of all Americans to have free access to... FULL STORY »
Hired Guns: Retrans Negotiations Covering a Lot of Ground
Besides the always rancorous issue of cash for carriage, issues such as multicast streams, channel positioning pre- and post-DTV transition and boilerplate items are hot topics in retrans consent negotiations... FULL STORY »
WEB
Intricate Pipeline: Online Availability of TV Content Continues to Grow
The number of outlets offering free online viewing of TV eps and clips has increased greatly this year—so much so that we're wondering just how many people, come the DTV transition in Feb, will decide to... FULL STORY »
Online
Golf Channel has inked a deal with online resource GolfLink to develop programming... FULL STORY »
PEOPLE
People
DISH Network 's svp, programming Eric Sahl will leave by year-end, reports Sports... FULL STORY »
People
Edward An joined Time Warner Cable as vp, legislative affairs. He most... FULL STORY »
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