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01/17/2007
CES Wrap from CableFAX
CES Wrap: Cable Feels Pretty Good Apple’s new set-top ports video and music wirelessly from a PC to a TV. The latest Slingbox incarnation lets viewers clip programming from TV and email it to others. Should cable be trembling in its boots? Nah, says Oppenheimer’s Thomas Eagan. "We believe the new products and services announced […]
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01/16/2007
CES Wrap: Cable Feels Pretty Good
Apple’s new set-top ports video and music wirelessly from a PC to a TV. The latest Slingbox incarnation lets viewers clip programming from TV and email it to others. Should cable be trembling in its boots? Nah, says Oppenheimer’s Thomas Eagan. "We believe the new products and services announced at this year’s CES conference are […]
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01/11/2007
Waive Bye: FCC Denies Comcast's Integration Ban Request
Just hours after FCC chmn Kevin Martin told a CES crowd that Comcast’s request for a waiver of the set-top integration ban should be denied, the FCC’s Media Bureau did just that. "It’s time for us to move forward, and to say no to some of the larger operators asking for further delay without date […]
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01/11/2007
More Martin
Weeks after NCTA chief Kyle McSlarrow blasted the FCC’s relaxation of franchise rules because the changes didn’t apply to all video providers (Cfax, 12/21), FCC chmn Kevin Martin offered his take on where the agency and industry diverge. "I think most significantly the cable industry didn’t like that we were making changes to make it […]
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01/10/2007
Comcast on the March: Roberts Outlines New Plan
Watch out, ILECs! Comcast holds big plans for the commercial voice market and will spend $250mln this year (and $3bln over 5 years) going after small-medium businesses, said chmn/CEO Brian Roberts Tues at the Citigroup conference. Roberts estimates 5mln such businesses are currently within Comcast’s footprint, and he expects to enlist 25% of them over […]
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12/29/2006
Predictions '07: Execs Offer Best Guesses For the Year Ahead
Cfax readers’ prophecies for the coming year run the gamut, from convergence to HD to telephony. Here’s a sampling of what some industry players see on the horizon for ’07, both the challenges and the opportunities: NBCU TV Networks distribution pres Bridget Baker: "Cable’s ’07 challenges are ‘good problems to have.’ Cable’s high-speed connections to […]