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11/03/2011
Comcast Garners an Emmy for Xfinity TV App
Comcast took home an Emmy engineering award for its Xfinity TV iPhone and Android application. Since rolling out the app in November 2010, the MSO says it has been downloaded 3.5 million times. It has undergone several improvements in the course of the year. For more see Comcast Adds Video Streaming To iPad App. Click […]
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11/02/2011
Time Warner Companies Inch Forward with Tablet Apps
Time Warner Cable hopes to launch its TWCable TV application for Android tablets in late November, according to a posting on its corporate blog. The MSO first launched its TWCable TV app for iPad in March, followed by some content distribution rights troubles (For more, see Technology Matters in Content-Distribution Disputes). The operator’s first Android […]
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11/02/2011
DirecTV Enjoys the Highest ARPU in Pay-TV Industry, Says Infonetics
Cable is taking hits from multiple competitors, according to Infonetics Research’s "Pay TV Services and Subscribers" report, which forecasts and analyzes the telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video services markets. “In 2008, cable video made up 59 percent of the global pay TV market, satellite video brought in 38 percent and IPTV was just […]
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11/02/2011
LG Embeds Advertising SDK Into Smart TV Platform
LG Electronics has expanded its offerings for television application developers, content distributors and advertisers with an integrated advertising platform for Smart TV applications. The company’s complete ad solution includes in-app advertising support incorporated into LG’s app development SDK, management and optimization of the publisher’s ad inventory, and ad monetization through LG’s alliance with YuMe. LG’s […]
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11/02/2011
ACA: Limit IP Closed Captioning Rules to OTT Distributors
The American Cable Association (ACA) again urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt new closed captioning rules that will create a light-touch implementation program for Internet Protocol-delivered programming. ACA’s threshold recommendation is that the FCC apply the new IP captioning requirements only to online video programming providers and distributors that use IP to distribute […]
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11/02/2011
Hindery, King Included in 2012 Cable Hall of Fame
The Cable Center today announced that six industry leaders have been elected to The Cable Hall of Fame Class of 2012. The honorees will be inducted during the annual Cable Hall of Fame Celebration, held in conjunction with Cable Connection–Spring, a week of cable industry events, including the NCTA Cable Show, in Boston May 21-23, […]