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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, […]
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11/02/2011
Rogers Trials New Flexible TV Packageâ¬
Rogers Communications has launched a form of a la carte TV: the Digital Starter Pack. ?? "Customers have told us they want to build their own TV packages and only want to pay for the channels they watch," said John Boynton, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Rogers, in a statement. "This trial […]
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11/01/2011
Why Cable Should Care About CDNs
By Linda Hardesty, Associate Editor This month’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo features two workshops dealing with content delivery networks (CDNs), and there's a good chance the topic will come up during the
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11/01/2011
An Energy Policy For Cable Operators: Import More Revenue
Operators are busy developing services and architectures aligned with trends in consumer expectations, online activities and social-networking behaviors. At the heart of these initiatives is the creation of converged experiences that integrate the consumer’s most valued media – premium video content – with the Web, device, social and app-enabled activity now part of their everyday […]
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11/01/2011
Susan Adams: A Doer Who Gets Things Done
"I’ve never really selected a position for the title or money," says Susan Adams, senior vice president/Engineering & Technical Operations at Comcast – Northeast Division in Manchester, N.H. "I pursued career options that were the right fit for my skills and interests and good for the business. I’ve always wanted to have fun and be […]