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10/13/2003
DISNEY SEEMS TO HAVE THE MULTISERVICE FEVER
Rhetorical question of the month: Is MovieBeam, the new VOD service to a proprietary set-top, the best way for Disney to show appreciation to its cable MSO customers for paying all those program rate increases? The concept triggers visions of the past, present and future: DIVX — the studios’ failed 1997-98 venture with Circuit City […]
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08/11/2003
FALL SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS ON CABLE
Black college football game schedule is still being finalized. MAAD Sports Profiles (Thur. 11:30 p.m.) and MAAD Sports (Sat. 12 p.m.). Enhances its TV partnership with NBC for the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships with new Sunday primetime coverage starting Oct. 5 from host site Oak Tree at Santa Anita. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association […]
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08/01/2003
VoIP Takes Off
After years of crawling, today’s VoIP walk seems like a veritable sprint. A few cases in point: Details please This momentum builds PacketCable qualifications, which CableLabs began in December, and VoIP deployments by Charter in Wisconsin and Liberty Cablevision in Puerto Rico, also from late last year. Discussion of VoIP has, thus, quickly turned to […]
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07/28/2003
DVRS: CLIMBING THE SUMMIT
David Letterman may routinely mention how he “TiVoed” a show, but digital video recording has yet to gain traction among consumers. That’s why DVR was the subject of much discussion — and a tutorial led by C Cubed principal and DVR analyst Jennifer Choate — at the CTAM Summit, where marketers grappled with the need […]
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07/28/2003
The Trouble With Selling VOD
Any doubts that competition for video customers has reached a fever pitch were put to rest last week when SBC and EchoStar Communications agreed to bundle their services on a single bill. In a deal in which EchoStar will receive a $500 million investment from the No. 2 local telephone company, SBC customers can now […]
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07/28/2003
ALPHABET SOUP
BY SHIRLEY BRADY One of the most buzzed about presentations at last week’s CTAM Summit in Seattle was how to promote programming in an on-demand world, a session led by promo guru Lee Hunt. The buzz on Hunt was that he’s been tapped by Cablevision to help visualize its hi-def near-future at Rainbow Networks and […]