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06/08/2010
West Coast Beat: Dribs and Drabs from L.A. Comcast-NBCU Hearing
The House Judiciary 's field hearing in L.A. Mon on Comcast-NBCU 's proposed transaction wasn't very public given that there was no Webcast of the event. Even Twitter updates were hard to come by
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06/07/2010
Virgin Media to Sell its VMtv to BSkyB
Virgin Media will be selling its Virgin Media Television (VMtv) division to rival British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) for approximately $234 million in cash. In addition, BSkyB struck a deal with Virgin to carry its own cable channels – including Sky1 and Sky Arts – on Virgin’s cable line-up. Meanwhile, Virgin will have the option of […]
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06/04/2010
In the States
Cox Business is teaming with Bloomberg TV , Cisco and 13 cable ops to offer a series of free Webcasts designed to offer small business owners direct access to advice from leading experts on topics critical to
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06/03/2010
Ch-ch-changes
Lots of big programming hires following the Memorial Day weekend. His name was kicked around in relation to the BBC Worldwide America post, and on Wed it became official. Former Nick/MTVN exec Herb Scannell is
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06/01/2010
Optical Testing What Do System Ops and Techs Really Need?
The seemingly insatiable demand for more and more bandwidth is a significant driver for today’s optical testing and equipment market that, according to Frost & Sullivan, is expected to see revenues of more than $600 million worldwide by 2013. Broadband customers want download speeds of anywhere between 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps to better accommodate […]
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06/01/2010
PON Power Cable Operators Get 'Passive' Aggressive
Cable operators are starting to explore a variety of technologies for moving fiber closer to homes and businesses using Passive Optical Networks (PONs). Analog PON technologies like RF over Glass (RFoG) promise to increase bandwidth while keeping operational costs down. Meanwhile, digital PON technologies (including Ethernet PON [EPON] and Gigabit PON [GPON]) are being used […]