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06/29/2006
OCAP Starts Getting Real
At last week's SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver, OCAP may have not been center stage, but it was still on the minds of many attendees
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06/20/2005
ONLINE EXTRA: Comcast’s Matt Strauss Discusses Select On Demand
By Shirley Brady Following is an expanded version of Shirley Brady’s interview with Matt Strauss, Comcast’s VP of video on demand programming investments. Click here to read her Nov. 2004 interview with Strauss. Shirley Brady: A lot of the opportunities for start-up digital networks at Comcast these days is on VOD: specifically, on your Select […]
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04/04/2005
Inside the CIA
If EchoStar had launched its "Stop Feeding the Cable Pig" campaign in 2002, there would have been little that Cox’s cable systems could have done—short of using a needle—to deflate the satellite TV provider’s nasty attacks that featured 22-foot-long, 16-foot-tall inflatable pigs bearing anti-cable slogans. Luckily for Cox, EchoStar started its mudslinging smear tactics in […]
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04/04/2005
The Mass. Ave. Backslapper
The first time I met Kyle McSlarrow, on the third floor of NCTA’s offices in Washington, D.C., he shook my hand and patted me on the back. Now, I’ve been covering cable for more than a decade, and that has never happened to me inside NCTA’s headquarters. In fact, I can safely say that no […]
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01/24/2005
Meet the System–Mitchell, S.D.: Piling On in Corn Country…Feds Attack Local S.D. Cable Op
Mitchell, S.D., has a rather odd claim to fame. "It’s home to the world’s largest corn palace," says Tom Simmons, VP of public policy for Mitchell’s cable provider, Midcontinent Communications. "It actually goes back to the 1800s, and remarkably it hasn’t changed that much since then. The question is, why did they build it?" Midcontinent […]
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11/08/2004
ONLINE EXTRA: Q&A With Matt Strauss
By Shirley Brady Since former Mag Rack general manager Matt Strauss joined Comcast in early June—as its first VP for On Demand programming, reporting to EVP programming investments Amy Banse—he’s been busy developing Comcast’s first proprietary VOD networks under the umbrella of Select On Demand (www.selectondemand.com). His first batch of new channels—a diverse mix including […]