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Major Hollywood studios and select cable companies have joined in a $30-million Movies on Demand® promotional campaign dubbed, "The Video Store Just Moved In." Partnering with cable co's Armstrong, Bend Broadband, Bright House Networks, iO TV, ...

TWC is Bringing Faster Services to its Residential Customers in parts of North Texas, with complete area coverage launching in the coming months DALLAS, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Time Warner Cable today announced its fastest Internet experience yet with the launch of Time Warner Cable Wideband Internet in North Texas. The announcement was made by Robert Moel, regional vice president ...

The recent Disney/ABC-Cablevision flap over retransmission of WABC in the New York area – which almost led to the Oscar’s broadcast being blacked out to 3 million Cablevision subscribers - has prompted a coalition of sorts among cable/DBS/telco providers, including the ...

Sprint's wholesale VoIP efforts with the cable industry are well documented. At one point in early 2009, cable companies using Sprint's wholesale IP voice service passed 31 million homes, servicing 4.5 million of them with VoIP service. Sprint served both large and small ...

Cell phone, the cable & satellite TV industry and banks led the way as disgruntled customers filed 9.7% more complaints to the Better Business Bureau last year than they did in 2008. Amidst the tough economic and financial ...

Comcast is rolling out the latest of a string of mobile applications for the Apple iPhone, one that enables remote programming of Comcast DVRs, SVP and General Manager of Communications and Data Services Cathy Avgiris wrote on the Comcastvoices blog yesterday. The remote ...

Cable companies have been busy recently. They are moving with some element of precision in building a 'perfect competitive storm' of sorts. In so doing,  they are laying the ground work for some tough times ahead for their telco competitors, absent an effective response. Cable is leading the assault with ...

Agreement With Zito Media Will Provide All-MPEG-4 Line-Up to 10 Cable Systems Across the United States SHERMAN OAKS, CA--(Marketwire - February 22, 2010) - Avail-TVN, the largest digital media services company in North America, today announced that Zito Media will become the first multi-system cable company in the United States to deploy its MPEG-4 linear video service across its footprint. ...

Suddenlink, the St. Louis, Mo based cable MSO, is accelerating their DOCSIS 3.0 strategy. They doubled their D3 footprint in 2009 and now reach 23% of homes passed with the ultra fast broadband service. Suddenlink has approximately 1.3 million customers in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, ...

Comcast recently launched their version of TV Everywhere and branded it Xfinity. They took a lot of heat for that brand choice. Let’s just say it wasn’t universally accepted. How do you pronounce that thing anyway? In true ‘300 lb gorilla’ fashion, Comcast could obviously care less. ...