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Sports Programming: Competitive Advantage or Ransom, or Both?
8/9/10 at 8:42 PM by Bernie Arnason
Video service providers who aren’t big (or rich) enough to launch their own regional sports networks are well aware of the situation revealed by The Oregonian and the availability of the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers telecasts. Access to sports programming is expensive – too expensive ...
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NCTC Membership Fight Stirs Up Controversy, FCC Asked to Intervene
6/10/10 at 10:46 AM by Bernie Arnason
The National Cable Television Cooperative is a video content buying consortium, made up of hundreds of cable companies, large and small. NCTC has a long history of pooling buying power of its members for expensive video content, lowering per subscriber fees for its members as ...
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Comcast’s HITS Begins Terrestial Fiber Distribution of Video Content
5/6/10 at 8:51 PM by Telecompetitor
National Cable Show, May 6 2010 – HITS®, a business unit of the Comcast Media Center, (CMC - Cable Show Booth #2141) today announced a national terrestrial fiber distribution service for delivering video programming to cable MSOs. The new solution is made possible by the cable industry expertise of the CMC, supported by tier 1 conditional access from Verimatrix ...
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FCC Seeks Comment on Comcast/NBCU Joint Venture
3/22/10 at 9:07 AM by Joan Engebretson
The Federal Communications Commission could get an earful in response to a request for comment it issued last week in connection with the NBC Universal/Comcast joint venture proposed in December. The commission is asking for comment about the partners’ request ...
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Comcast-GE Reach Agreement on NBC Universal
12/3/09 at 9:24 AM by Telecompetitor
Comcast and GE to Create Leading Entertainment Company
Philadelphia, PA and Fairfield, CT - December 3, 2009
Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA, CMCSK) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) announced today that they have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture that will be 51 percent owned by Comcast, 49 percent owned by GE and managed by Comcast. The joint venture, ...
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Will Comcast-NBCU Be Too Powerful?
11/23/09 at 10:13 PM by Bernie Arnason
Should Comcast be successful in its bid to buy NBC Universal, it may be too powerful say some detractors, including smaller cable companies. Comcast already controls significant content properties, including several regional sports networks. Adding NBCU’s content empire will catapult Comcast into one of the ...
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Skitter and NTTC Partner for Video Content Licensing
9/29/09 at 9:46 AM by Telecompetitor
September 28, 2009 (Atlanta) — Skitter, Inc. and the National Telco Television Consortium, LLC, (NTTC) today jointly announced a partnership to provide content licensing, programming services and marketing support to telecommunications service providers using the Skitter.TV video platform. NTTC will work with Skitter.TV customers to help secure both national and local broadcast and cable content licensing, advise the service ...
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Suddenlink Now Has 250K Phone Subscribers
8/18/09 at 11:24 PM by Bernie Arnason
Suddenlink announced they have reached the 250K phone subscriber milestone. The cable MSO began offering phone service in 2007. According to Suddenlink, their IP voice subscribers place and receive "up to six million calls a day, about twice as many daily calls as the company’s network handled ...
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NRTC Signs More Telcos for Programming
7/21/09 at 9:44 AM by Telecompetitor
Opportunity for Recurring Revenue, Flexible Packages and Exclusive Online Tools Figure In Their Decision.
For Immediate Release
DATE: July 20, 2009
Contact: Andrea Cumpston
Phone: 703-787-7156
E-mail: acumpston@nrtc.coop
July 20 , 2009 [Herndon, VA] –The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) has announced that more of its telco members are building their competitive advantage by signing on to deliver the Cooperative's programming for Internet Protocol television (IPTV). ...
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At the End of the Day, Content Still Matters Most
9/10/08 at 10:39 PM by Telecompetitor It’s cliché, but oh so true – content is king. Look at most industry conference agendas these days, whether they be broadband or wireless focused, and content is the center of attention. The tag line for this year’s IBC Conference, a leading global telecom industry event taking place next week in Amsterdam, is “the world of content creation management delivery.” Most of the CTIA I.T. and ...
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It’s cliché, but oh so true – content is king. Look at most industry conference agendas these days, whether they be broadband or wireless focused, and content is the center of attention. The tag line for this year’s 
