Telecompetitor

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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). ...