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Cable Digital News - Video - Discovery Exec: Free Web TV Model Is a Biz Kill - Telecom News Analysis
Light Reading | 25 days 16 hours 51 minutes ago
DENVER -- CTAM Summit -- Despite the growing consumer appetite for high-quality broadband video, don't expect Discovery Networks to add its programming to the Web for free.

Discovery Exec: Free Web TV Is a Biz Kill
Cable Digital News | 25 days 5 hours 8 minutes ago
DENVER -- CTAM Summit -- Despite the growing consumer appetite for high-quality broadband video, don't expect Discovery Networks to add its programming to the Web for free.

Discovery Exec: Free Web TV Model Is a Biz Kill
Cable Digital News | 25 days 15 hours 56 minutes ago
DENVER -- CTAM Summit -- Despite the growing consumer appetite for high-quality broadband video, don't expect Discovery Networks to add its programming to the Web for free.

Cable Digital News - Video - thePlatform Plugs In 'TV Everywhere' - Telecom News Analysis
Light Reading | 3 days 5 hours 41 minutes ago
MSOs like Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) have centered most of their forays into the world of "TV Everywhere" on their own portals and Websites, but video publishing firm thePlatform Inc. is releasing components that let programmers offer that kind of access directly from their own Websites. (See Comcast Web TV Trial: 10,000 Being Served and thePlatform Tackles 'TV Everywhere'.)

thePlatform Plugs In 'TV Everywhere'
Cable Digital News | 2 days 5 hours 45 minutes ago
MSOs like Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) have centered most of their forays into the world of "TV Everywhere" on their own portals and Websites, but video publishing firm thePlatform Inc. is releasing components that let programmers offer that kind of access directly from their own Websites. (See Comcast Web TV Trial: 10,000 Being Served and thePlatform Tackles 'TV Everywhere'.)

Cable Digital News - Video - thePlatform Tackles 'TV Everywhere' - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 3 days 5 hours 41 minutes ago
SEATTLE -- Programming networks face an increasing number of technical options and requirements as they evaluate their "TV Everywhere" plans. Today, thePlatform, the leading white-label video publishing company, announced a new suite of features designed to enable programmers to provide "TV Everywhere" capabilities on their own Web sites, while preserving their financial and content rights arrangements with TV service providers.

Cable Digital News - Video - Cisco: Set-Top Data Could Boost 'TV Everywhere' - Telecom News Analysis
Light Reading | 1 day 17 hours 52 minutes ago
NEW YORK -- With programmers looking to distribute content to consumers on the Web and mobile platforms through projects like "TV Everywhere," Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) says it's looking to drive the sector by measuring how consumers are digesting video through set-top boxes and other devices.

Cable Digital News - Video - Concurrent, FourthWall Connect on Ads - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 1 day 21 hours 9 minutes ago
ATLANTA and PLANO, Texas -- Concurrent (NASDAQ: CCUR), a worldwide leader in video and media data and advertising solutions, and FourthWall Media (formerly BIAP) today announced a partnership to deliver the industry's first comprehensive, end-to-end advanced advertising solution for broadband operators. Comprised of Concurrent's media data management solutions along with FourthWall Media's ETV Platform, Ad Widgets and TV Widgets , the combined solution gives operators the ability to deliver...

Cisco: Set-Top Data Could Boost 'TV Everywhere'
Cable Digital News | 1 day 4 hours 53 minutes ago
NEW YORK -- With programmers looking to distribute content to consumers on the Web and mobile platforms through projects like "TV Everywhere," Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) says its looking to drive the sector by measuring how consumers are digesting video through set-top boxes and other devices.

Cable Digital News - Video - Liberty Shareholders OK DirecTV Spinoff - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 1 day 13 hours 2 minutes ago
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Liberty Media Corporation ("Liberty Media") (Nasdaq: LCAPA, LCAPB, LINTA, LINTB, LMDIA, LMDIB) announced that, at the previously announced special meeting of stockholders held on November 19, 2009 at 9:30 a.m., ET time, the holders of Liberty Entertainment common stock entitled to vote thereat, approved, among other things, the split-off (the "Split-Off") of Liberty Entertainment, Inc. ("LEI") from Liberty Media and the business combination transaction between The DIRECTV ...

Cable Digital News - Video - Sezmi Founder: We'll Replace Cable & Satellite TV - Telecom News Analysis
Light Reading | 1 day 13 hours 35 minutes ago
NEW YORK -- Taking shots at cable MSOs and satellite TV operators, personalized TV startup Sezmi Corp. threw down the gauntlet here at the Future of Television conference Thursday.

Cable Digital News - Video - Comcast Reups With TV Guide Network - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 19 hours 13 minutes ago
PHILADELPHIA -- TV Guide Network, a leading entertainment network reaching more than 80 million households, announced an extension of a multi-year carriage agreement with Comcast that will bring Comcast customers original programming, comprehensive program listings and the latest information on the best programs, hottest stars and latest trends in entertainment.

Cable Digital News - Video - Harmonic Goes Lite for Cable IPTV - Telecom News Analysis
Light Reading | 12 hours 59 minutes ago
Adding yet another proprietary idea to the coming cable IPTV wave, Harmonic Inc. (Nasdaq: HLIT) is proposing Docsis Lite, an architecture that would send video traffic through IPTV-optimized edge QAM devices, bypassing the cable modem termination system (CMTS).

Cable Digital News - Video - Level 3 Revs Up Adobe Flash Servers - Telecom News Wire
Light Reading | 1 day 18 hours 25 minutes ago
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT - News) today announced at the 2009 Streaming Media West Show that it has now integrated the latest Adobe Flash Media Server software into a single Content Delivery Network (CDN) platform. Level 3 has taken a unique approach to deploying Flash Media Server 3.5 software by merging the Adobe technology and its own, proprietary, advanced HTTP delivery technology into a single multi-protocol platform. This solution positions Level 3...