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ATSC Pushes Mobile TV Standard Forward By Todd Spangler - 12/01/2008
The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) announced Monday that it has elevated its proposed specification for mobile digital television—to allow broadcasters to transmit video and data to handheld devices—to “candidate standard” status. More
MediaFLO Gearing Up For DTV Push By Todd Spangler - 11/30/2008
Minutes after hundreds of analog TV broadcasts across the U.S. flicker off the air in February, Qualcomm's MediaFLO USA will be ready to start pumping mobile-television feeds over the vacated spectrum as it hopes to add more than 40 cities to its footprint after the DTV switchover.
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Verizon Stitches Mobile Phone Into Bundles By Todd Spangler - 06/17/2008
Verizon Communications—responding to consumers who are giving up their landlines and using wireless as their primary voice service—rolled out a new double-play offer that combines broadband Internet and wireless on one bill.
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Mun2 to Add Social Networking to Web Site Laura Martínez - 06/16/2008
Mun2 is relaunching its Web site (holamun2.com) to include more interactive and social networking features for users to build profiles provide their email address, their age, and interests.
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Cable Show Tech Papers: A Reader's Guide by Leslie Ellis - 06/16/2008
A common question posed to anyone who writes about technology is this: How do you get ideas about what to write about? For me, a recurring trove is the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s annual collection of technical papers.
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True To The Playboy TV Brand By Stuart Miller - 06/15/2008
Playboy TV chairman and CEO Christe Hefner in a Q&A discusses how the programmer has evolved along with changing technologies and casts her eye to the future.
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Oxygen Tries New Colors By Linda Haugsted - 06/16/2008
Oxygen will try to “break out of the pink pastel ghetto” with a brand refreshening, including a revised logo and multiplatform outreach efforts designed to attract what its executives call “Generation O.” Jason Klarman, general manager of the network, now part of the NBC Universal family of cable networks, describes the woman-geared network's target audience as “tr...
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Comcast Filings Hint At Video Gadgets By Todd Spangler - 06/06/2008
Comcast has designs for two new devices that would pry TV programming loose from subscribers’ living-room television sets—products clearly intended to protect its core cable video business from emerging Internet-delivered content players.
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Cable Hall of Fame Six cable industry leaders were inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame last week during a ceremony held in conjunction with The Cable Center’s Cable Days at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
History Wraps Up NYC Subway To promote the third season of its hit series ‘Cities of the Underworld,’ History executed the first-ever full advertising wrap of the exterior and interior of a New York City subway car.
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