Level 3 Escalates Dispute With Comcast, Tries To Block NBCU Merger
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Level 3 has raised the stakes in its dispute with Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) over payments for broadband connections. In a letter to the FCC, it… Read more »
Qualcomm Sells FLO TV Wireless Spectrum to AT&T For Nearly $2 Billion
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Last June, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs described the ultimate exit path if wireless TV service FLO TV didn’t turn around: “Say the… Read more »
Forget Cord-Cutting. Introducing The Real Problem: Net-Nipping
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Yet more evidence disputing cord-cutting came Wednesday in a year-end TV-ratings report from Turner Broadcasting. But the good folks at Turn… Read more »
As Video Space Heats Up, SpotXchange Closes $12 Million Round
Over the next five years, online video ad spending is expected rise 19.6 percent annually, according to last week’s Magna Global forecast. S… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.15.10
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» Hearst and Hachette execs are set to meet in the next few weeks to finalize deal talks. But before that happens, it’s losing so… Read more »
Comcast’s ‘Xcalibur’ Seeks The Edge On Google TV
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is testing a new set-top box that would bring together Web and TV programming, reports The Wall Street Journal. Little… Read more »
Streaming As Kiosk Killer? Not So Fast
The logic seems pretty airtight: As digital streaming increases, the kiosks that deliver physical discs will face extinction. But there’s ma… Read more »
Comcast Nixed Metered Pricing. But What About Time Warner Cable?
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Earlier this week, Comcast Corp. (NSDQ: CMCSA) president Neil Smit stated pretty emphatically it had no plan to institute usage-based broadb… Read more »
What Netflix Wants Next (Hint: Not In-Season TV Shows)
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Given the implausibility of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) paying top dollar for current primetime series, the next logical question is, what does the… Read more »
Clearwire: $1.1 Billion Debt Offering, Possibly With More Funding To Come
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One day after Verizon announced details of its LTE network, its WiMax competitor Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) cleared up a little of the funding c… Read more »
FCC’s Net Neutrality Proposal: The Mobile Takeaway
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today laid out the FCC’s position on net neutrality ahead of a vote later this… Read more »
Proposed FCC Net Rules Would Cripple Video Consumption
FCC commissioner Julius Genachowski has finally put together proposed network neutrality regulations, and made good on his intent to protect… Read more »
Were Level 3′s Charges Against Comcast Overblown?
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Yesterday, Level 3 created a stir by accusing Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) of violating net neutrality. Today, the row between the two companies is… Read more »
Comcast Squeezes Money From Level 3 For Streaming Video
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Skeptics have called the idea of net neutrality “a solution in search of a problem,” suggesting that when supporters of the concept are pres… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Clearwire/Sprint; Vodafone LTE; CSL
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– Clearwire/Sprint: The 4G race is on, and with Verizon gearing up to launch LTE next month, the two operators have added five more cities… Read more »
How The FCC Could Ruin Republicans’ Thanksgiving
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Just last week Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt pronounced network neutrality dead for the year. Shows you what he knows. Read more »
Pre-Merger Pragmatism Nothing New For Comcast’s Burke
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For all the fuss over Steve Burke laying out the planned structure for a post-approval Comcast-NBC Universal (NYSE: GE), you’d think this wa… Read more »
Streaming-Only Netflix Debuts In The U.S.; Less Content But Cheaper, Faster
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Take that, Hulu. Less than a week after the video portal dropped its price for Hulu Plus to $7.99, a dollar below the basic Netflix (NSDQ: N… Read more »
NBC, Fox, 10 Others Ante Up In Mobile TV, First Content To Come In 2011
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Mobile TV has had a mixed reception in the U.S. – with the assets of one recent high profile failure, Qualcomm’s Flo TV, the subject of spec… Read more »
SNL Kagan: Cord Cutting’s A Fact; Other Factors Drive Down Pay TV Subs Too
Despite the insistence that there is no meaningful cable TV cord-cutting by media executives like Time (NYSE: TWX) Warner’s Jeff Bewkes and… Read more »
FCC, Google Point Fingers In Wake Of Network Neutrality Fiasco
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Blink and you may have missed at Wednesday’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, but signs of a serious rift between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and th… Read more »
Eric Schmidt: Google TV Can Only Help ‘Dumb TV’
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) chairman/CEO Eric Schmidt responded to the chorus of criticism from the broadcast TV business Monday with the suggestion… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.15.10
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» Zagat’s high-rise paywall has kept the guidebooks’ reviews from being plundered all over the internet — but it has also allowe… Read more »
BT Vision Has 50k Sky Subs And Is Adding BBC iPlayer
BT (NYSE: BT) says it added 24,000 IPTV customers between July and September – a third more than the same time last year – taking it up to 5… Read more »
Digital Home: Nielsen’s Stats On Tablets, 3D TV And Online Viewing
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Just how connected and technologically advanced of an audience are we? Sure, DVRs are becoming more and more commonplace and it may be intui… Read more »
Ofcom Sets Out White Spaces Rules While Skype Offers Free WiFi
The UK’s congested wireless networks may soon be getting an extra traffic lane: today, Ofcom took one further step along the route to puttin… Read more »
Digital Home: Netflix Balances The Benefits And Costs Of Broadband
It’s taken several more years for broadband penetration to get to the level Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) had expected, but now that it has, it’s bee… Read more »
Digital Home: Boxee’s Ronen: People Don’t Want To ‘Surf’ Their TVs
As Nielsen’s research showed during the previous Battle for the Digital Home conference panel, hardly anyone is truly cutting their cable co… Read more »
Digital Home: Nielsen’s Idell: No One Is ‘Cutting The Cord’ — Yet
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Considering the spate of basic video subscriber losses at the cable companies this past year, talk of consumers cutting the cable cord has b… Read more »
Our Digital Entertainment Digest 11.05.10
Here’s our take on some of the latest news at the intersection of technology and entertainment:
» ‘Megamind’ Invades Farmville: Dream… Read more »
Clearwire Cuts 600 Staffers As Capital Remains Elusive; Delays Smartphones
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Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) said in its third quarter results that it is taking a number of steps to reduce costs before its cash runs out in mid… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.04.10
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» Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Publicis Groupe’s VivaKi are launching an ad exchange platform for video and mobile. [NYT]
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How Hollywood Will Squeeze Netflix
It seems the studios have figured out one way to ease the pain of declining DVD revenues: putting the screws to Netflix. Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.28.10
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» The Economist Group debuted its “Ideas People Channel,” an online ad network with nearly 30 publishers chosen by readers as the… Read more »
WPP’s Kantar Video: ‘Gross Ratings Points’ Are For TV, Not Online Video
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After years of planning, WPP Group’s Kantar Video is releasing a video platform for marketers that will let them syndicate video and track i… Read more »
Virgin Media Revenue Rises As It Rolls Out Super Fast Broadband
Virgin Media’s revenue increased 6.4% year on year in the third quarter to £978m, as it announced it would roll out superfast 100Mb broadba… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10.20.10
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» Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels says he’s not stepping down, contrary to previous reports this week. [Chicago Tribune]
Specific Media Buys Video Ad Net BBE
Online ad firm Specific Media has acquired video ad net BBE (fka Broadband Enterprises), MediaMemo reports, citing unidentified sources. The… Read more »
Broadcom Buys Beceem For $316 Million To Add 4G To Its Portfolio
Here’s a big exit on the infrastructure side of the business: Broadcom has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Beceem Communications. While B… Read more »
Channeling Jesus Through Roku: Florida Church Offers Set-Top Services
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A Florida church has set up its own Roku channel for live services — and is buying set tops for some congregants. Northland calls itself “a… Read more »
