Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has updated its mobile application for the iPhone and iPod Touch to enable customers to update their DVR settings remotely, including the ability to search and schedule new recordings, cancel recordings and sort TV listings by category. The free application, which launched last summer, extended most Comcast…

Cable operators are looking for ways to enter the wireless business as consumers disconnect their landline phones in favor of cell phones, and seek ways to connect their laptops while on the go. Cox Communications is building its own cellular network from the ground up; and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time…

U.S. hockey fans needed a pay video subscription to watch the USA-CAN women’s gold medal game online but the men’s victory over Switzerland was barrier-free—and paidContent has learned the Friday men’s semi-final with Finland is likely to follow suit. NBC already has promised to broadcast Friday’s game live across the…

Video ad network TidalTV has completed the $16 million second round funding it initiated last fall, Mediapost reports. As we reported in October, the Baltimore-based TidalTV raised an initial $8.9 million portion. Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Interactive Capital, the cable operator’s venture arm, participated in the round, as did previous backers…

If the grilling of Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC top execs is any indication, the merger of the two companies faces an uphill battle in the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee. Comcast chairman Brian Roberts and NBCU president Jeff Zucker found themselves repeatedly challenged, and occasionally cut off, by passionate bordering on…

Boxee’s inability to carry Hulu programming is a matter of Congress now, thanks to the proposed Comcast-NBCU deal. During this morning’s hearing at the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Zucker and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Chairman and CEO…

Next week, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) starts the tricky task of splitting in two: keeping its corporate brand intact while creating an entirely new brand for its current and upcoming consumer cable products. COO Steve Burke told analysts during the Q4 earnings call Wednesday that the rebranding to Xfinity will roll…

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Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs head to the Hill Thursday for what promises to be a long—and probably repetitive—day of questions about the joint venture that would give Comcast control of NBCU. First up, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the…

Congressional hearings have two parts: written testimony and the Q&A that all too often sounds like it is scripted. While the companies aren’t publicizing the remarks in advance of Thursday’s command performance in Washington, the written testimony has already been submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on…

In Thursday’s (Feb. 4) hearing, the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Communications & Internet Subcommittee will be looking at a merged Comcast/NBCU’s “unique and commanding” position in the media marketplace, including what could be its power to “fundamentally shape the way Web video evolves,” according to language in the memo.…

Comcast-owned white label video service ThePlatform is launching what it is describing as the biggest overhaul of its video management system since the company was started a decade ago. Apart from a total remake of the system’s user interface (and it is very different, i.e. a novice might actually be…

With a lengthy pitch on the public interest value of creating a new content-focused joint venture that will boost quantity, quality, diversity and “local focus,” Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and General Electric jointly filed a merger application/public interest statement with the Federal Communications Commission Thursday (Jan 28),…

It’s taken nearly a year, but the U.S. Department of Justice has given the merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation (NYSE: LYV). The new entity will be called Live Nation Entertainment. In addition to securing the go-ahead from the DOJ, the two ticket sales and events promoters have gotten the…

A major shakeup in the cable world as Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) brings in an outsider to run its vast cable operations and Charter (NSDQ: CHTR) loses its CEO. Neil Smit trades up by millions of subscribers from Charter Communications, where he has been CEO since 2005, to be president of…

Sports fans with satellite subscriptions may finally get access to some regional sports networks that cable programmers—particularly those owned by cable operators—have been able to keep exclusive through the so-called “terrestrial loophole.” The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-1 today that multichannel video providers delivering programming by cable—primarily Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA),…

In a presentation at an industry conference this afternoon, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) chairman and CEO Brian Roberts offered his rationale for the cable operator’s decision to purchase 51 percent of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) in a deal valued at $30 billion: it’s about getting better production values and scale for…

Tuesday started with a reminder of just how sought after *Comcast* COO Steve Burke is as a top executive: Warren Buffett added him to the Berkshire Hathaway board. The Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) board knows too—and how much it would hurt to lose the executive responsible for making sure the *NBC…

NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) CEO Jeff Zucker issued a memo Wednesday, Dec. 16, detailing the members of the transition team that will oversee the firm’s proposed take over by Comcast Corp. (NSDQ: CMCSA) The memo was first revealed by Mediabistro’s TV Newser. According to the memo, the “Operational Transition Team,”…

In the widest domestic application yet of TV Everywhere, Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) launched its still-beta Fancast Xfinity this morning across all of its markets. The service, a year in the making, allows cable video subscribers to watch video online that might not otherwise be available. It’s currently limited to so-called…