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DARWIN WAS RIGHT about nature and technology: only the strong survive. The broad deployment of speedy broadband services and a small-but-accelerating trend of pay TV cord-cutting have ushered in a [...]

THE FOCUS OF THE CABLE industry used to be a lot simpler. Its lens was generally trained on how to deliver and wield a quality package of pay TV, broadband [...]

The cloud is ready to rain down some new video providers to take on cable TV. Using the unwieldy moniker of 'virtual multichannel video programming distributor,' these new services, despite [...]

IN ADDITION TO delivering advanced services into the home, cable operators are also getting more intimately involved with apps and offerings that reach into all corners of the home. That [...]

THE RISE OF over-the-top television services and a growing cord-cutting trend are applying pressure to cable's pay TV business as never before. As the quarterly impact of subscriber losses on [...]

Free and subscription video-on-demand services sparked a major shift toward over-the-top viewing. Now, the emergence of virtual pay TV providers is stoking another big OTT movement--this time toward linear, live [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- The old axiom that the only constant is change was in play at last week's annual SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo, as operators keyed on new technologies and platforms that [...]

If it wasn't clear before, Comcast's deal to acquire a big chunk of Icontrol Networks delivered a powerful message to the home-security and automation sector: The cable industry is through [...]

Over-the-top video, once considered an enemy of cable operators and other traditional pay TV players as their subscriber bases slowly eroded, has quickly become a key component of video strategies [...]

Virtual reality is poised to become extremely real, and programmers and studios are lining up to take part in what's expected to be a wild ride. Content creators are shooting [...]

NEW ORLEANS-More than any single force shaping the television and broadband industry, technology is driving the biggest change. Engineers and executives steeped in hardware and software acronyms, domestic and international, [...]

The pomp and pageantry for the latest round of Apple's inventions drew hordes of smartphone and tablet fans, but most eyes were watching for the technology giant's latest gambit into [...]

For the cable industry, FTTP is no longer a four-letter word. Thanks to increased competition and the emergence of over-the-top video and other bandwidth-gobbling services, fiber-to-the-premises architecture is now an [...]

The tectonic plates of the TV world are shifting and few can feel it like John Hendricks. Hendricks, the cable pioneer who founded Discovery Communications and turned it into a [...]

FOLLOWING SUCCESS ON THE WEB and in digital video, 'programmatic' advertising business models are starting to make a connection to the TV. And while the idea of bringing more data [...]

Five years into its deployment, the TV everywhere experience remains far from perfect. On top of a new industry-wide marketing campaign, cable operators are smoothing out the kinks in the [...]

For decades, cable operators have competed under a gentlemen's agreement that persists even today: If you don't steal my customers, I won't steal yours. Part of it was simply a [...]

With 2013 about to fade into memory and the pace of change in the cable TV industry moving at warp speed, it's a prudent thing to look ahead. But looking [...]

THE RACE TO BUILD OUT 'fiber in the sky' is on. The next-generation mobile standard known as 5G, the fifth generation of the technology, is poised to create a new [...]

The race to build out 'fiber in the sky' is on. The next-gen wireless standard known as 5G is poised to create a new platform that is not just faster, [...]

The race to build out 'fiber in the sky' is on. The next-gen mobile standard known as 5G, the fifth generation of the technology, is poised to create a new [...]

THE NATION'S MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS have built an industry on the back of so-called 'beachfront' spectrum that provides an unmatched combination of penetration and coverage. With those premium, licensed bands [...]

THE LATEST OVER-THE-TOP TV PROVIDER to target cord-cutters and younger audiences isn't in much of a sporting mood. In fact, sports is pretty much off its menu. Taking a different [...]

AFTER BEING HELD OFF at arm's length, over-the-top video services are now being embraced enthusiastically by cable operators and integrated on their set-top box platforms at an accelerating rate. The [...]

Presenting The Jimmy Fund with a check for $4.2 million raised during the 2017 WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon at Fenway Park in Boston, from left: Entercom Boston VP/market manager Phil [...]

KOUROU, French Guiana--'We have more internets!' [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After years of tension and toil, that was the joyful exultation of a ViaSat engineer the night of June 2, nearly 45 [...]

FOR CABLE OPERATORS and other internet service providers, offering a solid broadband service no longer ends where the wire connects to the home. Now that most devices in the home [...]

WHEN SLING TV streamed onto the scene in February 2015, it was all alone, the first virtual multichannel video programming distributor to deliver a subscription package of live-TV channels that [...]

NAB SHOW, the National Association of Broadcasters's annual conference in Las Vegas, has long been a central meeting point for TV and other videofocused companies. But the importance of the [...]

THE 5G RACE is on. Operators around the world are embarking on prestandard trials of 5G, an emerging, next-generation wireless technology that promises to deliver a jaw-dropping array of futuristic [...]

Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu have all but locked up the mass-market entertainment options for subscription video-on-demand services. In their wake, a flurry of more targeted services have surfaced. Today, [...]

LAS VEGAS--The emergence of the Internet of Things has quickly been followed by the smartness of everything. As a key theme here at CES last week, it is clearly no [...]

The cable industry has had an inconsistent relationship with CES, the annual technology product event set to take place this week in Las Vegas. In most years, MSOs have ceded [...]

The Consumer Technology Association's annual gadget-fest gets underway this week in Las Vegas, and once again a top challenge will be filtering the cacophony of noise generated by more than [...]

NO MATTER IF IT'S DELIVERED ON 4G OR NEW, speedier 5G networks, video traffic is going to dominate the mobile world. That's according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, which [...]

SUBSCRIPTION STREAMING SERVICES are gaining ground with consumers, but there's apparently plenty of runway ahead before they'll reach a saturation point. In the U.S., nearly half of consumers are still [...]

HULU ISSUED SOME REVEALING DATA that shines some light on how the over-the-top service has become a hub for binge viewing, defined in this case as watching three to five [...]

AS THE INCOMING HEAD OF RUCKUS NETWORKS, the wireless/mobile-focused company that's now part of Arris, Ian Whiting said he expects to stay the course and avoid any sudden adjustments to [...]

AMAZON PRIME Video Channels, the aggregated subscription video-on-demand offering for Amazon Prime members, accounts for more than half of all direct-to-consumer subscriptions, The Diffusion Group found in a study of [...]

YOUTUBE TV, the over-the-top TV service launched more than a year ago, doesn't have the most subscribers among the streaming crowd, but it appears to be leading the pack in [...]

OVER-THE-TOP VIDEO continues to grow in popularity from a consumer perspective, but it remains a business challenge for both ad- and subscription-based service providers as they try to gather scale [...]

CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS is using its own Worldbox platform to pump up its pay TV service, but it will be adding another retail option to its product mix later this year. [...]

SPECTRUM MOBILE, the coming wireless offering from Charter Communications, will reportedly focus on plans and pricing that are in lock step with Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service. Citing details from a [...]

FULL-FLEDGED DEPLOYMENTS of Full Duplex (FDX) DOCSIS are still at least a couple of years away, but CableLabs believes vendors are getting close enough in their technology development to be [...]

THE U.S. won't have a team in the hunt at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, but the nation's TV programmers and distributors will have an active role and [...]

Roku Retains Edge in Streaming Player Market (May 31) Roku kept its lead in the streaming media player market in the first quarter even as Amazon's Fire TV gained a [...]

THERE ARE MANY 'THINGS' that comprise the larger (and growing) Internet of Things market, but connected wearables, such as smart watches, are leading the consumer adoption curve, CSG found in [...]

The race to build out 'fiber in the sky' is on. The next-gen mobile standard known as 5G, the fifth generation of the technology, is poised to create a new [...]

CANOE, the cable operator-backed supplier of dynamic video-on-demand ad technology and services, said ad impressions on its platform surpassed 6 billion in first-quarter 2018, up 25% from the year-ago period. [...]

T-MOBILE HAS NOT spilled all the beans on its coming, national over-the-top TV service with respect to pricing and packaging, but the company remains firm in its commitment to deliver [...]