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Although it has a much lower profile than the core residential business, cable's commercial-sales units are poised to maintain double-digit revenue growth in years to come, executives say. New technologies [...]

NEWS CORP.'S IMPENDING PURCHASE OF DirecTV has sent the cable industry scurrying to strategy sessions to determine what the international media mogul will do with the 11.5-million subscriber direct- broadcast-satellite [...]

Top engineers at some of cable's largest MSOs are now implementing strategies to deliver Internet protocol telephony and tiered data services as natural evolutionary extensions of the DOCSIS-based IP platform [...]

RETRANSMISSION CONSENT: ROCKY HOUSE RECEPTION The House Telecommunications Subcommittee completed it trilogy of hearings last week on cable's relations with broadcasters, telco entry and satellite competition, with perhaps the only [...]

Basic cable programers, far from being left out of a future cable world of 150 to 200 compressed channels, are laying the groundwork to extend their franchises beyond their existing [...]

Andrew Steele hasn't seen anything like it. The cable industry is in a mad dash to implement digital simulcast architectures this year and next, clearing up transport capacity and moving [...]

The programming networks inside The Walt Disney Co. are overhauling their video-on-demand strategies and developing a cross-brand programming initiative that combines content from ESPN, Disney Channel, Toon Disney, SoapNet, Jetix, [...]

Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Mike LaJoie is a longtime veteran of the MSO, and he's currently responsible for providing the underlying technology to launch video-on-demand, HDTV, digital video [...]

ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- TVN Entertainment Corp. signed a video-on-demand distribution deal with Buckeye Cablevision, Scientific-Atlanta Inc. released its HDTV/digital video recorder set-top, and ESPN announced it will offer college football [...]

The cable industry did its level best to coronate HDTV at its national convention in Chicago in June. A separate HDTV pavilion assembled by CableLabs served as an entry point [...]

Two years ago, the big engineering issue facing premium programmers and cable operators was making sure that linear feeds -- both traditional analog and new digital signals -- were delivered [...]

Few companies in the world have the breadth and scope of content to take advantage of the unfolding broadband revolution as Sony Corp. First there's the content: Its Sony Pictures [...]

If the country's broadband push is likened to a race, then the competition between cable operators and telcos has changed from a 100-meter sprint to a 10,000-meter long-distance run. Both [...]

'We're seeing customers say, 'I don't know if I wont to spend $49 with DSL.'' 'Rules regarding our DSL networks have literally added hundreds of millions of dollars in cost [...]

CABLE NEWS SERVICES PLUMB THE LOCAL DEPTHS Allbritton's ALLNEWSCO premieres Oct. 7 in Washington; separate regional newscasts will cover Maryland, D.C. and Virginia Two weeks from today, the nation's third [...]

A buoyant Jim Mooney will lead a resurgent cable industry into annual convention in New Orleans this week, followed by the usual Washington and credit market problems but more confident [...]

In some major media companies, there are executives who believe the lines between broadcasting and cable will blur over time. At Westinghouse Broadcasting, that belief has translated into action that [...]

Recently launched and new cable programing services had a slow 1990, and although most continue to plod along, 1991 is shaping up to be just as tough. While most report [...]

The announcement of Tele-Communications Inc.'s national advertising campaign, and its call for the National Cable Television Association to coordinate an industrywide public relations campaign (see page 62), has reinvigorated the [...]

Ted Turner surprised many in journalism and cable last week by tapping W. Thomas Johnson, chairman of the Los Angeles Times and former broadcast executive with the station group owned [...]

While basic cable percentage growth is slowing down, and pay increases are virtually stalled, cable's small but growing ancillary revenue streams-principally local advertising and pay per view-are enjoying double-digit growth, [...]

There is a fundamental change taking place within the cable industry that will have a profound effect on programers, equipment suppliers and cable marketers and advertising sales staffs in the [...]

Reporting by Karen Brown, with technical analysis from Matt Stump CableLabs Report: Keeping Up Won't Be Too Expensive Both Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. are building networks they say [...]

By Matt Stump Imagine Communications wants to help cable operators save bandwidth by making the delivery of video-on-demand streams more efficient. To get there, Imagine is pitching a new encoding [...]

By Matt Stump Ops Look at Gear To Carry Traffic On Fiber Networks The cable-Sprint Nextel Corp. joint venture that plans to merge video and broadband capabilities onto a mobile [...]

By Matt Stump Analyst Estimates Rollout at Under $100 Per Home When Cablevision Systems Corp. chief operating officer Tom Rutledge announced the company's network digital video recording test in March, [...]

By Matt Stump Operators Push for Phone and Data Customers, Without TV Comcast cable subscribers in Denver get a $10 break if they order high-speed Internet access for $44.95, along [...]

By Matt Stump Selling Networks A La Carte Yields Minimal Revenue A la carte pricing of video channels may someday bring in customers by the hundreds of thousands. But, if [...]

By Matt Stump Software Helps Operators Protect Customers' Computers Cable operators routinely prevent Internet viruses from entering their network. But they have been largely powerless at keeping their broadband subscribers' [...]

By Matt Stump Cisco's Compton Sees The Technology in Cable's Future, Too Earlier this year, Kip Compton returned home. The Comcast Corp. vice president of video and media architecture rejoined [...]

By Matt Stump Cinemax On Demand is expanding its programming lineup from 50 hours per month to 150. Affiliate Cablevision Systems Corp. is the first cable operator to agree to [...]

By Matt Stump Feature Provides New Outlet for Internet Content Atlanta-- Time Warner Cable plans to add a 'Quick Clips' short-form video feature to its on-demand offering, hoping to cash [...]

By Matt Stump Cable operators at the National Show this week will get the chance to speed delivery of their programming to portable computer users who use Slingbox technology to [...]

By Matt Stump Motorola's 'Follow Me TV' Will Link Cell Phones to Set-Tops Motorola Inc. this week will demonstrate a new technology that will allow consumers to transfer movies and [...]

By Matt Stump Service Providers Face Networking Challenges The multimedia home, in which every electronics device is interconnected, is some consumers' idea of a dream house. Most broadband service providers [...]

By Mike Farrell & Matt Stump Phone Partnership Proves Complex Undertaking It took several months to hammer out an agreement among Sprint Nextel Corp. and four major cable operators to [...]

By Matt Stump 'Look Back' Service Would Allow Replays From Last 48 Hours Time Warner Cable is negotiating with cable and broadcast network programmers to expand its Start Over recording [...]

By Matt Stump The worldwide leader in sports believes its coverage of the planet's largest sporting event will provide a carriage assist for its broadband service. All 52 matches of [...]

By Matt Stump Internet Startup's 11 Channels Will Include Cable Networks A new Internet-TV company plans to launch a subscription service later this year that will deliver cable networks and [...]

By Matt Stump Content Players' Multiplatform Promises Raise the Expectations of Consumers Aimed at the rising consumer appetite for ubiquitous access to video content, cable operators' new business mantra is: [...]

By Matt Stump Joint Venture to Bring Integrated Services to Cell Phones Cable won't be a bystander as consumers begin using cell phones and other portable devices to access video, [...]

By Matt Stump Mag Rack is launching a movie promotion this week for the on-demand premiere of the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line , at the same time it [...]

By Matt Stump Network Operations Centers Now Monitor Voices, Games, Not Just Hardware The network operations center is not just about monitoring hardware anymore. It's also about services. As cable [...]

By Matt Stump Sprint, Cable Operators Lay Foundation To Shift Cell Phone Traffic to Cable Nets Handing off telephone calls from a cellular-telephone network to a cable system is a [...]

By Matt Stump Cablevision Set To Light Up a Networked System Cablevision Systems Corp. is launching a groundbreaking technical trial today (March 27), in which its subscribers will record TV [...]

By Matt Stump Comcast Corp. customers will be able to provide a little historical perspective on an upcoming programming gambit from The History Channel. The service is partnering with Comcast [...]

By Matt Stump Operators Are Banking on Fiber Capacity, Switched Video AT&T Inc. is building an Internet protocol-based video network that proponents believe will deliver, in effect, an infinite number [...]

By Matt Stump Cable operators who rely on set-top and headend equipment from Motorola Inc. can now offer their subscribers a compatible standard-definition digital video recorder from an independent supplier, [...]

By Matt Stump Microsoft, Alcatel, S-A Help Set Service Apart AT&T Inc. and three key vendors -- Alcatel, Microsoft Corp. and Scientific-Atlanta Inc. -- are working on what would be, [...]

By Matt Stump Internet-protocol television is a digital television service that uses the IP format to deliver video services via a broadband connection. Because IPTV uses the Internet and sends [...]