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Stay vs. 'Administrative' Stay

The following is a public service announcement for those tracking, and especially reporting on, the ... More

Five Major Takeaways From the FCC Oversight Hearing

The April 30 House Communications Subcommittee hearing gave Republicans a chance to grill FCC chairm

Comedian-in-Chief's Top 10 WHCD Zingers

President Barack Obama laid into some popular targets — cable news, Republicans, critics of h

Updated: Block That TV Reference

FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, well known for peppering his statements with cultural allusions, particul

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Your INTX Tech-Talk Decoder Ring!

EXPECT NO SHORTAGE of technical jargon at this week’s INTX. From the clicker to the cloud, the l... More

Exploring The World Of OpenStack

OpenStack. In computing, and especially distributed computing, it’s a staple of conversa

The World of WebRTC

Here’s a way to let the imagination run wild: Think about your stuff that’s equipped with a Web

Kooky Stuff Makes Scene At CES

The International CES, a sensory overload sprawling across 2 million square feet (that’s 35 footba

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TV's Financial Strength Continues to Face Online Challenges

As I watched a TV interview with Michael Wolff, who was promoting his new book, Television Is the Ne... More

Timing Isn't Everything

When Netflix "suddenly" decided to unleash the third season of its hit Orange Is the New Black six h

While I Was Sleeping, Momentous Developments for Cable's Future

Sometimes the onslaught of daily deals and lush forecasts obscures their real importance: They are c

Nomadic WiFi Enhances Cable's, Others' Competitive Opportunity

A global analysis of broadband services, using nearly five dozen qualitative criteria, finds that "i

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No, the Sky Isn't Falling for the Cable Industry

The media has a deep and abiding bias towards negative stories, particularly when they’re about th... More

Fixing Cable’s Customer Experience Conundrum

It is no secret that consumers believe that cable operators need to improve in the customer-experien

Spectrum Auction Set-Asides Shortchange Consumers

The next tidal wave in mobile data is coming. Not only did traffic grow 70 percent last year on a gl

Understanding the True Value of Semantic Discovery

It’s well known that Netflix invests $150 million per year in its semantic recommendation technolo

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Phone Power: Proliferating Smartphones

Watching hundreds of middle- and lower-income citizens of greater Chicago while in town for INTX ear... More

NAB, Broadcasters, Broadband and The Internet of Things

(Las Vegas, NV, April 13, 2015) – On Tax Day, Wednesday, April 15, the National Association of Bro

Video, Audio, Data, and The Internet of Things

For the past several decades, TV has been the center of my professional life. It got its truest star

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'Red Road' Returns: Is a Casino Inevitable?

Season one of The Red Road on SundanceTV was a murky crime and cultural stew set in the mountains of... More

Some 10 O'Clock Show Reviews

A few previews of shows I recommend early on this week: Longmire, A&E, series 3 pre

Meet Delaware's New NBC Affiliate

Delaware has its first in-state affiliate of one of the top four broadcast networks, as WRDE-TV in R

Vikings Firmly In The Zeitgeist

Michael Hirst has sympathy for pagans, including eighth-century Vikings, and the fate their religion

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Top 5 TV Spider Men

The Internet has been in overdrive over the latest choice to play Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man... More

Tom Rutledge’s 'Texas Two-Step'

Tom Rutledge may be known as a consummate cable operator, having led Cablevision Systems and Charter

Rupert Passes the Baton

There was a lot of ink shed in the past couple of days over the talk that Rupert Murdoch, chairman a

Bright House Critical in Charter-TWC Deal

It may take some time to figure out whether Charter’s $78.7 billion deal to purchase Time Warner C

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Keeping the Promise

On Father’s Day, Discovery Channel and OWN will simultaneously air the documentary Rise: The Promi... More

The Game’s on Cable

With all of the momentum the over-the-top services have gained over the past year in siphoning viewe

What Fox Sports Wants You to Know About Its Women's World Cup Coverage

Fox Sports Saturday will kick off its unprecedented coverage the FIFA 2015 Women’s World Cup from

The Reality of Marriage on TV

Marriage counselors Jim and Elizabeth Carroll have one of the toughest jobs on reality television �

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Musings with ‘Mike & Mike’

Mike & Mike, ESPN’s long-running morning talk show, reached its 15th year anniversary on March... More

Upfronts 2015: Nicking Nielsen

New York--No doubt espousing a sentiment shared by many in the industry, Nickelodeon tweaked Nielsen

Live From MSG, It’s NBA All-Star Sunday Night

For the 23 million who were engaged with NBC’s Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, there

NBA ASG in NYC

If you haven't noticed yet -- and that's fair -- given the locals' performance, the NBA All-St

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Almost Game Time for Comcast’s X1: Report

It’s been a long time since Comcast and Electronic Arts began testing a service that brings “con... More

Netflix Subs Would Pay More to Keep Service Ad-Free

While Netflix is inserting ads that promote its original programming, the over-the-top subscription

Comcast Patent Gets the Drop on Mobile

Offering another hint about its evolving mobile voice strategy, Comcast has recently locke

Google Fiber Responds to Portland ‘Chatter’

Google Fiber acknowledges that it’s continuing to have discussions with city officials in Portland

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Squee! BBC America's The Musketeers

Television Critics Association, Beverly Hills - Well, this could be great fun… BBC Americ... More

FX at TCA: Russell Brand's Epic Take on Sarah Palin

Beverly Hills CA — Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour 2012 The Palins can

Television Critics Association: NBC Executive Session Triggers Merciless Twitter Sniping

Beverly Hills CA - Television Critics Association/Summer Tour 2012 Some of the bloom is off the Ro

Entourage-lite, Showtime's "Episodes" Is Still A Lot of Fun

The second season of Showtime’s Episodes - a send-up of the television industry starring Ma

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Honorable Mentions

TV viewers looking for some strong female-driven dramas have two terrific new options this summer, o... More

Cable Needs A Tailwind

You would be hard pressed to find a better performing category of stocks than cable –

Disconnected

When the 108-year-old hickory tree came crashing through our family room on Monday night, the hou

Kids of Summer

Sometimes you can win a game just by letting your competitor make mistakes.Our cover story this we

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Capacity Observations

DENVER — Capacity. It’s always a hot ticket at tech-fests, like the 2014 Society of Cable Teleco... More

Keeping an Eye Fixed on the Future

If you can imagine a world without on-demand services, cable telephony, or broad

You Say You Want a Revolution?

Disruption and change are historically not high on the cable industry’s to-do list, but those are

Learning How to Lead at SCTE-Tuck

For a newcomer to cable technology like myself, the agenda for SCTE Cable-Tec Expo this we

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