OpenTV will offer Macromedia Inc.'s Flash Player with its HTML engine, Device Mosaic 5.0, and will integrate the Flash Player with OpenTV's middleware. OpenTV says its middleware is deployed in more than 20 million set-top boxes worldwide, and Device Mosaic is in more than 7 million set-tops worldwide. …

Cable Center President and CEO Jim O'Brian says he's "very, very pleased" with the roughly 500 attendees at last night's Hall of Fame dinner at the Western Show in Anaheim. "We had a full house," he says.

The event honored this year's inductees into the Center's hall of fame. Each received a sculpture of the letter "C" on a stand, he says. Winners were introduced by a presenter and the audience saw a three-minute video on the accomplishments of each, who then spoke. Cable veteran Ted Turner gave a presentation, he adds.

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers earned its re-accreditation from the American National Standards Institute, it says. The national standards body's renewal means SCTE's operating procedures were deemed fair, open and balanced by ANSI's executive standards council. SCTE was first accredited by the organization in 1995 and applied for the re-accreditation at the end of last year. …

California Cable & Television Association spokesman Paul Fadelli says The Western Show ended up with 321 total exhibitors, with 63 at show-within-a-show CableNET. Twenty of those were specific to interactive sectors, he says.

As of a week ago, CCTA expected a 38 percent lower turnout in attendees from last year, he adds. Other off-the-cuff points: This year's show encompasses three halls instead of four, Fadelli says. The organization's $14,000-a-pop non-exhibiting participant program had 17 takers — mostly programmers. …