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Time Warner Cable groups digital channels by genres
June 8, 2010 9:31 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsTired of surfing back and forth across the wide universe of channels on your digital tiers? Time Warner Cable is making it easier for its subscribers to find the content and shows they want by grouping channels together into similar genres, such as sports.
Rogers goes mobile with World Cup coverage
June 7, 2010 9:20 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsRogers Communications is putting its On Demand Online platform to good use this week with three options for World Cup soccer coverage.
Pace takes over top spot for worldwide STB sales
May 24, 2010 9:45 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsBased on preliminary findings by IMS Research, Pace needs to hand out those foam “We’re No. 1!” fingers you see at sporting events.
Say goodbye to Cableland
May 20, 2010 10:00 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsE tu Cableland? Denver’s diminishing status as the cable capital of the world will take another hit if Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s plan to sell Bill Daniels’ former home, which is known as Cableland, comes to fruition.
Comcast tall in the saddle with Project Cavalry
April 29, 2010 9:38 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsComcast is reaping the benefits of its all-digital conversion, which is known internally as Project Cavalry.
D3 available to more than half a million homes in Ariz.
April 27, 2010 9:58 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsThe folks at Cox Communications provided me with an update on last week’s DOCSIS 3.0 deployments in southern Arizona after deadline yesterday. In addition to Sierra Vista, D3 was also rolled out in Tucson, Casa Grande, Coolidge and Florence.
Videotron gears up for this summer’s wireless deployment
April 23, 2010 9:35 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsCanadian cable operator Videotron is getting all of the pieces in place to launch its own wireless network sometime this summer.
Volcano casts pall over European trade shows
April 21, 2010 9:35 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsThe eruption of a volcano last week in Iceland, and the ensuing cloud of ash that shutd own airports across Europe, has thrown a wrench into U.S. vendors’ plans to attend industry shows abroad.
Time Warner Cable shifts into D3 in Dallas
March 16, 2010 9:09 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsTime Warner Cable is taking orders for its DOCSIS 3.0 tiers in its Dallas service area, which marks the cable operator’s fourth deployment of the faster wideband tiers.
TWC notches 3rd D3 deployment in Buffalo
March 12, 2010 8:15 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsIt’s official: Time Warner Cable has launched a DOCSIS 3.0 service in Buffalo, N.Y., which marks the third announced deployment of the wideband service.
Update: Cox’s Caller ID on TV service
March 3, 2010 9:01 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsA spokesman for Cox Communications provided an update to the cable operator’s Caller ID on TV deployments to date after I filed my story on Monday.
EBIF: It’s now
February 25, 2010 10:12 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsFor those who have been in the cable industry for some time, the road to interactive TV has been long, winding and sometimes tortuous with a few dead ends, but now there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Shaw gears up for Gigabit Internet, RFoG trials
February 18, 2010 8:27 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsWhile Google’s announcement last week in regard to a planned 1 Gigabit fiber-to-the-home trial garnered a lot of ink, virtual or real, Canadian cable operator Shaw Communications has been planning its own Gigabit FTTH trial for some time.
Addendum: Suddenlink bows faster D3 speed
February 11, 2010 9:30 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsSuddenlink Communications spokesman Pete Abel followed up with some additional information on the company’s expanded DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts including the news that a faster download speed of 36 Mbps was launched earlier this week in Lubbock, and Midland Texas.
NCTA shuffles top-MSO ranking to include satellite, telco providers
February 9, 2010 8:34 am | by Mike Robuck | Blogs | CommentsRecently, I was reading a press release from Bright House Networks that referenced it being the nation’s seventh-largest MSO. Since I was so used to writing that BHN was the sixth-largest MSO, I asked a Bright House media rep about the lower ranking, and she said that Verizon had recently surpassed it to become the sixth-largest MSO.
