Blackarrow, a heavily backed developer of dynamic cable advertising has raised a big $20 million second round from past backers *Cisco Systems*, Inc., *Comcast* Interactive Capital, *Intel* Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. The company has previously raised about $18 million in two parts of what they're calling...
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Media Center, the video delivery unit of Comcast Cable, has bought out all of the assets of Radiance Technologies, a provider of asset-delivery systems for distributing and managing large digital video files, for about $5 million, reports Multichannel. Radiance, based in Sunnyvale CA and founded in...
-- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads are a viral hit: While two ads featuring the odd couple of Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates were widely panned, online video tracker Visible Measures says the spots are soundly beating the software giant's new "I'm A PC" ads by a margin of 4.3 million...
-- Microsoft's Seinfeld ads are a viral hit: While two ads featuring the odd couple of Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates were widely panned, online video tracker Visible Measures says the spots are soundly beating the software giant's new "I'm A PC" ads by a margin of 4.3 million...
MTV Networks has acquired Social Project Inc., the company that runs social media aggregator Flux.com, which has been working with the Viacom unit to build up community tools around its sites over the past two years. Terms weren't disclosed. The announcement was made at a press conference at MTVN's...
In his Q&A at Goldman Sach's Communacopia conference, Michael Angelakis, Comcast's (NSDQ: CMCSA) CFO, projected confidence about this past week's market turmoil and how the MSO is prepared to handle the softening economy. "We are not immune from credit and financial markets. But we are resilient and can take...
After going over the new fall shows, Les Moonves, CBS Corp.'s (NYSE: CBS) president and CEO, offered words of praise for DVRs and TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), claiming that the video-on-demand hasn't hurt ad dollars. Speaking at Goldman Sachs' Communicopia conference, Moonves said he was also surprised by how the...
Two fledgling digital projects have struck agreements designed to give them legs:-- *NBCU*'s Digital Health adds six sites: *NBC Universal's* Digital Health Network, a video-heavy ad net that was launched last spring, has added six new sites to its distribution stream. The addition of more partners come as the...
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) claims it streamed at least 12 million hours of Olympics content across its digital platforms—HD, broadband, mobile VOD and interactive television. Some of the highlights:-- Broadband: NBCOlympics.com attracted 7 million visitors who watched more than 30 million streams of live and VOD coverage, equaling 7.5...
It looks to be a brutal Q3: Both Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and CBS Corp (NYSE: CBS). have cut their respective outlook, warning investors that they have been taking a hit on the ad slowdown and the wider economic pain touching all businesses right now.-- Reuters: Viacom's Q3 earnings...
Entertainment Studios is launching six high-definition channels on Verizon (NYSE: VZ) FiOS TV under a multi-year deal that will program content related to cars, pets, comedy, travel, food and entertainment. The new HD networks—Cars.tv, Pets.tv, Comedy.tv, MyDestination.tv, Es.tv and Recipe.tv – are getting their first run on FiOS in...
MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA) is readying Tribes, an online ad network tied to its various cable channels, Mediaweek reports. Tribes will pull in outside sites to establish ad sales and content syndication for MTV, VH1, Spike TV and CMT over the next several weeks. At some point after the...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has placed wireless head Ralph de la Vega in charge of all consumer services including landline phone, broadband, IPTV and mobile, WSJ reports. AT&T is now organized in four divisions: consumer, business, infrastructure and diversified businesses. De la Vega retains the CEO role at the company's...
Although they don't currently target ads to their broadband subscribers, representatives from AT&T (NYSE: T), *Time Warner Cable*, and Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) appeared before a Senate committee and promised to adopt a system that would seek customers permission first before serving behavioral ads, ClickZ reported. In a period...
Just in time for the financial market's wild ups and downs this week, Bloomberg Television is making a tentative step toward syndicating its videos outside of its own website in a deal with AOL (NYSE: TWX). The business news network will run about 20 videos a day on the...
Project Runway won't show up on Lifetime this fall, after all, following an NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) victory in New York State Supreme Court. The Weinstein Co's hit reality show was supposed to switch from Bravo to the ABC-Hearst-owned network for its sixth season in November. But NBCU won...
Major League Baseball postseason games will be available live online in U.S. for the first time, but there's a catch and it's, well? major. Access will be limited to 23 participating airports as a special four-hour pass to the "Airport Edition" of MLB.tv. Moreover, the $4 four-hour pass will...
Poor Customer Service and High Rates Are Biggest Reasons for Switching Providers ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Consumers would prefer to bundle communications services with telecommunication companies by a 2 to 1 margin to cable companies if given the choice, according to the second annual Telecom-Cable Industry Satisfaction Study...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tollgrade Communications, Inc. , a leading supplier of service assurance solutions for the telecom and cable industries, will exhibit its latest IP service assurance solutions at the Broadband World Forum Europe conference taking place in Brussels from September 29 through October 2, 2008. ...
Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLGD), a leading supplier of network service assurance products for the telecom and cable industries, and Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. (TSX: ZL), the market leader in access infrastructure and residential gateway voice solutions, today announced the availability of the specification for the Line Test Agent, which defines...
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