Just in time before AT&T's U-verse launches in 15 U.S. markets: AT&T has signed a distribution agreement with Warner Bros. This means that Warner Bros.' library of movies will be...

Are you happy to see TV or is that a fiber cable in your pants? Experience shows that Verizon can get 10% of households signed up for their FiOS TV service. That result comes about without a huge...

7/5th of all people do not understand fractions A popular mantra is that consumers are increasingly taking control of their media. In fact, I've even trotted out this little ditty a few times when...

No, because Google believes that impoverishing artists and stifling competition is a good thing On Mark Cuban's blog last night he re-posted an anonymous post that hints at intimate details of the...

rumor has it that the AMA will ask that channel surfing syndrome be classified as a mental illness, coverable by health insurance A month and a half ago I wrote about a post called Channel Surfs Up,...

I see a report in Broadcasting & Cable about Microsoft dropping out of the 'It's Our Net' coalition. That is the group of companies that is pushing for net neutrality. The reason for...

Can you see me now? Verizon reports its Q3 results on Monday. One thing that investors will probably hold their collective noses through is the shrinkage of the company's core phone business....

Verizon has been much more aggressive than AT&T in pushing its IPTV service (which is called FiOS). Well, today it is targeting you folks in Tampa that are currently Bright House Network...

Woo, woo! T-Com, a unit of telecom operator Deutsche Telekom, announced the commercial launch of its T-Home service. This includes TV services delivered via the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software...

projections indicate they will get their 3001st customer today! For those of you keeping score, AT&T has been offering its U-verse IPTV service to a total of 30,000 potential homes in san antonio....

In the next 5 years, U.S. telco's hope to have about 12 million IPTV households. Hot on their heels may be China with over 10 million IPTV subscribers by 2011, according to a new report from...

Telephony Online reports that Fiber now passes more than 6 million North American homes and that homes connected directly to fiber has surpassed 1 million. For all of you that likes to keep up with...

Arnold maintains that he is a "Pro Choice" Republican. California became the 8th State to sign a bill encouraging competition in the cable TV industry last Friday. Governor Arnold...

Verizon has an amition IPTV plan that differs from AT&T's, laying the foundation of bringing fiber directly to the home for digital services. Last week, Verizon released subscriber counts for...

aka, Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your market share grow? You've bought your big-screen television and want to find lots of content to see on it - all hopefully in high-definition with...

For now, New Hampshire is safe Comcast territory. Verizon shut off all video franchise negotiations with New Hampshire municipalities, according to a Sept. 1 article in the Exeter News-Letter,...

How important is channel surfing to you? I ask because people grow impatient if they don't get an instant channel change after they press the buttons on their remote. Any wait longer than a...

AOL has teamed with Fusion Entertainment to launch Lat34.com, a new joint venture targeting enthusiasts of "action sports," such as skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, BMX and freestyle...

The Financial Times has news Cisco and AT&T are putting $15.5 Million behind Internet video company Akimbo. The investment underscores the big shift among big media firms toward online services,...

AT&T and Verizon Communications are spending billions of dollars upgrading their networks to deliver Internet Protocol-based TV service to consumers. But most homes today aren't equipped with...