ITVT reports that VOD equipment provider, SeaChange International, has released preliminary financial results for its fiscal second quarter (2006), ended July 31st. SeaChange says that the results are...

The BBC's TV channels will be made available on the internet, BBC Director General Mark Thompson has confirmed. "We believe that on-demand changes the terms of the debate, indeed that it will...

For those of you who like to keep tabs on which vendors are supplying various portions of the IPTV food chain, here is some information about an small IPTV solution for 10,000 phone customers with...

Maybe the Telcos are going to dodge a regulatory bullet in their quest to provide IPTV services. Texas just passed a law establishing statewide franchises, effectively exempting telcos like Verizon...

Nielsen moved forward in measuring video-on-demand viewership by announcing a collaboration with software company Anystream, whose software products are targeted at broadband video applications....

Veoh Networks, a San Diego start-up, is described as an Internet Television Peercasting Network. They also completed a Series A round of financing led by Shelter Capital Partners. No where could I...

I have been watching a company called Rentrak (nasdaq:RENT) for a while. It is based in Oregon and in the information processing business. But why I watch it is that during the last year, they have...

The value of TiVo's shares declined over 6% in heavy trading last Thursday, after Reuters reported that directv CEO Chase Carey had said that his company would cease marketing and promoting...

In a first across the nation, the Texas State House and Senate passed bills last week that would allow telcos to apply for statewide cable-TV franchises. If Gov. Rick Perry signs the bill, it will be...

I've reported here a number of instances of established media companies using the Internet to reach a new generation of viewers directly. Just about everyone of them says that getting advertising...

Broadcasting and Cable points out an interesting quote from Brian Roberts, Comcast Corp. CEO. "Our goal of 1 billion IPTV or VOD streams in 2005 is now quite certain." He said this last week...

In today's Wall Street Journal: "In the latest sign that Verizon Communications Inc. is serious about entering the TV business, the telephone giant is set to announce that it has joined an...

In August 2004, ManiaTV went live from a 15,000 square foot warehouse in denver with a roster of green "cyberjockeys" or CJs. They were recruited mostly through craigslist and hired more on...

Interactive Television (ITV) is an area of technology I try to occasionally cover here. ITV transforms the passive one way nature of television into a two-way, interactive medium. What is needed is an...

John Higgins at Broadcasting and Cable wrote a good article entitled Cable's Wake-Up Call. (Subscription needed). The article covers the happenings at the Cable & Telecommunications...

Earlier this year, Alcatel formed an alliance with Microsoft to offer an integrated hardware and software offering to telecommunications providers. Om Malik wrote an interesting post that questions...

Video on demand and IPTV are often talked about in the context of accessing television shows that have already aired on TV. Kind of like a super DVR whereby the viewer never had to record the show in...

I have never been one to praise America On Line. In fact, I wear my lack of an AOL email address and never having signed up for their subscription service as a badge of honor. But, I am positive on......

Verizon Communications Inc. announced last week that its capital-expenditure budget will rise by 15% over last year's $13.3 billon as it gears up for video rollouts over its FiOS TV architecture...