(Excerpted from July 27 Broadcastingcable.com) Movie download service CinemaNow has reached a deal to distribute programming from HDNet, marking the first time HD content has been available for legal...

Motorola's stock has been trending up nicely for the last two months mostly on the strength of its cellular phone strength. However, the company has good news from its set top box unit, too....

Oregon based, IPTV technology provider, Tut Systems, has raised $14.9 million via the sale of common stock and warrants to institutional investors. "This financing provides Tut Systems with a...

Amy Friedlander is the Senior Vice President of Programming at SBC having been appointed in March. Her background has many years experience in new media and IP, video-on-demand, broadband content and...

This last week we heard that Gerald Thomas, a C.A. Swanson & Sons executive, died. He was credited with inventing the TV Dinner and changing America's eating habits ever since. Now, the WSJ...

Rebecca Lieb has some good comments that are pertinent to television content making its way onto web sites. As recently as five years ago, media companies safely considered their Web sites mere brand...

Seachange may be beating C-COR in VOD server market share but C-COR has the courts going for them. C-COR, the company which acquired nCUBE last December, has been handed a victory in a...

Most people know that Nielsen Media Research measures television audiences. Nielsen says that it has decided to prompt audience panel members who are using its new Active/Passive Meters every 42...

All Access Technologies is a broadband provider that operates private Fiber-to-the-Home(FTTH) networks in Dallas, Las Vegas, and southern Florida. Presently, they deliver VOIP, high-speed data,...

It is being reported that Time Warner Cable has "quietly embarked on a trial in the San Diego area" that delivers 75 channels - all of Time Warner's expanded basic tier -- via IP to the...

Verizon took another step forward for its Verizon FiOS TV video offering. Last week it signed a programming deal with Turner Broadcasting System. The deal covers carriage of TBS, Turner Network...

The recent Live 8 concerts reminds us why it is important to dig a little at the television audience numbers. Across the Internet and in some publications, the perception is that the audience watching...

Cartoons and the sentence "Vortex On Demand demonstrates the synergy of our vertically integrated company, looping in our content division and the branding and packaging expertise ..."...

Telco's are taking their legal battle to congress now. Congress may be too little too late for telephone companies battling with cable. "In the past two weeks, lawmakers have announced plans...

Maybe its just my simple brain, but I have never understood how a market economy and authoritarian governance can co-exist. But that is what we are told is happening in China. Nevertheless, the...

Forgent Networks is suing cable companies and satellite TV providers. The list includes Comcast, Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, CableOne, EchoStar and DirecTV. Forgent...

The inspiration for the above picture comes from my post about Les Moonves and VOD. I recalled that while reading Charlene Li's blog today, specifically her entry entitled Google Video potentially...

The ATIS, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, launched the IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF). The ATIS is based in Washington, DC more than 350 communications companies...

The folks at the MIT Advertising Lab point us to where television, cell phones, and french chic may be headed. They write: "France Telecom's wireless unit, Orange SA, will soon roll out a new...

We recently witnessed DreamWorks Animation and Pixar Animation Studios having to adjust their earnings estimates when Shrek 2 and The Incredibles sold fewer DVDs than the companies had predicted....