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Lord of the Ringtones
Everyone’s focusing right now on whether AT&T’s proposed merger with T-Mobile will give it too much power in wireless. But that’s only part of the worry. AT&T also wants to sell you a so-called “triple play” of cable, telephone and … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Mobile, Television, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged AT&T, broadband, cable, Comcast, Dept. of Justice, FCC, FIOS, Internet, IPTV, Merger, Mobile, NBC Universal, quad play, satellite, Sprint, Strategy Analytics, T-Mobile, telephone, Time Warner Cable, triple play, TV, U-Verse, Verizon
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TV in 2020: Best Guesses
So where will television be in 2020? I posed the question last week at a panel I led during NAB with execs from DreamWorks, Sony Electronics, Starz, Nielsen and Technicolor. Of course, nobody really knows what TV will look like in two … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, iHollywood Forum, Internet, Media, Video
Tagged 3D, broadcast, cable, f, Google, HD, High-Definition, iphone-5, iphone5, iphone5sprint, NAB, Nielsen, OTT, Sony, Starz, Technicolor, Television, ticketsnow, TV, UI
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Fear, Loathing and Comcast
For all the talk about “synergy” and “vertical integration” in Comcast’s $13.75 billion cash and assets deal for NBC Universal, I think something far more fundamental is at play: fear. Continue reading
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Tagged cable, Comcast, gerard-kunkel-comcast, gerard-kunkel-leave-comcast, Media, NBC Universal, TV
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Comcast + Time Warner Cable = Bad Idea
The analyst’s assumption is that regulators would cast a blind eye to this oligopoly because new TV entrants like AT&T, Verizon, Dish Network and DirecTV redraw the traditional definition of what constitutes the pay TV market. But he’s conveniently forgetting these giants’ move into telephones, Internet and wireless, and their growing ability to dictate the terms of content distribution. Continue reading
Boxee…Just What Your Cable Box Ordered
Nothing irks me more than to see a Time Warner pitchman come on my TV to talk about all the money they’re “saving” me over satellite. Please. I’m currently spending more than $150 a month on my cable service, and … Continue reading
Sprint, Clearwire: Winners are Google and Cable Operators
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire’s reported $12 billion joint venture to roll out ultra-fast wireless Internet access would be a significant boost to the cellular aspirations of Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Google. The Wall Street Journal said the two companies have raised … Continue reading
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Tagged activate-sprint-phone-on-nextech-wireless, cable, can-i-use-a-sprint-phone-on-nextech-wireless, Clearwire, Comcast, Google, how-to-activate-nextech-phone, nex-tech-and-sprint, nextech-through-sprint, Sprint, Time Warner Cable, total-time-warner-cable-sales-2010, what-was-the-total-of-sales-for-internet-for-verizon-time-warner-cable-clearwire-at, wireless
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Big Brother in the Living Room?
Talk about a tempest in a teapot. A Comcast executive’s revelation at Digital Living Room last week that the cable company is testing cameras in its DVRs in the living room set off a storm of angry blogs. It began … Continue reading
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Tagged any-cable-company-that-uses-webcams-to-watch-elderly-parents, cable, Comcast, comcast-cable-monitor-living-room, comcast-cams-for-watching-elderly, comcast-digital-living-room, Digital Living Room, DVR, privacy, room-monitor-elderly, Television, TV, Video, video-and-the-digital-living-room, video-living-room, webcams-to-monitor-the-elderly
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Speaking of Sprint…
Walt’s story in the Wall Street Journal (see my blog earlier today) is right across from one about Sprint’s CEO searching for a way out of its woes caused by annual subscribers canceling. Bad service aside (and I can personally … Continue reading