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Staying Put

By Stewart Schley — As if cord-cutting, fiber-to-the-home and intensifying 5G competition weren’t enough, the U.S. cable industry is facing another headwind as 2020 rolls out: Fewer people are moving.

Sensing An Opportunity

By Stewart Schley — It’s 5:45 p.m. when the environmental sensor affixed near your dad’s stove detects a rise in temperature and tells a network-connected web portal what it knows. The reaction is a big yawn. So what?

Shake It Off

By Stewart Schley — An FCC-embraced protocol will put robocallers back in their place. Here’s how cable’s helping. Anyone remotely familiar with James Bond knows how Agent 007 likes his martinis. The preference for a “shaken, not stirred” rendition of the cocktail classic reflects a taste for the good life.

Trojan Television

By By Stewart Schley — Their conclusion was two-fold. First, they recounted how there had never been so much choice available to everyday consumers. Grocery store shelves were lined with dozens of variations of jams, and that was just in the raspberry section.

All Boxed Up

By Stewart Schley — In November of last year, word leaked about an interesting initiative that’s in the works at Comcast: a new set-top box. But not just any set-top box. This one, according to a CNBC report, is a sibling to Comcast’s X1.

Cause for Pause

By Stewart Schley — Turns out that was the peak year for pay-TV in the U.S. Leichtman Research Group points out 87 percent of U.S. homes were connected to a cable or satellite TV system.

The Subtitle Goes to School

By Stewart Schley — Artificial intelligence has a chance to succeed where previous captioning-automation platforms have struggled because it creates output that more closely tracks the intention and purpose of human speech.

Can Cable Be Cool Again?

By Stewart Schley — The Turner Broadcasting System founder was displaying his industry bona fides in response to a competitive affront from a new network called the Satellite Newschannel, which for a brief time challenged Turner’s CNN and its offshoot, Headline News.

Cable’s 40-year Wait

By Stewart Schley — During the 1980s, as new cable channels were beginning to percolate, Malone believed the balance of power was on cable’s side; that programmers, hungry to reach American households, should be willing to pay for the right to ride the pipe.

Accelerate This!

By Stewart Schley – With a New Twist On Investing, CableLabs Hopes to Narrow the Innovation-to-Success Gap with UpRamp. For lots of entrepreneurs, the journey from bright idea to marketplace hit requires a stopover at the edge of a cliff.

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