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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.

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.

Broadband Gets Its Citizenship

By Stewart Schley – Behind the pop-culture embrace of Citizen’s Band (CB) Radio during the 1970s was a concept of miniaturization: Enthusiasts were enthralled over the ability to transform radio broadcasting from a medium for the masses to a smaller field of play where individualism was the rule and where relatively few individuals might be listening at any time.