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.
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By Stewart Schley — Larry Wolcott’s perfect day goes like this: Summer morning. Brilliant Colorado sky. Birds chirping. And Wolcott in a trench, splicing cable. “That,” he says, “is what I love.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Midco’s CTO, Jonathan Pederson, is leading the Sioux Falls-based company into the technology big leagues with a network-wide DOCSIS 3.1 implementation, an eye toward IoT and a focus on cultivating innovation from within. Here’s how he sees a shifting technology landscape — and Midco’s role in it.
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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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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.
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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.
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