LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 29, 2008 : A gander at the good, bad, and ugly for the largest cable MSO in the land
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 29, 2008 : A new CableLabs spec aims to unify the architectures of Time Warner Cable and Comcast, lay the groundwork for truly 'universal' edge QAMs, and possibly quicken the adoption of switched digital video
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 23, 2008 : CEA charged that the MSO's proposed downloadable conditional access system is proprietary and would end reliance on CableCARDs
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 23, 2008 : 1:10 PM -- Harmonic exec says decisions about people and products tied to Scopus should be flushed out by the '09 NAB confab
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 23, 2008 : Despite some product overlaps, Harmonic believes the deal is largely complementary and will give it a big leg up internationally and a range of 'emerging markets' UPDATED 1:20 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) December 22, 2008 : A trio with recent ties to Comcast and Broadbus has launched Genovation Capital, a firm that aims to invest in a wide range of startups focused on media, communications, and the Internet
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (6) December 19, 2008 : Employees at VoD and switched digital division units get the axe as part of a broader layoff that will affect 3,000 employees through the Q1 2009
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 19, 2008 : 11:35 AM -- With the DTV transition just two months away, roughly three fourths of homes that rely on rabbit ears have requested box coupons
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) December 18, 2008 : Pali's Richard Greenfield cuts MSO's stock to 'neutral' as concerns grow that bankruptcy may be in the future for the nation's fourth-largest cable operator
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 18, 2008 : 12:45 PM -- Given its track record with a direct-to-MSO strategy, this could offer a complementary path of less resistance
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) December 18, 2008 : In addition to targeting the US cable market with optical and wireless gear, there's increasing evidence that Huawei's possible points of entry will involve lower-end digital set-top boxes
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) December 17, 2008 : There’s a new carrier-class Docsis 3.0-qualified cable modem termination system in the house – so it’s only appropriate that it’s coming way of a company called Casa Systems
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 17, 2008 : MSO gets static over its request for a set-top waiver extention that, Cablevision claims, is required for the operator to develop and deploy a 'downloadable' conditional access system
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 16, 2008 : To help avoid confusion with the broadcast TV transition, a gob of US MSOs volunteer to stop migrating analog channels to the digital domain during a fixed 'quiet period'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 16, 2008 : MSO is using simple one-way device from Evolution Broadband to reclaim analog spectrum and pave the path to more hi-def fare, VoD, and possibly Docsis 3.0
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 16, 2008 : 11:20 AM -- Private investment fund snaps up the bulk of the company that brought us the 'Ojo' videophone
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) December 16, 2008 : The company behind brands such as Sylvania and Emerson is entering the market with a dual-tuner DVR, but will hold off on developing tru2way TVs until it's sure there's strong consumer appetite for them
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 15, 2008 : ITV specialist looks to gain ground as MSOs deploy enhanced television applications on older Cisco set-tops and systems that are wired up for the more advanced tru2way platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 12, 2008 : MSO, buried in more than $20 billion in debt, has tapped its long-standing financial advisor to help the company improve its balance sheet
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 11, 2008 : TiVo recognized about $10.9 million in 'technology revenues' from Comcast during the first nine months of the DVR pioneer's fiscal year, notes its 10-Q, which also reveals how many employees TiVo laid off
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 11, 2008 : With launches in Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, and Fort Wayne, Ind., MSO hits goal of wiring up 20 percent of its footprint for Docsis 3.0 by year's end
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 10, 2008 : Company chief confirms MSO will unveil Wideband tier next week, dubbing it the 'Ferrari in the fleet,' and envisioning a day when Virgin Media flirts with a 200 Mbit/s offering
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 10, 2008 : 11:30 AM -- House committee staff report says Kevin Martin manipulated or supressed cable data
News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 9, 2008 : AT&T's chief says U-verse will pass the 1M mark next week as the operator primes the service for a spate of video-related enhancements
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 9, 2008 : 3:25 PM -- Satco still bullish on '09 prospects, but halts hiring and non-critical capex projects
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 9, 2008 : Heads up, Verizon – Cablevision COO says MSO has upgraded its network for Docsis 3.0, and expects to deploy faster Internet services 'within months'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) December 8, 2008 : Just as it did with voice and Internet service, Comcast is targeting reliability for video by deploying a swarm of probes to watch network performance
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 8, 2008 : 3:40 PM -- MSO hopes to goose service bundles with new packages that tie in hi-def services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 8, 2008 : Time Warner Cable chief Glenn Britt confirms that the MSO has continued to see revenue-generating units growth slow in the fourth quarter, noting that capex for 2009 will be lower than 2008's
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 5, 2008 : 5:05 PM -- Save for surging competition, slower sub growth, and reduced ARPU and capex, '09 will be great for Comcast and TWC, analyst predicts
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) December 5, 2008 : Sanford Bernstein's Craig Moffett is highly skeptical about cable's prospects with Clearwire, but is much more bullish about Cablevision's WiFi strategy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) December 4, 2008 : MSOs weigh which is best to funnel voice, video, and data services to business subs, saying the decision depends on the size of the customer and the condition of the cable plant
News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) December 4, 2008 : Citing 'economic pessures' and 'a changing business mix,' a 4 percent staff cut is in the works as the carrier tries to bring 2009 expenditures below 2008 levels
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 3, 2008 : Cox and Bresnan aren't similar in sheer size, but both MSOs share a common goal: to snare lucrative business service market share from the telcos
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 2, 2008 : Cablevision asks the FCC for more time to develop and deploy a new 'open' dowloadable conditional access system from NDS that works on beta set-tops already on the way from Samsung and LG
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 2, 2008 : Cable pressure group throws its support behind Cable ONE's request to deploy one-way devices that can output hi-def video signals, while the Consumer Electronics Association, as expected, is fighting it
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 2, 2008 : 8:50 AM -- Cable's big, advanced ad venture has a Website... but it's clearly a work in progress
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 29, 2008 : A gander at the good, bad, and ugly for the largest cable MSO in the land
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 29, 2008 : A new CableLabs spec aims to unify the architectures of Time Warner Cable and Comcast, lay the groundwork for truly 'universal' edge QAMs, and possibly quicken the adoption of switched digital video
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 23, 2008 : CEA charged that the MSO's proposed downloadable conditional access system is proprietary and would end reliance on CableCARDs
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 23, 2008 : 1:10 PM -- Harmonic exec says decisions about people and products tied to Scopus should be flushed out by the '09 NAB confab
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 23, 2008 : Despite some product overlaps, Harmonic believes the deal is largely complementary and will give it a big leg up internationally and a range of 'emerging markets' UPDATED 1:20 PM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) December 22, 2008 : A trio with recent ties to Comcast and Broadbus has launched Genovation Capital, a firm that aims to invest in a wide range of startups focused on media, communications, and the Internet
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (6) December 19, 2008 : Employees at VoD and switched digital division units get the axe as part of a broader layoff that will affect 3,000 employees through the Q1 2009
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 19, 2008 : 11:35 AM -- With the DTV transition just two months away, roughly three fourths of homes that rely on rabbit ears have requested box coupons
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) December 18, 2008 : Pali's Richard Greenfield cuts MSO's stock to 'neutral' as concerns grow that bankruptcy may be in the future for the nation's fourth-largest cable operator
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 18, 2008 : 12:45 PM -- Given its track record with a direct-to-MSO strategy, this could offer a complementary path of less resistance
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) December 18, 2008 : In addition to targeting the US cable market with optical and wireless gear, there's increasing evidence that Huawei's possible points of entry will involve lower-end digital set-top boxes
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) December 17, 2008 : There’s a new carrier-class Docsis 3.0-qualified cable modem termination system in the house – so it’s only appropriate that it’s coming way of a company called Casa Systems
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 17, 2008 : MSO gets static over its request for a set-top waiver extention that, Cablevision claims, is required for the operator to develop and deploy a 'downloadable' conditional access system
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 16, 2008 : To help avoid confusion with the broadcast TV transition, a gob of US MSOs volunteer to stop migrating analog channels to the digital domain during a fixed 'quiet period'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 16, 2008 : MSO is using simple one-way device from Evolution Broadband to reclaim analog spectrum and pave the path to more hi-def fare, VoD, and possibly Docsis 3.0
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 16, 2008 : 11:20 AM -- Private investment fund snaps up the bulk of the company that brought us the 'Ojo' videophone
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) December 16, 2008 : The company behind brands such as Sylvania and Emerson is entering the market with a dual-tuner DVR, but will hold off on developing tru2way TVs until it's sure there's strong consumer appetite for them
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 15, 2008 : ITV specialist looks to gain ground as MSOs deploy enhanced television applications on older Cisco set-tops and systems that are wired up for the more advanced tru2way platform
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 12, 2008 : MSO, buried in more than $20 billion in debt, has tapped its long-standing financial advisor to help the company improve its balance sheet
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 11, 2008 : TiVo recognized about $10.9 million in 'technology revenues' from Comcast during the first nine months of the DVR pioneer's fiscal year, notes its 10-Q, which also reveals how many employees TiVo laid off
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 11, 2008 : With launches in Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, and Fort Wayne, Ind., MSO hits goal of wiring up 20 percent of its footprint for Docsis 3.0 by year's end
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 10, 2008 : Company chief confirms MSO will unveil Wideband tier next week, dubbing it the 'Ferrari in the fleet,' and envisioning a day when Virgin Media flirts with a 200 Mbit/s offering
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 10, 2008 : 11:30 AM -- House committee staff report says Kevin Martin manipulated or supressed cable data
News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 9, 2008 : AT&T's chief says U-verse will pass the 1M mark next week as the operator primes the service for a spate of video-related enhancements
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 9, 2008 : 3:25 PM -- Satco still bullish on '09 prospects, but halts hiring and non-critical capex projects
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 9, 2008 : Heads up, Verizon – Cablevision COO says MSO has upgraded its network for Docsis 3.0, and expects to deploy faster Internet services 'within months'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) December 8, 2008 : Just as it did with voice and Internet service, Comcast is targeting reliability for video by deploying a swarm of probes to watch network performance
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 8, 2008 : 3:40 PM -- MSO hopes to goose service bundles with new packages that tie in hi-def services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 8, 2008 : Time Warner Cable chief Glenn Britt confirms that the MSO has continued to see revenue-generating units growth slow in the fourth quarter, noting that capex for 2009 will be lower than 2008's
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 5, 2008 : 5:05 PM -- Save for surging competition, slower sub growth, and reduced ARPU and capex, '09 will be great for Comcast and TWC, analyst predicts
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) December 5, 2008 : Sanford Bernstein's Craig Moffett is highly skeptical about cable's prospects with Clearwire, but is much more bullish about Cablevision's WiFi strategy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) December 4, 2008 : MSOs weigh which is best to funnel voice, video, and data services to business subs, saying the decision depends on the size of the customer and the condition of the cable plant
News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) December 4, 2008 : Citing 'economic pessures' and 'a changing business mix,' a 4 percent staff cut is in the works as the carrier tries to bring 2009 expenditures below 2008 levels
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 3, 2008 : Cox and Bresnan aren't similar in sheer size, but both MSOs share a common goal: to snare lucrative business service market share from the telcos
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 2, 2008 : Cablevision asks the FCC for more time to develop and deploy a new 'open' dowloadable conditional access system from NDS that works on beta set-tops already on the way from Samsung and LG
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 2, 2008 : Cable pressure group throws its support behind Cable ONE's request to deploy one-way devices that can output hi-def video signals, while the Consumer Electronics Association, as expected, is fighting it
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment December 2, 2008 : 8:50 AM -- Cable's big, advanced ad venture has a Website... but it's clearly a work in progress
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