The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) March 31, 2010 : 1:25 PM Highlands Ranch, Colo., gets dubious honor of having one of the top five worst pitches to get Google's 1-Gig
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 31, 2010 : Competitive cabler WideOpenWest has 'converted' 20% of its gear for Docsis 3.0, but is mum on what speeds will grace its wideband products
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 30, 2010 : 1:30 PM LogiWays tries its hand at obtaining the FCC's blessing on cheap channel-zappers
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 30, 2010 : 8:20 AM Competitive MSO targets Auburn, Ala., for its 'fill-in' and 'edge-out' growth strategy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 30, 2010 : MSO takes the wraps off the fastest downstream D3 tier in the US, targeting the $107 per month service to three Texas markets where it tangles with AT&T U-verse UPDATED 10:25 AM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 29, 2010 : DirecTV is first to sign up for ESPN 3D, a part-time network that will complement a trio of 3DTV channels the satco will introduce this June
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) March 29, 2010 : Shaw's 1-Gig trials in Vancouver and Calgary will lay the foundation for an FTTH architecture the MSO intends to someday use in greenfield situations
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 26, 2010 : MSO 'did not issue' possible leaked announcement that it is launching a 107-Meg Docsis 3.0 tier in Texas on Monday
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) March 26, 2010 : Judge extends stay on Dish's injunction to April 30, putting the satellite player a step closer to a DVR cull or more sanctions
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 25, 2010 : 4:30 PM MSO enters the mobile game by offering apps for BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and iPod Touch devices
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 25, 2010 : MSO's two-pronged WiFi play hooks into a budding homegrown network and to Cablevision's much larger WiFi canopy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 25, 2010 : Telco seeks stimulus funds to extend download speeds up to 40 Mbit/s to 500,000 broadband-starved homes, schools, and businesses
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) March 24, 2010 : Cablevision enters the 3DTV era tonight, while rival Verizon prepares to offer 3D content via FioS TV by the 2010 holiday buying season
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 24, 2010 : Cox says some 'friendly' subs are being billed for mobile services in Nebraska as MSO closes in on broader wireless launches in three markets
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 24, 2010 : 3:50 PM Widevine and Verimatrix settle their video security patent spat, but a king's ransom wasn't paid
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 23, 2010 : A batch of cable friends, outside agencies, and even some rivals hope to secure $52 million to help drive broadband adoption in low-income housing areas
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (7) March 23, 2010 : Budding 'Moveez' service aims to give MSOs and their customers access to VoD libraries filled with more than 100,000 titles
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : Jamie Howard will become a board member after video tech startup finds a replacement and expands into the Internet and mobile video markets
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : The Comcast Media Center conducted a bakeoff this week to evaluate video gear that can pack four MPEG-2 streams into one 6MHz channel
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : $30 million earmarked for cable VoD tilt, TiVo has the gun to Dish's head, and early adopters love their 3DTV
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : Coship becomes the second China-based supplier to win FCC approval for simple channel-zappers that are becoming key to cable's analog reclamation
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 18, 2010 : Ceton's taking pre-orders for the InfiniTV4 tuner for Windows Media Center PCs, with shipments slated to begin May 31
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 17, 2010 : FCC clears the way for MSO's buy of the Chicago-based CLEC, but Cimco Detroit-area customers may need to seek a new service provider
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 17, 2010 : 12:15 PM The NCTA doesn't hate on it, while DirecTV thinks the approach would hinder, not hasten, set-top innovation
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) March 16, 2010 : FCC aims to spark a competitive set-top market by requiring all TV service operators to start using a dumbed-down bridging device by 2013
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 16, 2010 : MSO agrees to pay FCC $25,000 and to conform to several 'compliance measures' to settle a spat tied to switched digital video rollouts
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) March 15, 2010 : 5:10 PM FCC's network-neutral 'gateway' plan is an approach that's fabulous or flawed, depending on the party
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 15, 2010 : FCC's initial broadband plan goals have some Google-ness to them, calling for 'affordable' speeds of 1-Gbit/s or more for schools, hospitals, and military installations
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) March 15, 2010 : Mediacom, like Time Warner Cable, plans to bring its VoIP services in-house starting later this year
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 12, 2010 : Cable's R&D arm has quietly released the technical baseline for a new tru2way-based 'thin chassis' box that has retail ambitions
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) March 12, 2010 : Company promotes Yvette Kanouff to president, but will cut up to 4% of its staff as it streamlines and puts its software biz under one roof
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 11, 2010 : The FCC and DoJ promise rigorous review of Comcast-NBCU deal, ops want federal help with TV retrans, and the FCC readies its broadband plan
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) March 11, 2010 : Analyst estimates that the MSO's decision could cost Sprint as much as $250 million annually over the next four years
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 11, 2010 : Motorola's Docsis 3.0 modems will soon have some company on retail shelves after Zoom's model gets blessed by CableLabs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 10, 2010 : Liberty Global's Timothy Burke says wideband network build-outs are averaging $20 per home passed, and modem costs keep dropping
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 10, 2010 : 12:20 PM Humble Highlands Ranch, Colo., is vying for the affections of Google and its speedy fiber project
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 10, 2010 : Germany's largest cable operator could raise nearly $1 billion in an initial public offering slotted for March 22
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 9, 2010 : MSO tells FCC it will need to deploy 'at least' 200,000 HD-capable DTAs to get unit prices in the desired $50 range
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 8, 2010 : CEO insists big exec shakeup makes vendor leaner and meaner, while analyst says CFO switchout could end speculation that BigBand is seeking a buyer
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 5, 2010 : Canoe Ventures members are doing some 'pipe cleaning' to ensure that EBIF-powered ads can flow up and down the network unhindered
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 5, 2010 : 3:00 PM Bernstein's Craig Moffett says the latest turn in the TiVo-Dish spat could cause the satco to disable up to 8M DVRs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 4, 2010 : The COO and SVP of global sales resign, and the company separates the roles of CEO and chairman of the board
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 4, 2010 : Boxee's chief smack talker becomes the bajillionth person to declare that a technology in nearly every American living room is 'dead'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 3, 2010 : Now clear of bankruptcy, MSO posts a solid Q4 while growing its wideband footprint
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 3, 2010 : 7:05 AM New video player from Comcast unit allows networks to embed video on Facebook and Twitter while preserving ads and distribution rules
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) March 2, 2010 : TiVo's Webbed-up 'Premiere' line is going retail, but RCN and Virgin Media are likely the first MSOs to get a taste of the new platform
LRTV Interviews - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 2, 2010 : Jorge Salinger, VP of Access Architecture at Comcast, talks about how to move the industry toward building a consolidated access device that allows for a higher density of QAMs per RF port – or a really fat bandwidth pipe, if you will
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 2, 2010 : Arris, Cisco, and Motorola all expect to build and compete for the Converged Multiservice Access Platform business
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 1, 2010 : One vendor that sells gear for RF over Glass and 'Fiber Deep' architectures says the economic edge goes to Fiber Deep in most scenarios
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 1, 2010 : Comcast gains absolute control of GuideWorks while obtaining 'expanded license' for Rovi's mobile and online navigation technology
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 1, 2010 : 11:35 AM Arris puts new three-tuner HD-DVR up for sale the day before TiVo's big product announcement in New York
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (5) March 31, 2010 : 1:25 PM Highlands Ranch, Colo., gets dubious honor of having one of the top five worst pitches to get Google's 1-Gig
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 31, 2010 : Competitive cabler WideOpenWest has 'converted' 20% of its gear for Docsis 3.0, but is mum on what speeds will grace its wideband products
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 30, 2010 : 1:30 PM LogiWays tries its hand at obtaining the FCC's blessing on cheap channel-zappers
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 30, 2010 : 8:20 AM Competitive MSO targets Auburn, Ala., for its 'fill-in' and 'edge-out' growth strategy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 30, 2010 : MSO takes the wraps off the fastest downstream D3 tier in the US, targeting the $107 per month service to three Texas markets where it tangles with AT&T U-verse UPDATED 10:25 AM
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 29, 2010 : DirecTV is first to sign up for ESPN 3D, a part-time network that will complement a trio of 3DTV channels the satco will introduce this June
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) March 29, 2010 : Shaw's 1-Gig trials in Vancouver and Calgary will lay the foundation for an FTTH architecture the MSO intends to someday use in greenfield situations
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 26, 2010 : MSO 'did not issue' possible leaked announcement that it is launching a 107-Meg Docsis 3.0 tier in Texas on Monday
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) March 26, 2010 : Judge extends stay on Dish's injunction to April 30, putting the satellite player a step closer to a DVR cull or more sanctions
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 25, 2010 : 4:30 PM MSO enters the mobile game by offering apps for BlackBerry smartphones, Apple iPhones, and iPod Touch devices
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 25, 2010 : MSO's two-pronged WiFi play hooks into a budding homegrown network and to Cablevision's much larger WiFi canopy
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 25, 2010 : Telco seeks stimulus funds to extend download speeds up to 40 Mbit/s to 500,000 broadband-starved homes, schools, and businesses
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) March 24, 2010 : Cablevision enters the 3DTV era tonight, while rival Verizon prepares to offer 3D content via FioS TV by the 2010 holiday buying season
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 24, 2010 : Cox says some 'friendly' subs are being billed for mobile services in Nebraska as MSO closes in on broader wireless launches in three markets
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 24, 2010 : 3:50 PM Widevine and Verimatrix settle their video security patent spat, but a king's ransom wasn't paid
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 23, 2010 : A batch of cable friends, outside agencies, and even some rivals hope to secure $52 million to help drive broadband adoption in low-income housing areas
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (7) March 23, 2010 : Budding 'Moveez' service aims to give MSOs and their customers access to VoD libraries filled with more than 100,000 titles
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : Jamie Howard will become a board member after video tech startup finds a replacement and expands into the Internet and mobile video markets
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : The Comcast Media Center conducted a bakeoff this week to evaluate video gear that can pack four MPEG-2 streams into one 6MHz channel
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : $30 million earmarked for cable VoD tilt, TiVo has the gun to Dish's head, and early adopters love their 3DTV
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 19, 2010 : Coship becomes the second China-based supplier to win FCC approval for simple channel-zappers that are becoming key to cable's analog reclamation
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 18, 2010 : Ceton's taking pre-orders for the InfiniTV4 tuner for Windows Media Center PCs, with shipments slated to begin May 31
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 17, 2010 : FCC clears the way for MSO's buy of the Chicago-based CLEC, but Cimco Detroit-area customers may need to seek a new service provider
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 17, 2010 : 12:15 PM The NCTA doesn't hate on it, while DirecTV thinks the approach would hinder, not hasten, set-top innovation
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) March 16, 2010 : FCC aims to spark a competitive set-top market by requiring all TV service operators to start using a dumbed-down bridging device by 2013
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 16, 2010 : MSO agrees to pay FCC $25,000 and to conform to several 'compliance measures' to settle a spat tied to switched digital video rollouts
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) March 15, 2010 : 5:10 PM FCC's network-neutral 'gateway' plan is an approach that's fabulous or flawed, depending on the party
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 15, 2010 : FCC's initial broadband plan goals have some Google-ness to them, calling for 'affordable' speeds of 1-Gbit/s or more for schools, hospitals, and military installations
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) March 15, 2010 : Mediacom, like Time Warner Cable, plans to bring its VoIP services in-house starting later this year
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 12, 2010 : Cable's R&D arm has quietly released the technical baseline for a new tru2way-based 'thin chassis' box that has retail ambitions
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) March 12, 2010 : Company promotes Yvette Kanouff to president, but will cut up to 4% of its staff as it streamlines and puts its software biz under one roof
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 11, 2010 : The FCC and DoJ promise rigorous review of Comcast-NBCU deal, ops want federal help with TV retrans, and the FCC readies its broadband plan
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (4) March 11, 2010 : Analyst estimates that the MSO's decision could cost Sprint as much as $250 million annually over the next four years
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 11, 2010 : Motorola's Docsis 3.0 modems will soon have some company on retail shelves after Zoom's model gets blessed by CableLabs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 10, 2010 : Liberty Global's Timothy Burke says wideband network build-outs are averaging $20 per home passed, and modem costs keep dropping
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 10, 2010 : 12:20 PM Humble Highlands Ranch, Colo., is vying for the affections of Google and its speedy fiber project
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 10, 2010 : Germany's largest cable operator could raise nearly $1 billion in an initial public offering slotted for March 22
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 9, 2010 : MSO tells FCC it will need to deploy 'at least' 200,000 HD-capable DTAs to get unit prices in the desired $50 range
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 8, 2010 : CEO insists big exec shakeup makes vendor leaner and meaner, while analyst says CFO switchout could end speculation that BigBand is seeking a buyer
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 5, 2010 : Canoe Ventures members are doing some 'pipe cleaning' to ensure that EBIF-powered ads can flow up and down the network unhindered
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 5, 2010 : 3:00 PM Bernstein's Craig Moffett says the latest turn in the TiVo-Dish spat could cause the satco to disable up to 8M DVRs
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 4, 2010 : The COO and SVP of global sales resign, and the company separates the roles of CEO and chairman of the board
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 4, 2010 : Boxee's chief smack talker becomes the bajillionth person to declare that a technology in nearly every American living room is 'dead'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 3, 2010 : Now clear of bankruptcy, MSO posts a solid Q4 while growing its wideband footprint
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 3, 2010 : 7:05 AM New video player from Comcast unit allows networks to embed video on Facebook and Twitter while preserving ads and distribution rules
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (2) March 2, 2010 : TiVo's Webbed-up 'Premiere' line is going retail, but RCN and Virgin Media are likely the first MSOs to get a taste of the new platform
LRTV Interviews - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 2, 2010 : Jorge Salinger, VP of Access Architecture at Comcast, talks about how to move the industry toward building a consolidated access device that allows for a higher density of QAMs per RF port – or a really fat bandwidth pipe, if you will
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 2, 2010 : Arris, Cisco, and Motorola all expect to build and compete for the Converged Multiservice Access Platform business
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 1, 2010 : One vendor that sells gear for RF over Glass and 'Fiber Deep' architectures says the economic edge goes to Fiber Deep in most scenarios
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 1, 2010 : Comcast gains absolute control of GuideWorks while obtaining 'expanded license' for Rovi's mobile and online navigation technology
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment March 1, 2010 : 11:35 AM Arris puts new three-tuner HD-DVR up for sale the day before TiVo's big product announcement in New York
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