LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 31, 2008 : MSO is applying capital toward a three-year project that will include a rollout of Docsis 3.0 and a WiFi canopy that will cover Cablevision's footprint in New York and Connecticut
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 30, 2008 : 3:25 PM -- So says an MSO that's urging the FCC to extend 'waivers' to future digital terminal adapters (DTAs) that will also support hi-def...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 30, 2008 : Advanced service subscriber growth slowed in Q2, and Comcast lost more basic subs, but much of what it gained came right off the hide of its telco rivals
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 29, 2008 : Investors send stock down almost 19 percent Tuesday following conservative guidance for the second half of '08, but one analyst calls it 'borderline sand-bagging'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 29, 2008 : Upgrades from Comcast Media Center and Motorola will enable smaller MSOs to reclaim analog spectrum using inexpensive digital terminal adapters
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 29, 2008 : 2:45 PM -- AT&T says it prohibits mobile P2P apps. Comcast is about to get wrist-slapped for throttling P2P. Smell the irony
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 28, 2008 : 6:30 PM -- Live system demos and newly signed set-top and headend partners, but clash with the CEA persists...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (97) July 28, 2008 : Like a kitten taking on a helpless ball of yarn, the FCC boss has reportedly secured enough votes to do absolutely nothing to Comcast for its treatment of P2P traffic
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 28, 2008 : Pour a couple more shovelsful of sand on DCR+. LG and Funai are the latest consumer electronics giants to sign up for that 'binding' tru2way MOU
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 25, 2008 : Mark Cuban says cable needs to open up and take on an 'Internet mindset' with tru2way, but others counter that there's already a significant groundswell of support from app developers
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 25, 2008 : Get ready to squint. We've got some drugstore camera pics from our latest cable-licious Light Reading Live! event
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 24, 2008 : Says cable's attempt at an 'open,' uniform digital platform has potential, but still looks and smells a lot like a 'walled garden'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 24, 2008 : Small MSO signs on to conduct a pilot of a centralized interactive television platform helmed by Comcast and Motorola that targets smaller operators
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 24, 2008 : Taking fiber all the way to the premises was deemed too expensive, so Canadian cable MSO opts for a new architecture that shaves down node sizes and boosts capacity for 'narrowcast' services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 23, 2008 : Chipmaker appears to be conceeding the upcoming Docsis 3.0 modem market to TI until MSO demand kicks up a notch next year. Besides, Broadcom says demand for 2.0 remains strong
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 23, 2008 : Regulatory filing indicates that a complementary metered Internet model is still on the table at Comcast
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 22, 2008 : In the wake of its purchase of Andrew Corp., US-based company is proposing moves in Europe and Australia that could cut 85 jobs and move more than 600 others
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 22, 2008 : Consumers considering Time Warner Cable's 'Price Lock Guarantee' in Beaumont had best check the fine print...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) July 21, 2008 : With NYC FiOS installations ready to begin as early as Aug. 1, analysts take differing views on whether Time Warner Cable – which has no FiOS-killer offering – should worry
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 18, 2008 : Cable consortium pitching a 'downloadable' conditional access system is getting static from the Consumer Electronics Association, which argues cable ops must obtain a special waiver for BBT's approach
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 18, 2008 : New qualified device will help some TiVo and digital TV owners access 'switched' channels, and early indications are that some cable operators will offer tuning adapters for free
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 17, 2008 : Analysts are mixed about whether the latest bells and whistles to grace TiVo's stand-alone DVRs, including access to YouTube fare, will translate into big subscriber gains
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 17, 2008 : Karin Gilford takes the Fancast reins, indicating that things aren't so great at Yahoo, but likewise that Comcast is getting serious about becoming a legitimate Internet video contender
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 16, 2008 : Purchase of facilities-based CLEC will give Cablevision's business services arm access to a 440 route-mile dark fiber network capable of connecting more than 70% of New Jersey
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (12) July 15, 2008 : After taking the 'leased' path early on, Cox is building its own speedy IP backbone, projecting to have a network with 800-Gig links polished off by the end of 2008
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 15, 2008 : Barring another 'launch anomaly,' Dish's latest bird is set to take flight Tuesday night
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 14, 2008 : Investors cheer deal that tacks on four years to CSG's relationship with the nation's largest MSO, but Comcast still has the option to consolidate subs to a single billing vendor
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : HDNet founder and president will help kick off conference with lively discussion on hi-def, Internet video, VOD, time-shifted TV, targeted advertising, and other advanced video apps and services
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : Instead, proposal from FCC Commissioner would make Comcast stop its present throttling practices in a 'reasonable time frame'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : Satco says it will cross the 100 hi-def channel finish line ahead of schedule, launch 'TurboHD' packages on Aug. 1
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : Report says FCC Chairman is circulating a proposal that would impose sanctions against the MSO for allegedly 'blocking' some P2P traffic, a charge the cable operator has long denied
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 10, 2008 : Cable's main pressure group says MSOs and programmers have run DTV edu-spots valued at nearly $94M – nearly half what's been earmarked for a consumer campaign
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 10, 2008 : The agency has issued a spate of waiver orders this week. And, no, Comcast isn't on the list, smartypants
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 10, 2008 : Competive cable MSO tells investors it will 'probably' roll out Docsis 3.0 by the end of 2009 as it seeks out ways to reuse spectrum reclaimed from its 'Analog Crush' project
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 9, 2008 : Agreement covers over-the-top VOIP quality of service issues, but will not give Vonage priority over other Internet traffic flowing over Comcast's broadband network
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 9, 2008 : Stock drops in after-hours trading after vendor blames expected second quarter shortfall on 'maturing demand' for cable voice modems, but expects rebound in H2 as Docsis 3.0 shipments ramp up
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 8, 2008 : The Mouse offers ABC for free to small MSOs where Disney owns and operates the stations, but cable pressure group counters that deal offers 'far too little relief for far too few operators'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 8, 2008 : Thanks to several 'catalysts' set to take shape later this year, the MSO offers investors an attractive opportunity well before it severs ties with the Time Warner Inc. mother ship, one analyst says
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 8, 2008 : New Zenith DTV converter might give 'low-power' television stations a reason to cheer
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 7, 2008 : Although Pace and Moto are also in the mix at Comcast, Thomson is the first vendor to announce a firm digital terminal adapter (DTA) purchase agreement with the operator
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 4, 2008 : Join us for a somewhat cable-centric jog down memory lane to see what this World Wide Web of ours looks like in relative days of yore...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 2, 2008 : Cisco and Motorola get the call for switched digital video pilots taking place in Minneapolis and St. Paul, expanding on SDV work the MSO already has underway in Denver and Cherry Hill, NJ
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) July 2, 2008 : DirecTV could be the 'big winner' when the Dish-AT&T partnership terminates at year's end, and could hurt Dish's ability to add subscribers heading into '09, analyst says
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (6) July 1, 2008 : Not content with a recent FCC order that prevents the telco from using certain 'win-back' tactics when phone subs jump to cable, Verizon is appealing its case in court
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 1, 2008 : Or maybe it's a bit of both, according to a new forecast that appears to hit and miss on a few important things...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) July 1, 2008 : The 3 GHz spectrum overlay specialist reveals in a 10-K filing Tuesday that it could be lights out if the company is unable to drum up additional capital in the next three months
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 31, 2008 : MSO is applying capital toward a three-year project that will include a rollout of Docsis 3.0 and a WiFi canopy that will cover Cablevision's footprint in New York and Connecticut
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 30, 2008 : 3:25 PM -- So says an MSO that's urging the FCC to extend 'waivers' to future digital terminal adapters (DTAs) that will also support hi-def...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 30, 2008 : Advanced service subscriber growth slowed in Q2, and Comcast lost more basic subs, but much of what it gained came right off the hide of its telco rivals
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 29, 2008 : Investors send stock down almost 19 percent Tuesday following conservative guidance for the second half of '08, but one analyst calls it 'borderline sand-bagging'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 29, 2008 : Upgrades from Comcast Media Center and Motorola will enable smaller MSOs to reclaim analog spectrum using inexpensive digital terminal adapters
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 29, 2008 : 2:45 PM -- AT&T says it prohibits mobile P2P apps. Comcast is about to get wrist-slapped for throttling P2P. Smell the irony
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 28, 2008 : 6:30 PM -- Live system demos and newly signed set-top and headend partners, but clash with the CEA persists...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (97) July 28, 2008 : Like a kitten taking on a helpless ball of yarn, the FCC boss has reportedly secured enough votes to do absolutely nothing to Comcast for its treatment of P2P traffic
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 28, 2008 : Pour a couple more shovelsful of sand on DCR+. LG and Funai are the latest consumer electronics giants to sign up for that 'binding' tru2way MOU
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 25, 2008 : Mark Cuban says cable needs to open up and take on an 'Internet mindset' with tru2way, but others counter that there's already a significant groundswell of support from app developers
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 25, 2008 : Get ready to squint. We've got some drugstore camera pics from our latest cable-licious Light Reading Live! event
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 24, 2008 : Says cable's attempt at an 'open,' uniform digital platform has potential, but still looks and smells a lot like a 'walled garden'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 24, 2008 : Small MSO signs on to conduct a pilot of a centralized interactive television platform helmed by Comcast and Motorola that targets smaller operators
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 24, 2008 : Taking fiber all the way to the premises was deemed too expensive, so Canadian cable MSO opts for a new architecture that shaves down node sizes and boosts capacity for 'narrowcast' services
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 23, 2008 : Chipmaker appears to be conceeding the upcoming Docsis 3.0 modem market to TI until MSO demand kicks up a notch next year. Besides, Broadcom says demand for 2.0 remains strong
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 23, 2008 : Regulatory filing indicates that a complementary metered Internet model is still on the table at Comcast
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 22, 2008 : In the wake of its purchase of Andrew Corp., US-based company is proposing moves in Europe and Australia that could cut 85 jobs and move more than 600 others
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 22, 2008 : Consumers considering Time Warner Cable's 'Price Lock Guarantee' in Beaumont had best check the fine print...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comment (1) July 21, 2008 : With NYC FiOS installations ready to begin as early as Aug. 1, analysts take differing views on whether Time Warner Cable – which has no FiOS-killer offering – should worry
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 18, 2008 : Cable consortium pitching a 'downloadable' conditional access system is getting static from the Consumer Electronics Association, which argues cable ops must obtain a special waiver for BBT's approach
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 18, 2008 : New qualified device will help some TiVo and digital TV owners access 'switched' channels, and early indications are that some cable operators will offer tuning adapters for free
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 17, 2008 : Analysts are mixed about whether the latest bells and whistles to grace TiVo's stand-alone DVRs, including access to YouTube fare, will translate into big subscriber gains
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 17, 2008 : Karin Gilford takes the Fancast reins, indicating that things aren't so great at Yahoo, but likewise that Comcast is getting serious about becoming a legitimate Internet video contender
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 16, 2008 : Purchase of facilities-based CLEC will give Cablevision's business services arm access to a 440 route-mile dark fiber network capable of connecting more than 70% of New Jersey
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (12) July 15, 2008 : After taking the 'leased' path early on, Cox is building its own speedy IP backbone, projecting to have a network with 800-Gig links polished off by the end of 2008
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 15, 2008 : Barring another 'launch anomaly,' Dish's latest bird is set to take flight Tuesday night
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 14, 2008 : Investors cheer deal that tacks on four years to CSG's relationship with the nation's largest MSO, but Comcast still has the option to consolidate subs to a single billing vendor
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : HDNet founder and president will help kick off conference with lively discussion on hi-def, Internet video, VOD, time-shifted TV, targeted advertising, and other advanced video apps and services
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : Instead, proposal from FCC Commissioner would make Comcast stop its present throttling practices in a 'reasonable time frame'
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : Satco says it will cross the 100 hi-def channel finish line ahead of schedule, launch 'TurboHD' packages on Aug. 1
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 11, 2008 : Report says FCC Chairman is circulating a proposal that would impose sanctions against the MSO for allegedly 'blocking' some P2P traffic, a charge the cable operator has long denied
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 10, 2008 : Cable's main pressure group says MSOs and programmers have run DTV edu-spots valued at nearly $94M – nearly half what's been earmarked for a consumer campaign
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 10, 2008 : The agency has issued a spate of waiver orders this week. And, no, Comcast isn't on the list, smartypants
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 10, 2008 : Competive cable MSO tells investors it will 'probably' roll out Docsis 3.0 by the end of 2009 as it seeks out ways to reuse spectrum reclaimed from its 'Analog Crush' project
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 9, 2008 : Agreement covers over-the-top VOIP quality of service issues, but will not give Vonage priority over other Internet traffic flowing over Comcast's broadband network
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 9, 2008 : Stock drops in after-hours trading after vendor blames expected second quarter shortfall on 'maturing demand' for cable voice modems, but expects rebound in H2 as Docsis 3.0 shipments ramp up
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 8, 2008 : The Mouse offers ABC for free to small MSOs where Disney owns and operates the stations, but cable pressure group counters that deal offers 'far too little relief for far too few operators'
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 8, 2008 : Thanks to several 'catalysts' set to take shape later this year, the MSO offers investors an attractive opportunity well before it severs ties with the Time Warner Inc. mother ship, one analyst says
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 8, 2008 : New Zenith DTV converter might give 'low-power' television stations a reason to cheer
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 7, 2008 : Although Pace and Moto are also in the mix at Comcast, Thomson is the first vendor to announce a firm digital terminal adapter (DTA) purchase agreement with the operator
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 4, 2008 : Join us for a somewhat cable-centric jog down memory lane to see what this World Wide Web of ours looks like in relative days of yore...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 2, 2008 : Cisco and Motorola get the call for switched digital video pilots taking place in Minneapolis and St. Paul, expanding on SDV work the MSO already has underway in Denver and Cherry Hill, NJ
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) July 2, 2008 : DirecTV could be the 'big winner' when the Dish-AT&T partnership terminates at year's end, and could hurt Dish's ability to add subscribers heading into '09, analyst says
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (6) July 1, 2008 : Not content with a recent FCC order that prevents the telco from using certain 'win-back' tactics when phone subs jump to cable, Verizon is appealing its case in court
The Bauminator - Jeff Baumgartner - Post a comment July 1, 2008 : Or maybe it's a bit of both, according to a new forecast that appears to hit and miss on a few important things...
LR Cable News Analysis - Jeff Baumgartner - Comments (3) July 1, 2008 : The 3 GHz spectrum overlay specialist reveals in a 10-K filing Tuesday that it could be lights out if the company is unable to drum up additional capital in the next three months
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