Here's a rundown of what's happenin' in cable country today…
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) says it now offers more than 24,000 video-on-demand (VoD) titles each month, with 15,000 available for free to all FiOS TV subs and 3,800 in hi-def format. The additions put Verizon's VoD service in the same league as Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK)'s, which currently tops out at about 25,000 titles. (See Comcast's 'Project Infinity' Takes Flight .)
Cox Communications Inc. has promoted Kelly Williams to VP of wireless product and operations, a move that comes almost two months after Stephen Bye left the company to become VP of technology development at Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S). Williams, late of BellSouth/Cingular/AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), was handling the enterprise project management for Cox Wireless and was running the division's network operations team. (See What's Next for Cox Wireless? and Cox Appoints New VP of Wireless.)