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IBC 2009: Tandberg Unveils Next-Generation MPEG-4 Gear Shows complete contribution system Broadcasting & Cable
IBC Amsterdam 2009: Complete Coverage of the IBC Show
Ericsson unit Tandberg Television introduced at IBC new MPEG-4 encoding products aimed at both backhauling high-definition signals and distributing them directly to consumers.
According to Tandberg VP of technology Matthew Goldman, Tandberg is the only vendor to provide a complete MPEG-4 AVC HD 4:2:2 system ..... IBC 2009: AmberFin Nets Big Warner Bros. Deal Will provide JPEG2000 ingest and transcode system Broadcasting & Cable
IBC Amsterdam 2009: Complete Coverage of the IBC Show
Video processing and transcoding specialist AmberFin announced Sept. 14 at IBC that it has inked a deal with Warner Bros. to deliver a complete ingest and transcode solution based on the JPEG2000 compression standard for Warner Bros. Technical Operations' DETE (Digital End-to-End) workflow and distribution system...... Kanye West outburst mars MTV music video awards Christine Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - The MTV video music awards held on Sunday paid tribute to the late Michael Jackson, but was overshadowed by an outburst by rapper Kanye Pew Releases Television News Survey Most Americans Think News Organizations Are Politically Biased, Often Inaccurate Multichannel News
Most Americans think news organizations are politically biased and often inaccurate, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
Despite that view, they still say that the demise of those news organizations would be a major loss.
Television remains the dominant source for national and local news, beating out the Internet and newspapers, with TV statio..... Review Set for NTIA's Efforts on Stimulus Multichannel NewsWashington — The Commerce Department's Office of the Inspector General is conducting a review of its handling of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program portion of the economic stimulus package, it said. The review is provided for in the legislation that established the program. Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration is the ..... YouTube's $300 Million Bandwidth Tab Multichannel News YouTube, the Internet's most-popular video site, will spend approximately $300 million on bandwidth in 2009 — meaning it won't be profitable for the year, according to a revised analysis by Credit Suisse. In a previous report, in April, Credit Suisse analysts Spencer Wang and Kenneth Sena pegged YouTube's bandwidth costs at about $360 million for the year. However..... Wideband Gets Biz Boost Comcast Fires Up 100-Mbps Tier for Businesses In Twin Cities Multichannel News Comcast has launched a 100-Megabits-per-second Internet service for businesses in Minneapolis-St. Paul, an opening salvo in one of its most aggressive assaults yet on telephone companies' commercial services. Comcast's first DOCSIS 3.0 market deployment was in the Twin Cities, in April 2008. The new business service offers up to 100 Mbps downloads and up to 15 Mbps uploads..... USA's Hit Parade Runs Year-Round Multichannel News USA Network is hoping to produce an encore performance of its hit-filled summer in the fall with an aggressive original programming lineup which includes its first ever scripted series launch. In October, the network will launch White Collar, a dramedy which pairs a con artist with an FBI agent, to run alongside venerable ratings hits Psych and Monk. That gives th..... Cable's Indian Summer Networks Look for Ratings Sizzle in Fall Multichannel News After a ratings-record-breaking summer, cable is hoping some of the heat will continue into the fall. Cable networks just scored a 10th-straight summer win over their broadcast rivals in household share, and many think the medium can do just as well with scripted fare in the cooler months — despite the seasonal gale of promotions for new broadcast shows. Cable networks..... Reclaiming Pay-Per-View's Crown Multichannel News Undefeated ex-boxing champion FloydMayweather steps into the ring Sept. 19 to fight Juan Manuel Marquez in the cable industry's first big pay-per-view boxing match since May. Mayweather, who retired in 2007 after drawing more than 3.4 million PPV buys, the most ever for a boxer in a year, is looking to reclaim his crown as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport, as well as..... Web Players Add Partners Brightcove, ThePlatform Up the Ante in Video Rivalry Multichannel News Rival online-video management platform providers Brightcove and thePlatform have both upped the ante in terms of their respective partner programs. Brightcove said it has doubled the size of its program in the past seven months to include more than 200 technology, distribution and solution providers. The company also has expanded the Brightcove Alliance partner categories, w..... Discovery's Zaslav Earns a Big Bump Multichannel News Discovery Communications revamped its employment agreement with CEO David Zaslav, extending it to early 2015, increasing his base salary to $3 million and creating incentives that could reap the cable veteran more than $55 million over the life of the contract. According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission late last Thursday, Zaslav's new employment agr..... Cable Positive to Fold Up Its Tent Multichannel News After a 17-year run, Cable Positive will close its national office and wind down operations by the end of the year, the HIV/AIDS-awareness group announced. The organization said its board of directors voted to shut its doors given broad industry support for the cause. Meanwhile, Cable Positive had already cancelled its annual fundraising dinner — its biggest source of funds...... Ready to buy a network? Comcast COO Hints At Hunt for Content — Not More Systems Multichannel News Comcast chief operating officer Steve Burke briefly shook up an industry conference last week, hinting that the nation's largest MSO could be on the hunt for content, but quickly added he was not ready to make any transformational deals. Burke, speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment conference in Marina del Rey, Calif., last Wedn..... MSG Varsity Suits Up Cablevision Preps High-School-Focused Channels, Web Site Multichannel News Cablevision Systems hascalled a multiplatform play for MSG Varsity — touted as the New York area's “ultimate destination for high-school sports and activities” — with a Sept. 24 launch of four linear channels and a companion Web site for its 3.1 million cable TV and broadband customers. For now, Cablevision has no plans to sell advertising on MSG Varsity..... A Full (Mouse) House Disney Channel, Disney XD Set Plans for the Fall Season Multichannel News Disney Channel and sisterservice Disney XD will offer more originals this fall, with returning hits, specials and premieres. Disney Channel will debut a one-hour special in October based on its popular Suite Life On Deck series. Meanwhile, its “Playhouse Disney” block and standalone channel Disney XD will step up original-programming efforts in the fall to better ..... Take These For What They're Worth Broadcasting & Cable If you have read this column for a while, you know my pet peeve as a former communications executive is that journalists frequently sit around and pick apart everyone's business or creative ideas, without coming up with any solutions. So every few months, I like to throw out a few random ideas of my own. Some in the past have actually come to fruition, while others have earned em..... Darnell: Reality “Will Come Back” Fox alternative boss on Ellen, 'Idol' and the state of the genre Broadcasting & Cable Fox's decision to sit Ellen DeGeneres at the American Idol judges' table is a bold move designed to maintain the reality champ's place on top of the TV world. And reality TV on the networks could use the good news, as the genre is in need of some fresh blood. Mike Darnell, President of Alternative Entertainment for Fox, spoke with B&C Executive Editor Meliss..... Cable Nets Eye Leno Time Slot After hot summer, 10 p.m. could be new opportunity Broadcasting & Cable Bolstered by a strong summer and sensing opportunity in a scheduling landscape turned on its head with the move of Jay Leno to primetime (and the subsequent subtraction of a number of drama series), many cable programmers are taking more shots in the fall than they have in previous years. Among those are some even within Leno's own company. “Obviously we hope [Len..... Media Deal Trigger Fingers Get Itchy Industry buzz increasing around improving M&A marketplace Broadcasting & Cable September marks the beginning of the football season and the television season, but this year it could also be the start of a mergers and acquisitions season. Several Wall Street analysts are suggesting it's time the M&A market got started again. Citigroup's media analyst Jason Bazinet made the case Sept. 10 for a Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger. And earlier last week.....
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