Ted Sarandos, Netflix's Chief Content Officer, probably felt like a bit of an outsider sitting on a panel with executives from Cox, Time Warner Cable, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation at the 2012 Cable Show. After all, it's not a stretch to say his service is one of the biggest ways that...
"We have billions of hours of viewing, so that's going to take away from something." Ted Sarandos, Netflix CCO
When we saw an 82-inch Windows 8 machine at Mobile World Congress earlier this year we never imagined that Microsoft might be considering selling such a display, but it appears that's one way Windows 8 will enter the market later this year....
iHeartRadio launched a TV-optimized web app for Google TV this week, adding another tick mark to the slowly growing list of websites optimized for the big screen. The newest incarnation of the popular browser and mobile app lets music lovers stream from over 800 live radio stations, or create their own based on a song or artist. The television interface displays hi-res album artwork and the...
The 2012 Cable Show's opening session felt the opening of a political campaign, and in some ways, that's exactly what it was — full of talk about innovation, change, and meeting the people's needs, the whole event is designed to rally the industry around the future of cable in a vastly changing media landscape. But beneath the acknowledgement of the rapid changes underway and cable's need to evolve along with them was a strong defense of providers and networks continuing to do business exactly as they have done for the last four decades or so.
Michael Powell, former FCC chairman and current president and CEO of the host National Cable & Telecommunications Association, laid things out in his remarks that opened the show, saying that consumers "want the ability to get content that we paid for here, there, and everywhere. We say to...
We're a long way from having our cable content "here, there, and everywhere"
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