A growing number of small and independent cable operators are preparing to get rid of the very product that once drew customers to their business: TV programming.
With the wholesale price of programming increasing at a rate far higher than the retail cost, many operators are generally ready to get out of the programming business and instead allow customers to pick and choose programming services with an IP, or over-the-top system.
The Federal Communications Commission has put out for public notice Mediacom's request that the FCC force media conglomerates to unbundle their package programming deals.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) is requesting comment on the 45-day public trial of a new system of registration procedures for Google’s TV bands database system that was completed on July 17, 2014.
Google has provided a summary report on the trial of its new registration procedures and modified database system to OET.
This summary report identifies: 1) problems reported and their disposition and 2) descriptions of changes made by Google to its new registration procedures or its channel availability calculator during the trial period. The FCC is requesting that interested parties submit comments on the trial and this report by August 13, 2014. Replies are due by August 19, 2014.
Kurdish media habits are similar to that of the national population of Turkey, according to media research data released by the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
Amidst reduced press freedoms, younger people across Turkey are looking toward the Internet and social media to consume news and information.
Across Turkey, television remains the top choice for news (90% past-week use), but the Internet is very much in second place (42% past-week use) -- including among the country’s Kurdish population, which the research took an in-depth look at for the first time.
[Commentary] The middle ground is not as safe as it might seem. The three options available to the Federal Communications Commission in the open Internet debate can broadly be characterized as light, medium and heavy regulation.
At least two of the three main provisions of the FCC's "medium" regulation proposal have the potential to be quite harmful. The first involves "transparency." Mandated price disclosure helps facilitate cartel behavior.
Second is the prohibition against "commercially unreasonable" practices. The commercially unreasonable standard, particularly in combination with the detailed disclosure requirements, risks generating a steady stream of complaints from interested parties.
[Lenard is president and senior fellow of the Technology Policy Institute]
AT&T has made it official: San Antonio is the next stop on its 1 Gigabit fiber to the home (FTTH) network journey, the latest in a string of locations in Texas where the telecommunications company said it will bring the service.
AT&T will deploy additional fiber and necessary last mile network electronics to its existing network in San Antonio. City leaders lauded the deal as an example of large telecommunications companies and local communities working together to drive new service capabilities.
Neustar, the telecommunications data service provider, is strongly protesting a recommendation that Ericsson's Telcordia unit be named as the winner of a major telephone-numbers management contract.
The contract, which Neustar has had with the US government since 1997, makes up nearly half of Neustar's revenue. At issue is which vendor is going to be the US government's neutral and tested local number portability administrator (LNPA), which helps phone subscribers keep their numbers when switching carriers.
Neustar argued that Ericsson has a vested interest in the success of its US carrier customers and that as a network vendor it cannot be viewed as neutral, and neither can SunGard, Ericsson's subcontractor for data center services, because it has connections to interconnected VoIP and telecom service providers.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council request public comments to provide input into an upcoming update of the , which helps to guide the Administration’s efforts to promote lasting economic growth and competitiveness through policies that support transformative American innovation in products, processes, and services and spur new fundamental discoveries that in the long run lead to growing economic prosperity and rising living standards.
Responses must be received by September 23, 2014 to be considered.
Tech talent never has been cheap. But salaries of skilled coders are shooting even higher, crossing the $100,000-a-year threshold, as everyone from Chicago startups to Silicon Valley giants scrambles for more workers. And employers have little choice but to pay up.
C-SPAN will soon require a pay television subscription to watch its flagship channels on the Internet. Starting in late sumemr, you will have to prove that you pay for television before watching C-SPAN, C-SPAN 2, or C-SPAN 3 on the web. Live streams of the House and Senate chambers will still be available for free.
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