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Users of the Time Warner Cable iPad app will be able to tune into a host of Viacom programs thanks to a resolution in the legal skirmish between the two media companies. The “happy ending” to the litigation between the two was announced yesterday on a Viacom blog, which called it good news for consumers. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120507_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] I’ve had Verizon FiOS service for about a week now and I immediately started sharing my experience in a blog series called, the FiOS Chronicles which you can find at shellypalmer.com.  I live in midtown Manhattan and I waited over 18 months for FiOS to wire my Continue Reading →

I have waited about 18 months for FiOS to finish wiring my apartment building in midtown Manhattan.  It was worth it.  After a short, truly painless, 7-hour conversion, I can say goodbye Time Warner Cable, so long old-fashioned Verizon landlines, adiós cable modem, hasta la vista backup DSL modem – hello 150 Mbps down, 62 Continue Reading →

There’s a lot of people out there out to create the next generation of television, a fair chunk of them through new TV networks. Witness the more than 100 channel proposals Comcast worked through to come up with four, all independently-owned and operated by people or organizations of color, going on their cable systems between Continue Reading →

The journey to the outcome went longer than anticipated, but at last, Comcast has chosen the first players in its new assortment of independently-owned channels cleared among cable affiliates nationwide. The lucky quartet selected for national carriage, in order of their launch dates: BabyFirst Americas, a Latino-centric and managed adaptation of BabyFirst TV, the first Continue Reading →

If you’re a Time Warner Cable subscriber you can now stream live TV on your computer. As long you’re connected to your home network, the TWC TV web app will lets you watch up to 200 live channels excluding Viacom content like MTV. The app also lets you control your DVR and set-top box. Read Continue Reading →

Originally posted at www.TonyGreenberg.com A friend of mine in the research industry used to give out little post-it-notes to trainee analysts that said “be wrong boldly.” Her reasoning – if you are bold and right, you will be hailed as a prophet. If you’re wrong, most likely the crowd will have moved on by the Continue Reading →

After failing to compromise over new rates, Time Warner Cable pulled the MSG Network and MSG+ from subscribers’ cable TV line-up. If you’re a fan of the New York Knicks or a local NHL team, you’ll miss many of this year’s games. Time Warner Cable claims that MSG asked for a 53% increase in rates. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120102_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] After failing to compromise over new rates, Time Warner Cable pulled the MSG Network and MSG+ from subscribers’ cable TV line-up. If you’re a fan of the New York Knicks or a local NHL team, you’ll miss many of this year’s games. In other news, Verizon is Continue Reading →

A few thousand people spend their early December in part inside the Grand Hyatt hotel, watching UBS’ annual global media conference. They’ve been doing it for 39 years, catching presidents, chief executive or financial officers from major media ventures discourse over accomplishments in one year and projections for the next. Few of those few thousand Continue Reading →