AMC’s ‘Walking Dead’ Sets Cable TV Viewer Record

Hit Zombie series The Walking Dead broke a cable viewer record last night when the season 2 debut attracted 7.3 million viewers, shattering the previous record held by Kyra Sedgwick's TNT series The Closer. That number of viewers is ... continue

The $100 Million bet by Netflix to get into the original content game

Netflix is a major force on the web as they continue to grow and take a large percentage of our online viewing time. The company is constantly looking at ways to grow its audience  but the one ... continue

Is this online TV thing really that hot?

We are hearing a lot these days about cutting the cord where people are cancelling their cable subscriptions in favor of getting all their entertainment via the Web. This cool infographic from Clicker.com sheds some light on ... continue

European telecoms told by EU to think twice

[caption id="attachment_69928" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda"][/caption] Over here in the US and Canada we constantly hear the telecoms and cable companies beating their chests about how all these big sites like Google and ... continue

Motorola Wants To Connect Cable Boxes To Phones Using MotoBlur Technology

In a recent interview, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said the company is looking to bring a whole new level of connectivity to their consumer products by loading a common Motoblur system on their cable tv boxes and ... continue

Apple TV Subscriptions? Oh man I really hope so!

There is a rumor being floated around the web today that Apple has been approaching the television networks with an eye to creating television subscriptions through their iTunes service. Word has it that the price of the ... continue

Netflix gives cable television a wake-up call – outside of the US

When I first saw the news from Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb about Netflix being in the process of setting up a streaming movie service for outside of the United States I didn't really clue in on it ... continue

Disney CEO on crack for suggesting Hulu charge for access

With all due respect to people like Svetlana Gladkova over at Profy.com anyone who thinks that at this point in time Hulu should start charging for access to its content should stop what they ... continue

Are Comcast and Time Warner ‘authenticating’ themselves right into another failure?

Like others in old media cable companies and media content producers are in a race – a race for survival in a world that they show just about every day that they don’t understand. ... continue

Broadband – a public utility or a profit margin?

Our current crop of broadband providers, companies like Time Warner, Verizon and AT&T, have it pretty good. Their lobbyists often out number local government representatives they are calling calling upon on behalf of the ... continue

Time Warner Cable to try out some social blackmail

Back on April 14th I wrote a post about Time Warner implementing metered broadband in certain test area and how I thought it was a bad idea. I wasn’t the only one to write ... continue