Time Warner Cable has agreed to pay $3 billion in cash for Insight Communications. The transaction, subject to approvals, will strengthen Time Warner Cable’s presence in the east of USA presence, adding more than 750,000 subscribers in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Insight is owned by The Carlyle Group, Crestview Partners, MidOcean Partners, members of Insight […]
Leaked details of TiVo’s Premiere Elite DVR suggest the device will feature four tuners. According to documents filed with the FCC, the Premiere Elite will operate (record or view) up to four shows simultaneously. It is THX-certified and fully compatible with 1080p/1080i video. Destined for the retail market, the Premiere Elite has two terabytes of […]
The FT in Germany has reported that the UK’s Star Capital is looking to bid for German cable operator Tele Columbus. Star already owns German cable operator Pepcom and is said to be in negotiations to buy Tele Columbus. Tele Columbus serves 2.1 million households in eastern Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse. Pepcom has about […]
Viacom and Cablevision Systems have resolved a dispute over the latter’s alleged unauthorised streaming of Viacom channels on Apple Inc’s iPad. In a joint statement, the companies said the settlement allows Viacom programming to remain on Cablevision’s Optimum Apps for the iPad and other devices. It also resolves a lawsuit that Viacom had filed in […]
Global security provider Conax announced it has entered a contract with Brazilian cable TV operator, SimTV. In the contract Conax will deliver a high-end content protection solution for SIMTV’s cable TV service and guidance for the digitisation of the operator’s 16 remote sites throughout the country. SimTV, a leading player within the Brazilian market, offers […]
Operators around the globe are waiting for the price of next-generation Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) technologies to drop before they replace existing FTTH equipment, according to a report from Infonetics Research. The next-generation FTTH technologies which currently feature prominently on operators’ shopping lists are believed to include 10G EPON, XGPON1 (asymmetric 10G PON) and WDM-PON. However, despite […]
German cable network operator Tele Columbus has found several investors to acquire the company, according to German press agency dpa. The operator is the hands of more than 100 international creditors that acquired the company by dropping several hundreds of millions euros in debt during 2010. In the beginning of this year, they took the […]
The value – and subscriber appeal – of two-way digital transmission is paying off for Mexican MSO Megacable. While its overall subs base has only expanded 2 per cent (to 1.77 million) its investment in digital transmission has helped push subscriber growth of 133 per cent to 738,000(as at June 30). 97 per cent of […]
Comcast reported strong earnings in its first full quarter since purchasing a majority stake in NBC Universal, which helped drive growth through its cable networks and movie studio. Q2 revenue for the US cable giant jumped 51 per cent to $14.3 billion. NBCU’s revenue was 17 per cent higher than it would have been last […]
International cable company Liberty Global has reported consolidated revenues of $2.62 billion for the three months ended 30 June 2011. This figure represents an increase of 21 per cent on the $924.1 million recorded in the same period a year ago. Operating income increased from $327.1 million during 2Q10 to $530.8 million during the year-later […]