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Engadget HD (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Cable , New content Look, we fully get that any HD is better than no HD, but when a carrier can't find the time to add USA HD, SciFi HD and HBO HD, we begin to wonder who's setting the prioroties. It's being bruited that five new high-def networks will be landing on Cablevision 's systems on or around October 14th: VH1 HD, Palladia, Fuse HD, CMT HD and NHL HD. Not the most riveting list...
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broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Charter, Cox, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Comcast and Bright House Networks are collaboratively working on a new advertising system they've dubbed "Canoe." The effort, designed to help keep billions in ad dollars from flowing to the Google's of the world, will attempt to make TV advertising more interactive and user (or neighborhood) specific. While the program isn't expected to really take off...
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Wifinet (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Philadelphia network has 100,000 monthly sessions: NAC, which took over Phila.'s network from EarthLink, has assumed full control at the end of a 3-month transition period, Wi-Fi Planet reports. The company said that sessions average 4 hours. The new owners are looking to entice Phila. to have them build a wireless public-safety network and offer business services as well. While NAC's head Derek Pew...
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Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
BETHPAGE, N.Y. (AP) -- A leading New York cable television operator and media company is putting its resources behind a foundation that is raising public awareness of the fight against pancreatic cancer....
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
James Dolan, the feisty Cablevision CEO, said yesterday his company will launch a public-awareness campaign to support the fight against pancreatic cancer. The campaign will be run in conjunction with The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic...
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
To raise awareness of pancreatic cancer and help find a cure, Cablevision Systems Corp. announced yesterday that it would embark on a campaign about the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths and cover the $2 million in yearly administrative costs of the nation's largest private supporter of pancreatic cancer research.
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
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broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Fierce Wireless chats up Cablevision's senior vice president of wireless product development Kevin Curran about the company's plan to offer free Wi-Fi to all of their customers. The network will cost about $100 per customer (Cablevision has 3.1 million cable customers) and take about two years to finish, with Curran suggesting that the finished product, tied into an upgraded DOCSIS 3.0 infrastructure,...
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The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Here's the latest insanity from my internet provider, Optimum OnLine by Cable Vision: DNS Redirect. I used to just punch in "WSJ" into Safari's URL, hit enter, and off I went. Since last week, that now sends me to an ad-based Optimum page (powered by Google). Incensed, I called the help line and found out this was a system-wide change since 9/22/08. The woman also tells me I was the first person to...
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UNEASYsilence (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
Cablevision, one of my ISPs, seem to have jumped the shark by hijacking a users DNS and displaying sponsored results. As reported by blogger Justin Flood Cablevision has secretly adjusted their TOS to reflect this morally questionable service. The preceding search results page is displayed to you as a result of the specific Domain Name Service (DNS) [...]
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Mario Gabelli turned the heat up on Cablevision Systems Thursday, saying that he planned to screen potential candidates for the media company’s board. Mr. Gabelli, Cablevision’s largest individual shareholder, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that his investment firm “is considering contacting individuals concerning their interest and their qualification to serve on [...]...
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Cablevision crews worked this morning to repair a glitch that caused a public service announcement to replay in some areas, a customer service representative said. A message concerning the emergency-broadcast system came on about 11:45 p.m. and then played sporadically...
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kamen group | 05/23/2008
Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen: Cablevision Infuriating Customers By Eliminating Analog Channels Baldwin, NY - Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen, President/CEO of Kamen & Co Group Services of Baldwin, believes Cablevision is waging an unnecessary war with hundreds of thousands of its customers by eliminating some of its analog channels from its family package as it moves toward digital services. Kamen stated,...
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kamen group | 05/23/2008
Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen: Cablevision Infuriating Customers By Eliminating Analog Channels Baldwin, NY - Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen, President/CEO of Kamen & Co Group Services of Baldwin, believes Cablevision is waging an unnecessary war with hundreds of thousands of its customers by eliminating some of its analog channels from its family package as it moves toward digital services. Kamen stated,...
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kamen group | 05/11/2008
Media Appraiser Kevin Kamen: Cablevision About to Win the Trifecta Baldwin, NY - If and when Cablevision's Dolan family and Sam Zell of the Tribune Co. reach an accord on the sale of Newsday this week, the Bethpage-based Cablevision will have won the trifecta. They will have acquired the only piece of the media trade - print - that they could not have organically produced themselves in one swell swoop....
