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Charter Gains Big in ACSI Survey
Charter Communications, leaped 8% in the American Customer Satisfaction Index in the past year, finishing the period with an overall benchmark score of 64 out of a possible 100 and placing a strong second to perennial cable ACSI leader Cox Communications.Cox finished the period up 3% to 65, still below the 67 score it netted in 2011, but an improvement ...
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Telestream Launches Wirecast 4.3
Telestream has released a new version of its live production streaming software, Wirecast 4.3.New features include live thumbnails for monitoring of all live sources, a countdown clock for managing recorded video within a broadcast and a new integration with Teradek."We are thrilled with the release of Wirecast 4.3, which adds even more sophisticated capabilities for streaming multi-camera ...
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House to Launch Supply Chain Cybersecurity Working Group
The House Energy & Commerce Committee Communications Subcommittee Tuesday is launching a bipartisan supply chain working group focused on the "myriad hardware and software components that make up the communications infrastructure." The concern is the possibility of security breaches along the supply chain, from design to delivery to installation, hardware and software. Congress has ...
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Spike TV To Air Xbox Reveal
As Microsoft prepares to show off the next generation of its gaming console, Spike TV has announced that it will provide exclusive live multiplatform coverage of the "Xbox: A New Generation Revealed" announcement from Microsoft's corporate headquarters on May 21.The May 21 announcement will be closely watched by the gaming community, as Microsoft reveals for the first time key ...
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Dataton Gets The Vote As Province Of Ontario Gets New Premier
In a powerful demonstration of its ability to integrate live data into a multimedia production with both local-venue and broadcast connectivity, Dataton WATCHOUT™ multi-image display and presentation software has been deployed as a key presentation tool at the Canadian Liberal Party’s Ontario Leadership Convention in Toronto. The WATCHOUT licences were supplied to Mediaco by Show ...
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In this third crack at John Godeys 1973 novel about the hijacking of a New York City subway, director Tony Scott imposes his signature stylistic grab bag of spastic random zooms, machine-gun editing, bleary slow motion, and other assorted forms of needless visual assa ... ...
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Countryman B6 Microphone Integral To Production Of Translogic’s Water Powered Flyboard Webisode
Menlo Park, CA - May 2013For anyone fascinated with flying using a jetpack, there is now a more cost effective opportunity to experience the thrill of taking flight: the Water Powered Flyboard. This new, French engineered water toy uses a wakeboard-like base and two hand-held nozzles that, when pulled by a personal watercraft, enables one to fly and perform a wide range of motions. To ...
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Seagate releases 4.5TB video hard drive
Seagate claims to have just released the industry’s first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD) engineered specifically for use in video applications. Purpose-built for video solutions, the Video 3.5 HDD can store up to 480 hours of high-definition content making it the industry’s highest-capacity drive designed specifically for ...
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Stocks finish lower after hitting early highs
Stocks finished slightly lower Monday after many reached new all-time highs early in the session, only to retreat near intraday lows soon after. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.1% at 15,335. The RBR Radio Index was up 14.522, or 2.4%, to 631.932. The TVBR Television Index was up 6.609, or 1.1%, to 614.081. Winners CC Media, up 4.4% Beasley, up 4.2% Entercom, up 1.2% Losers ...
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Stephens Media hires Rick Collier
Rick Collier, formerly of Cox Radio, has become National Sales Manager of Stephens Media Group Tulsa. Stephens currently owns contemporary Christian music station KXOJ 100.9 FM, along with 97.1 FM the Tulsa Sports Animal, and recently announced a pending acquisition of KTSO 94.1 FM and KMYZ 104.5 FM. In addition to his national responsibilities, Collier will continue to cultivate relationships ...
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Study U.S. Pay TV Thrown for Net Loss
Video subscriber gains in the first quarter of 2013 by top U.S. service providers were not enough to avoid a first-ever net subscriber loss in the category over a four-quarter period, Leichtman Research Group (LRG) reported Monday. LRG's analysis of the top 13 multichannel video providers in the U.S., representing 94% of the market, showed that they added about 195,000 net additional ...
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