In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” David Housman, general manager of OCAP/tru2way specialist, Vidiom Systems, discusses the company’s new focus, following its amicable split with its founder and former CEO, Tim Wahlers (who has established a new company, enableTV, from parts of Vidiom’s [...]
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[itvt]’s Tracy Swedlow caught up with David Verklin, CEO of Canoe Ventures–the company that is implementing Project Canoe, the US cable industry’s initiative to create a national unified platform for interactive and addressable advertising–at the NewTeeVee Conference in San Francisco last week. Audio of the interview is below, followed by an unedited transcript of the [...]
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In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Tom Pratt, VP of programming and product development at The Weather Channel, discusses the channel’s interactive TV offerings and strategy. Topics covered include why The Weather Channel views implementing interactive TV as a high priority; the channel’s [...]
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In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Comcast Media Center (CMC) COO, Gary Traver, and Homer Gonzalez III, product manager for CMC’s HITS AxIS offering (note: the latter, whose name stands for “Headend in the Sky Advanced Interactive Services,” is a centralized platform that operates [...]
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Cox Communications, the third-largest cable MSO in the US, has promoted Lisa Pickelsimer to executive director of video product development. Pickelsimer, who will report to Steve Necessary, Cox’s VP of video strategy and product management, will be tasked with driving the development of all new product initiatives that encompass video, including initiatives related to TV, [...]
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–Radio Interview: ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller Discusses the Deployment
ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV) will announce today that it has deployed its platform with Oceanic Time Warner Cable in Hawaii. The platform, which features “intelligent video streaming” technology that allows interactive Web content to be delivered on TV via any digital set-top box, is powering a range of [...]
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–Will Form Basis of New OCAP Company, enableTV
–Wahlers Explains Goals of New Company to [itvt]
[itvt] has learned that Geneva-based ADB Group, which acquired US
tru2way/OCAP specialist, Vidiom Systems, back in February, 2006,
has sold parts of that company’s professional services business back to
Vidiom Systems founder, Tim Wahlers. The business will form the
basis of a new company, called [...]
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ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV) recently appointed interactive TV pioneer,
John Callahan, as its CTO. Callahan previously spent 15 years at Time Warner
Cable, where he was involved in many of the operator’s interactive TV and
VOD initiatives, and where he served most recently as SVP of software
engineering for its Advanced Technology Group. He was a significant
contributor to the [...]
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Ben Bennett was named CEO of OpenTV in March, after serving as the company’s COO and acting CEO since August, 2007 (he has been at OpenTV since March, 2000). He recently spoke to [itvt]’s Tracy Swedlow about the three-phase strategy he is implementing, which, among other things, has seen OpenTV jettisoning a number of peripheral [...]
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ActiveVideo Networks (formerly ICTV) recently appointed interactive TV pioneer,
John Callahan, as its CTO. Callahan previously spent 15 years at Time Warner
Cable, where he was involved in many of the operator’s interactive TV and
VOD initiatives, and where he served most recently as SVP of software
engineering for its Advanced Technology Group. He was a significant
contributor to the [...]
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