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Radio: Dean Denhart, President and CEO of BlackArrow

In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Dean Denhart, president and CEO of BlackArrow, a company that specializes in targeted advertising management technologies for on-demand platforms (note: among other things, the company recently announced that it had raised $20 million in new funding and that [...]

Appeals Court Gives Green Light to Cablevision’s RS-DVR Service

–Cablevision Plans to Launch Service Early Next Year
A US appeals court last month overturned a lower-court decision that Cablevision’s Remote Storage DVR (RS-DVR) service would violate the copyrights of the broadcasters and studios whose content would be stored on it. The ruling also removed an injunction that had prevented the operator from launching the service. [...]

Cablevision Launches Interactive TV Subscription Channel for Newsday

New York-area MSO, Cablevision, has launched an interactive TV subscription channel for Newsday, the Long Island newspaper that it acquired earlier this year. The channel, dubbed “Newsday TV” and located on channel 611, allows Long Island customers of Cablevision’s iO TV digital cable service to instantly subscribe to the newspaper, using an on-screen order form [...]

NDS’s Steve Tranter on DVR and More

Earlier this month, interactive TV and conditional access technology
provider, NDS, released the results of the “NDS DVR Report,” an
international survey it commissioned of over 1,000 DVR owners. In
this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow

Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Steve Tranter, VP of broadband and
interactive delivery for NDS Americas, discusses the [...]

[itvt] Radio: Interactive TV Design Roundtable

A roundtable comprised of some of the most high-profile designers and
design experts in the interactive TV industry–Patrick Donoghue, SVP
of strategic product development at Cablevision; John Gilles, VP of
media and entertainment at Method; Terry Green, principal of
twenty2product; Dale Herigstad, chief creative officer at Schematic;
Stephanie Otto, CEO of Brainstorm Communications; David Preisman,
VP of interactive television at Showtime [...]

[itvt] Radio: Interactive TV Design Roundtable

A roundtable comprised of some of the most high-profile designers and
design experts in the interactive TV industry–Patrick Donoghue, SVP
of strategic product development at Cablevision; John Gilles, VP of
media and entertainment at Method; Terry Green, principal of
twenty2product; Dale Herigstad, chief creative officer at Schematic;
Stephanie Otto, CEO of Brainstorm Communications; David Preisman,
VP of interactive television at Showtime [...]

Cablevision in Free VOD Deals with MTVN, BETN, Versus, Golf Channel

New York-area MSO, Cablevision, has signed deals with MTV Networks and BET Networks,
under which several hundred programs from MTVN’s MTV, MTV2, VH1, VH1 Classic, CMT, Comedy Central,
Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Noggin, The N, and Logo channels, and from BETN’s BET channel have been added to its iO digital cable platform’s VOD
service. The programs, which are [...]

Top Six MSO’s, Major CE and STB Companies, and Intel Sign tru2way MOU

-Details of MOU Revealed in FCC Filing by Comcast

US cable-industry research, development and standards organization,
CableLabs, announced earlier this month that six companies have
signed a binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) on
tru2way/OCAP technology with the top-six cable operators in the US,

Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Cablevision, Charter and Bright House
Networks (which together account for over 80% of [...]