Comcast’s Digital Deal and Our Digital Wallets

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Last month, I’d gotten fed up. My Comcast DVR only held 10 hours of HD programming, and I was tired of being its valet. So I did my research, found out about my old friend Tivo’s new products, and decided to buy one. Tivo was still ...

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Can Cablevision Turn a Triple Play into a Newsday Homer?

Those synergies in this order: 1. Joint ad sales. 2. Synergistic news-gathering and production. 3. Monetizing cable-produced news video through Newsday's site.

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Cablevision Moves Forward with First Home Run Game Plan

I’ve long compared the cable and phone companies on the one hand to the newspaper companies on the other. Newspaper companies saw there business being upended by the Internet, made small bets and have lost out on the big ad growth the web has generated. Telephone companies — the ...

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