Archive for December, 2008

DTV Preparations

In various parts of the country, a number of TV stations are conducting early tests: cutting off their analog signals and relying solely on their digital signals — usually for a few minutes at a time. (See this story for one example, slated for Dec. 9 among Houston-area TV stations.)

Such tests are all part of ongoing preparations for the primary cutover to digital broadcasting on Feb. 17, 2009.

If you’re a Suddenlink customer and experience a problem during one of these temporary tests — please don’t worry. Suddenlink engineers are aware of these tests, are monitoring them and actively working with the TV stations to address any issues that result. Importantly: Suddenlink engineers are on schedule to have our company facilities ready for the transition on or about Dec. 31 — approximately six weeks before the primary cutover on Feb. 17 — so that, if customer TV sets are hooked up to Suddenlink, they should continue to work just fine.

For more on the digital transition, see this Q&A.

12/09/08 at 4:59 pm

VOD Expansion Reaches Louisiana

Suddenlink announced today that it will launch video-on-demand (VOD) service this week in Lake Charles and Sulphur, Louisiana — the first such launch for the company outside of West Virginia or Texas.

Once enabled, Suddenlink’s VOD service offers thousands of viewing choices, including movies, sports, news, music, and shows from popular cable networks such as Nickelodeon, NOGGIN, MTV, Comedy Central and Discovery. Local programming will also be available, as will an expanded inventory of high-definition (HD) programming.

More than a third of the Suddenlink VOD library will be free; the rest will be available for either a per-view charge or monthly subscription. Suddenlink’s VOD library will be regularly updated, with about 30% of the inventory changing over each month to make fresh choices available to customers.

VOD allows viewers to order the titles of their choice via remote control, at any time, and have access to those titles for an extended period; typically, 24 hours. Viewers can also pause, rewind and fast-forward their choices, much as they do with a VCR (video cassette recorder) or DVR (digital video recorder).

12/08/08 at 1:35 pm 6 comments

‘Full-On Obsession’

That’s how Cable Advertising Bureau President and CEO Sean Cunningham describes Americans’ appetite for TV and other means of watching video.

More here.

12/05/08 at 4:47 pm

Favorite Cable Channels

According to a new survey, the Discovery Channel, History Channel, and ESPN receive top rankings on the list of favorites.

What are your favorites?

12/03/08 at 1:29 pm 24 comments

Another Recognition for Rosenthal

After being recognized earlier this year as one of the cable industry‘s 40 most accomplished executives under 40 years of age, Suddenlink General Counsel Craig Rosenthal has snagged a similar honor from the St. Louis Business Journal for young professionals in that paper’s readership area.

 

12/02/08 at 1:43 pm

Year-End Technology Round Ups

For those intrigued by the cutting edge of cable-broadband technology, Multichannel News offers “a list of the Big Five technologies needing translation in 2008,” while CED Magazine presents its own list of “the 50 most important trends, technologies and people of 2008.”

12/01/08 at 11:10 am

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