Archive for August, 2009

Buyer Beware, Part 2

Earlier this month, there were questions about whether or not local TV channels were available through DirecTV. Now, there’s concern about contracts and early cancellation fees.

08/31/09 at 12:31 pm

Still More WiFi Launches

The launch train rolls on for Suddenlink WiFi@Home: The newest markets to receive the service include Conroe, Lake Conroe, Montgomery, Willis, Kingwood, Lufkin, Diboll, and Nacogdoches — all in Texas.

08/28/09 at 12:26 pm

Movie Theaters and Cockroaches

As legend has it, cockroaches may be the only form of life to survive a nuclear blast.

Perhaps they can go to the movies.

The AP reports on movie theaters’ next big challenge — and what theater owners are doing to respond.

08/28/09 at 12:23 pm

Marketing Award Nods for Suddenlink

Kudos to Suddenlink’s marketing team. Three of their programs have achieved finalist status in the annual Mark Awards, administered by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing or CTAM.

08/27/09 at 2:55 pm

Another WiFi@Home Launch

Following launches in Texas and Oklahoma earlier this week, Suddenlink WiFi@Home is also now available in the company’s North Carolina service areas.

08/26/09 at 11:04 am

Not Everyone Loves Twitter

From USA Today …

Backlash among anti-Twitterers — reflected in scores of recent online comments to USATODAY.com — often center on unfamiliarity with the technology, its often narcissistic bent and the “random” use by many of its advocates, says Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

08/25/09 at 4:30 pm

Suddenlink Makes ‘WiFi@Home’ Easier

Suddenlink customers in and around several communities in Texas (Tyler, Whitehouse, Bryan-College Station) and Oklahoma (Stillwater, Cushing, Drumright, Perkins, Perry) should find it easier to set up secured wireless networks at home.

The new service — Suddenlink WiFi@Home — features a single device as both modem and wireless router.

Expansion of this service to additional markets will be announced as details and launch schedules are confirmed.

08/24/09 at 2:04 pm

NFL Network Update

Since early June, we have been in active discussions with the NFL Network about adding them to our channel line ups. The NFL Network will not start televising its eight regular season games until mid-November. Before then, we hope we can reach an agreement with them on terms that are similar to the terms we understand the NFL Network agreed to with Comcast earlier this year, when the Network was placed on a digital package of channels — or on terms that are consistent with our prior offers to the Network, including our offer to give them their own, stand-alone channel. Either way, we will continue to negotiate in good faith with the NFL Network, seeking a resolution that is fair to both those customers who are interested in the Network and those who are not.

08/22/09 at 9:54 am 20 comments

Free Disney Movies on Demand

 

For Suddenlink customers with Video On Demand (VOD), the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend offers a selection of free choices from Disney Family Movies. Suddenlink digital cable subscribers with access to VOD can watch these films anytime they want, as many times as they want during the free preview weekend: from Thursday, Sept. 3, through day’s end Monday Sept. 7.

Just go to Channel 1 and select “Disney Free Preview” — or, in West Virginia, “Disney Family Movies.”

Once the free preview period ends, customers with Suddenlink VOD can continue to have unlimited access to Disney Family Movies for $4.99 per month — and they can order that service using their remote controls.

Featured films include:

    • Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
    • Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story
    • Picture Perfect
    • Space Buddies
    • Ernest Goes to Camp
    • Greyfriar’s Bobby
    • Air Bud
    • Melody Time
    • Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
    • The Third Man on the Mountain
    • Pixar Animated Short – Rescue Squad Mater
    • Disney Animated Short – Pluto and the Gopher

08/21/09 at 12:27 pm 2 comments

Blogband: FCC Embraces Social Media

Specifically, to communicate with interested parties about the “national broadband plan,” which the agency is required to deliver to Congress by Feb. 17, 2010. [H/t Multichannel News.]

Among the early offerings at Blogband are a welcome message from Chairman Julius Genachowski — and an interesting take on fortune cookies by President Obama’s Broadband Czar, Blair Levin.

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TRIVIA: The last time Congress established a Feb. 17 deadline, they extended it. We’re not saying that will happen again, but the dates were just too coincidental to ignore.

08/19/09 at 12:54 pm

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