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New Orleans -- Target better or be left behind. That was the word to the cable industry from one of the country's largest automotive advertisers Tuesday in a call to arms to cable to speed its push for addressable advertising.

New Orleans -- Cable-industry leaders delivered a simple message at Sunday’s opening general session of The Cable Show ’08 here, with an estimated 14,000 attendees: The industry is “going on offense” even as competition mushrooms.

Network-neutrality fan Free Press, which has complained to the FCC and elsewhere about Comcast's network management -- they say "blocking" -- of BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic, said Thursday that it wanted to "extend an olive branch" to the cable industry.

Small cable operators are dealing with some big issues in Washington, D.C. American Cable Association president Matt Polka understands how some people have concluded that FCC chairman Kevin Martin has a vendetta against the cable industry but sees an ally in the chairman on program tying.

Polka talked to B&C about how his members -- primarily small cable operators serving a few hundred or a few thousand viewers -- are faring in Washington.

One week after announcing that it would work with BitTorrent on ways to better manage Internet traffic on its network, Comcast announced Wednesday the first rollout of its higher-speed Internet service, which will launch Thursday in the Minneapolis-St.

Paul market. The speedier service is based on the cable industry's DOCSIS 3.0 standard for data delivery.

Universal Electronics, the largest supplier of remote controls to the cable industry, signed a license agreement with Hillcrest Labs for its patented Freespace pointing and motion-control technology, which allows a wireless device to navigate through an interactive program guide by making computer-mouse-like movements through the air.

The National Association of Broadcasters and its spectrum-watchdog counterpart, the Association for Maximum Service Television, weighed in on the FCC's cable digital-TV-carriage order, essentially supporting all of the things the cable industry opposed in its own filing at the FCC.

The Association of Cable Communicators said Wednesday that it picked three nominees for its top honor, the Golden Beacon Award, which honors a cable public-affairs campaign that affects for the cable industry and the industry's national image.

The Association of Cable Communicators said Wednesday that it picked three nominees for its top honor, the Golden Beacon Award, which honors a cable public-affairs campaign that affects for the cable industry and the industry's national image.