cable operators

Small cable operators get three-year exemption from FCC rules requiring cable operators to carry TV stations' HD signals in HD after Feb. 17, 2009.

Nexstar Broadcasting Group chairman, president and CEO hailed as pioneer who fought cable operators for retransmission-consent cash.

FCC gives smaller cable operators waiver from 2001 decision requiring them to pass along TV stations' HD signals in HD after DTV transition.

Mediacom Communications continues cable operators’ upward trend with strong Q2 results.

NBC cable partners to offer enhanced video-on-demand fare.

Comments filed with FCC over whether some top cable operators, Google should be able to team up with Sprint Nextel, Clearwire to provide new WiMax-delivered broadband service.

CableCARDs don’t appear to be going away anytime soon. The clunky conditional-access devices that add an estimated $50-$70 to the cost of a set-top have been deployed by major cable operators in more than 6.2 million digital set-tops since July 2007.

That’s when the FCC’s so-called integration-ban rules kicked in requiring operators to separate conditional access from the rest of a set-top’s functions.

Scopus Video Networks developed a new device for cable headends aimed at the federally mandated requirement for cable operators to carry both digital and analog versions of local broadcasters’ signals after high-powered analog broadcasts cease Feb. 17, 2009.

Multichannel-TV providers were mum on their competitive consumer pricing plans Wednesday, days after New York City solicited proposals for nonexclusive cable-TV franchises that quickly brought forward Verizon Communications.

Making a formal application April 15, Verizon intends to offer video services via its FiOS TV service to New York, signaling that it will be an overbuilder trying to nab customers from two cable-TV incumbents.

ABC stations will continue to air an analog signal after the transition to digital after all, but only for use by analog cable customers.

ABC said Monday that subject to agreements with the local cable operators involved, it would make a standard-definition, 4/3 aspect ratio analog feed of its 10 owned TV stations available to cable operators for at least one year after the transition to digital TV in February 2009.