Liberty Global Shares Rise on Deal Speculation Liberty Global shares rose nearly 4% ($3 each) in early trading Thursday, after Macquarie Equities media analyst Amy Yong speculated the international cable giant could be a target of global phone power Vodafone.more
Linear TV Viewing Still Matters As Cord-Cutting Trend Expands: Study Although cord-cutting is on the rise, the amount of viewing of regularly scheduled broadcast TV has remained fairly stable, Ericsson found in its fourth-annual ConsumerLab survey, which tabulated results from a mix of online and in-home interviews conducted in more than a dozen countries.more
CMTS/Edge QAM Revenues Dip Again in Q2 The global cable modem termination system and edge QAM markets melted by 4% in the second quarter, as lower-cost downstream and QAM channel shipments dominated the product mix, Infonetics Research said in a report released Thursday.more
Longhorn Network, AT&T U-verse Kick Off TV Everywhere Deal AT&T and ESPN have signed a deal that gives U-verse TV subs access to the Longhorn Network's authenticated TV Everywhere service on Apple iOS devices and on PC browsers at the network's website. more
TiVo's 'Roamio' DVRs Sing Opera TiVo is going big with HTML5 via a partnership with Opera Software that will give Opera developers a way to create apps for TiVo's newly minted Roamio line of DVRs.more