Nielsen Ready To Weave Mobile Viewing With TV Ratings
Top Stories - October 29, 2013
Nielsen Ready To Weave Mobile Viewing With TV Ratings Nielsen on Monday unveiled a software development kit that will give it and its clients the ability to incorporate mobile viewing into TV ratings and dynamic digital ratings, and remove a troublesome blind spot that emerged as consumers continue to watch more and more video on connected devices. more
TW Cable Rolls 100-Meg Upgrade Into Los Angeles Following an initial rollout in Kansas City, where it's dueling with Google Fiber, Time Warner Cable announced Monday that it is in the process of boosting the max downstream speeds for its residential DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem tier to 100 Mbps in Los Angeles, and expects to do the same by the end of the year in New York City and Hawaii.more
Liberty Global Sells Bulk Of International Content Unit To AMC For $1 Billion Liberty Global has struck a deal to sell "substantially all" of its international content division, Chellomedia, to AMC Networks for about $1.03 billion, noting that the sale will allow the MSO to focus on core markets and "more strategic programming opportunities." more
TV'S Identity Crisis How a new device, upstart rivals and the cloud transformed cable TV.more
Fox Promotes Freer To President, COO Of Networks Group Fox has promoted Randy Freer to president and COO of Fox Networks Group, it was announced Monday. Freer, who had been copresident & COO of Fox Sports Media Group with Eric Shanks, will now oversee revenue, distribution and operations in addition to his current role with sports rights acquisitions. Shanks will assume the sole presidency of Fox Sports Media Group.more