Bright House Kicks Off All-Digital Transition In Central Florida; Comcast Dropping ‘AnyPlay’
Top Stories - January 17, 2014
Bright House Kicks Off All-Digital Transition In Central Florida Bright House has sparked a plan to all-digital in Central Florida, a strategy that will enable the operator to reclaim valuable analog spectrum and reuse it toward other services, including more high-definition television channels.more
Comcast Dropping 'AnyPlay' Comcast is discontinuing AnyPlay, a specialized video encoding device that delivers live TV to iOS and Android devices over the subscriber's home network, on March 31. more
NBC Expands Its Olympics Partnership With Facebook NBC and Facebook are building upon their Olympics partnership.The two companies have expanded their collaboration to include video content for the social media site to help promote next month's Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia. The first feature, about the friendship between short track speed racer J.R. Celski and rapper Macklemore, debuted Thursday.more
TCA: Showtime's Nevins Cool on Limited Series, 'Believes In Pilots' Showtime entertainment president David Nevins threw some cold water on the recent excitement over limited series Thursday during the pay cabler's portion of the TCA winter press tour.more