Entertainment Studios Inc. signed a multi-year carriage extension of its six high-definition television networks available on Verizon FiOS TV. The networks are Cars.TV, Comedy.TV, ES.TV, MyDestinatin.TV, Pets.TV and Recipe.TV. “This […]
One month after the search-advertising giant Google lost its perch within several cable outlets owned by NBC Universal, it has secured a deal with Verizon’s emerging Fios video system.
Do We Really Need A 2nd Broadcast System?
Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone said this week that the carrier now believes that the best way of handling some of the expected demand for video on its new super-fast broadband network is broadcasting — that is, pumping one signal to many users simultaneously rather than millions of signals one at a time. If Verizon Wireless is thinking this way, my bet is that some of its competitor and would-be competitors are too. There’s an obvious alternative: A thousand TV stations pumping video to mobile devices should satisfy much of the demand for on-the-go video and relieve broadband networks of what may be an uneconomical chore.
