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Carlyle Group Leads $100 Million Round for Video Service

Peter Kafka in Media on May 21 at 1:01 pm PT

Avail-TVN, a company that helps process and manage video for cable systems and other services, has raised $100 million in a round led by the Carlyle Group, along with previous investors including Columbia Capital, Valhalla Partners, Novak Biddle and Pioneer Ventures. Avail-TVN used $27 million of the round to buy UK-based On Demand Group, which provides video-on-demand services outside the U.S. Last year, it generated more than $200 million in revenue.

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Five Cable Firms to Share Wi-Fi Hot Spots

Shalini Ramachandran, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 21 at 11:39 am PT

Five large cable operators said Monday they will join forces to give customers access to each other’s wireless Internet hot spots in the most sweeping Wi-Fi roaming agreement struck by the industry to date.

Cable Fee Fight Takes Another Turn as Dish Networks Uses iTunes, Netflix and Amazon as Weapons

Peter Kafka in Media on May 7 at 12:07 pm PT

Wait long enough, or pay enough, and you can see repeats of last night’s “Mad Men” in lots of places. So why pay to see it on cable last night?

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Comcast Profit Rises 30 Percent

William Launder, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 2 at 5:45 am PT

Comcast Corp.’s first-quarter profit gained 30 percent as the cable- and television-network operator benefited from the Super Bowl broadcast on NBCUniversal and continued broadband growth.

Viral Video: “The Newsroom” Is Reborn

Kara Swisher in Media on May 1 at 12:01 am PT

Here’s a new trailer for HBO’s upcoming series “The Newsroom,” by famed Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

You Can Handle the Truth: Aaron Sorkin to Appear Onstage at D10

Kara Swisher in News on April 23 at 10:30 am PT

You know who’s cool? The screenwriter of “The Social Network.”

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News Corp. Considers Cable Sports Network

Russell Adams, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on March 28 at 3:15 pm PT

News Corp. is contemplating the launch of a national cable sports network in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the matter.

Cisco Deal for Israel’s NDS: It’s All About Video Anywhere

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 15 at 9:45 am PT

What does Cisco see in Israeli software outfit NDS? Video everywhere and anywhere.

Viral Video: Best Worst Sarah Palin Imitation

Kara Swisher in Media on March 14 at 1:17 am PT

Heh.

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The New Cable-TV Guy: Intel

Sam Schechner and Don Clark, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 12 at 5:00 pm PT

Intel Corp. is developing an Internet-based TV service that it hopes to sell to U.S. consumers, a strategic shift for the chip maker that makes it the latest technology company to look at a foray in the pay-TV business.