6 posts and columns on Glenn Britt

Time Warner Cable’s Porn Problem: It Isn’t Selling Enough Porn

in Media on July 29, 2011 at 8:30 am PT

Maybe Hulu and other Web sites aren’t encouraging cord-cutting (yet!). But free Web porn is cutting into a high-profit part of the cable business.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Samsung Teams Up With Comcast, Time Warner, Hulu to Bring TV to Multiple Screens

in Commerce on January 6, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT

During Samsung’s keynote at CES tonight, it invited a full cast of characters to demonstrate how it was moving TV from the living room to both tablets and phones.

Time Warner Cable Backs Off Pay-Per-Byte Broadband Billing

in Media on April 16, 2009 at 12:48 pm PT

That was quick. Time Warner Cable is shelving plans to charge its Internet customers based on usage. For now, that is. The cable giant had planned on charging customers in four locations on a “consumption” plan in which they’d pay between $15 to $150 a month based on the amount of data they hoovered via the Web. But noisy opposition to the plan surfaced immediately and has been getting louder over the past few weeks.

Disney CEO Bob Iger at the Cable Show: “You Can’t Slow the Pace of Technology”

in Media on April 2, 2009 at 6:55 am PT

At one point this month, there had been speculation that Disney CEO Bob Iger would use his speech at the cable industry’s annual convention to announce a deal with Hulu. Instead, Iger used the forum to try to placate his cable partners, who generate an enormous revenue stream for his company, while explaining that he was going to move full-steam ahead when it comes to putting his stuff online for free.
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