Cable, TV & Radio News

Friday, January 20, 2012

SeaChange names Bornak as its new CFO
Video software company SeaChange International Inc. has named Michael Bornak as its new chief financial officer, a role he will assume Jan. 23, according to a release.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Extreme Reach reaches out to TD Bank for $9M credit line
Needham-based video advertising company Extreme Reach Inc. has closed on a $9 million credit facility from TD Bank that could lead to acquisitions, the company said in a release.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Nuance announces Smart TV play called Dragon TV
As a race for smart TV heats up, Nuance Communications Inc. aims to make obsolete the domestic battle for control over the TV remote. With Apple TV and Google TV both reportedly in the works, Burlington-based Nuance is making an early play at being the provider of natural language processing software for this nascent market.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Comcast commits to bring more broadband to Innovation District
On Thursday, the city and Comcast Corp. said Comcast’s advanced fiber network is being expanded into parts of the Innovation District that aren’t reached by the company right now.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Captivate hires Fast Co., Newsweek vet Hagerty
Captivate Network Inc., a Chelmsford digital media company that puts media content onto video screens in elevators, has picked former Fast Company and Newsweek U.S. publisher Patrick Hagerty as its new chief revenue officer.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

ZeeVee adds channels with OTT TV software
ZeeVee Inc. is turning nearly half its attention away from its video distribution hardware business to a new product line -- a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product the company announced in a press release this morning.

Friday, February 4, 2011

Cuban at MIT: Video revolution needs some work
The outspoken Mark Cuban told a crowd at MIT last night that the amount of video content on either the Internet or TV is going to explode and drive innovation. “Our consumption and creation and utilization of video is going to grow faster than the Verizon’s or the Comcast’s and the rest can support,” he told a sold-out audience of more than 300 during the MIT Enterprise Forum’s event “IPTV, The Scrum for the Last 6 Feet.”

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Gotuit goes south in sale to N.C.’s Digitalsmiths
Gotuit Media Corp., a Woburn-based online digital media products company, has been purchased by North Carolina company Digitalsmiths Corp. for an undisclosed amount.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

SeaChange nets $25M from sale of Casa Systems stake
SeaChange International Inc., a developer of video-on-demand technologies, has sold its stake in Casa Systems Inc., which specializes in delivering video over cable networks, for a pre-tax gain of $25.2 million.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

WCRB sale to WGBH marks end of broadcast innovator
Greater Boston has a long history as a technology hotbed for audiophiles. Intimately linked to that bit of history is the story of classical radio station WCRB, where Dave MacNeill has been an on-air fixture for most of the past six decades.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Avid to cut 120 in restructuring plan
Avid Technology Inc., a developer of digital-film editing systems, said Friday it will cut 120 employees as it restructures its business. A company spokeswoman was unable to say how many of those job cuts will occur in Massachusetts.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Avid signs Boston area’s biggest suburban lease of the year
Audio and video company Avid Technology Inc. has committed to a 10-year, 203,000-square-foot lease for a new company headquarters in Burlington’s Northwest Park — the Boston area’s largest suburban lease deal of 2009, according to local real estate executives.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Emerging Technologies: Emerging tech trends in brief
Analyst firms expound on subjects such as location-based services, networked TVs and cloud computing, among others.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Dish Network serves up $6M to 46 states in settlement
All six New England states will get a share of the settlement pie after Dish Network Corp. of New Jersey announced it had entered into an agreement with 46 state attorneys general in which it will pay out $6 million.
Video Views: Online video meets TV; face the future
Denise de Murcie, director of brand management, Liberty Medical Supply Inc.: The PC today only accounts for 5 percent of all video that’s being watched. But even with gradual growth, it will soon have a serious impact. In two years, 10 percent of all video viewed may be coming from an online source.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

MassNetComms brings startups, telco vets together at summit
The Massachusetts Network Communications Council held its 2009 Innovators Summit last night, with 16 companies presenting their technology and business plans to a crowd of investors and telecom industry veterans.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

OmniPresence slam-dunks videoconferencing deal with Celtics
Marlborough-based audio and video teleconferencing company OmniPresence Inc. has landed the position of the official video conferencing and audio visual solutions partner for the Boston Celtics.

Friday, March 27, 2009

The Ef Word: Broadband boosterism blooms on Newbury Street
MHT's Efrain Viscarolasaga: Ten years ago last week, the first cable modems were certified for version 1.0 of the then-new data-over-cable service interface specification standard, making it possible to send data over coaxial cables and marking the entrance of cable operators into the broadband market. Let's take a look at the future of broadband with Rouzbeh Yassini, the “Father of the Cable Modem.”

Friday, March 20, 2009

StopLift sees a way to end retail inside theft
Not everyone has to worry about the grocery bill. “Sweethearting,” as it’s known to retailers, is when the cashier lets friends and family walk out with more than they paid for — and it’s more common than you might think.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Tech Citizenship: Comcast is wired for education
Comcast Corp. continues to extend its charitable arm throughout the communities it serves. Nick Leuci, vice president of community investments, said the company looks for a genuine obligation from its employees to give back to communities in as large a way as possible.