By:
Jeff Simmermon
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Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, In the Community, Product Launches, Retransmission Consent, Roll Over or Get Tough

Attention football fans, princess lovers, and Wife-Swap watchers … It warms the core of my leathery corporate heart to bring you the following announcement:

We’re pleased to announce that we have reached a long-term agreement with ESPN/ABC and Disney to provide…

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Expect More From Your Digital Home Phone

By:
Ingrid Simunic
Categories:
Cool Stuff, Product Launches, What's New


I oversee Voice Product Management at Time Warner Cable and since 2005, I’ve been responsible for managing Digital Home Phone. During that time, our home phone customer base has grown from approximately 500,000 to over 4 million users and still…

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Mike O’Malley and New Technology Shine at New York State Fair

By:
David Washburn
Categories:
In the Community, Northeast, Product Launches

Mike O’Malley drew hundreds of fans, signing autographs and posing for pictures, at the Time Warner Cable display at The Great New York State Fair on opening day, Aug. 26. Time Warner Cable’s new technology was also a big star.

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We’ve Made Progress With Disney, Working Together to Beat the Deadline

By:
Jeff Simmermon
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What's New

You better believe that it brings me a deep and tremendous pleasure to share the following statement with you, straight from our negotiating room this weekend:

The Walt Disney Company and Time Warner Cable have made significant progress in our negotiations for…

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Relax. Breathe. We’re Committed to Keeping Disney, ABC, ESPN On the Air

By:
Jeff Simmermon
Categories:
Fact-Checking, Retransmission Consent, Roll Over or Get Tough

As you may have heard, Time Warner Cable is currently negotiating new contracts with Disney. Disney owns the Disney cable channels (naturally), as well as ABC and ESPN. We’ve both been working hard to reach an agreement.

This I can…

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A Beginner’s Guide to How HD Works

By:
Scott Pleyte
Categories:
Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Texas

Yesterday I explained why you should watch HDTV – here’s a little background on the technology itself. It is commonly known that HD has better resolution than SD (standard television) so the picture is simply better. However, just because you have…

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Why I Watch HDTV Instead of Standard TV

By:
Scott Pleyte
Categories:
Carolinas, Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Future of the Industry, Hawaii, How-To, Kansas City, Northeast, Product Launches, Texas, What's New

Don Draper

Since my wife and I bought our first home last summer, I have been slowly feeling more and more like an adult. And thankfully the previous owner pre-wired the house with built in surround sound, so I was destined to…

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NY1 and Time Warner Cable Ring the Closing Bell at the NYSE

By:
Jeff Simmermon
Categories:
Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, In the Community

New York One’s “From The Floor” segment is now running live all day long from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. To celebrate, we got to ring the closing bell at the NYSE yesterday. And by “we,” I…

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Cord-Cutting Vs. Cord-Connecting

By:
Jeff Simmermon
Categories:
Content Delivery, Future of the Industry

I’ve worked for Time Warner Cable since May of 2008. I was a cord-cutter through and through though, and didn’t get cable TV — or buy a TV set period — until sometime after Thanksgiving, 2009. I’m not a huge…

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Where Cable Comes From, Part 3: the Node

By:
Jeff Simmermon
Categories:
Broadband Penetration/Deployment, Cool Stuff, Fact-Checking

Some time ago, I went to our head end in New York City and took a whole bunch of pictures. As time permits, I’ve been using them to illustrate where cable comes from and how it gets into your home.

When cable broadband…

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