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News Round-Up

Submitted by tracyswedlow on January 25, 2010 - 3:07am
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--CableLabs' Next ETV Interop Begins February 22nd, Deadline for Applying Is January 29th
--DirecTV Begins Public Beta of Multiroom DVR
--Report: Hulu Mulling Plans to Launch Subscription Service
--Kaltura Releases Video Extension for Moodle
--Live Interactive Broadband Video Spin-Off Planned for Channel 4's "Embarrassing Bodies"
--Move Networks Appoints Eddy Hartenstein, Sol Trujillo to its Board
--SureWest Launches Microsoft Mediaroom-Based IPTV Service
--Ustream Launches Pay-Per-View Capability
--Verizon Rolls Out Interactive TV Upgrade in Pittsburgh and West Central Florida
--Vimeo Beta-Launches HTML5 Video Player

Because the [itvt] editorial team is busy working on The TV of Tomorrow Show (March 3rd-4th in San Francisco) and on our new EBIF Intensive event (March 5th in San Francisco), we are covering a number of stories in this issue in summary form:

SureWest Switches to Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV Platform

Submitted by tracyswedlow on July 29, 2009 - 2:27am
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--Says Platform Will Allow it to Offer Advanced and Interactive TV Services to 25,000 More Homes

SureWest Communications, an independent triple-play provider that offers service in and around Sacramento, Calif. and Kansas City, MO, announced Tuesday that it will deploy the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV platform to power an advanced TV service over its IP-based fiber-to-the-home and copper networks in the greater Sacramento region. The company, which previously used Minerva's IPTV middleware platform for its Sacramento-area TV offering, anticipates that the new Mediaroom-powered service will be available to new customers by the end of the year.

SureWest Launches Caller-ID on TV in its Sacramento Market

Submitted by tracyswedlow on June 18, 2009 - 12:15am
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SureWest Communications, an independent triple-play provider that offers service in and around Sacramento, Calif. and Kansas City, MO, said Wednesday that it has launched caller-ID on TV on its Sacramento-area networks (note: it already offers the service on its Kansas City networks, which it acquired via its purchase of Everest Broadband in February, 2008).



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