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Home : Six Cable Cos Forming Joint Company For Targeted Ads Across Networks; More Details

Six Cable Cos Forming Joint Company For Targeted Ads Across Networks; More Details

Mar 10, 2008 by J. Frank Wilson
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Six Cable Cos Forming Joint Company For Targeted Ads Across Networks; More Details - Comcast Logo 2 (1) 1This has been in the works for a while now, and we reported on it here in Feb. Now NYT has some more details: six of the largest cable companies in U.S.– Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), Cox Communications, Charter Six Cable Cos Forming Joint Company For Targeted Ads Across Networks; More Details - Joblogo 2Communications (NSDQ: CHTR) and Bright House Networks– are working to jointly form a separate company that would allow national advertisers to buy customized and targeted ads across the companies’ systems. The new company is still unnamed (but codenamed Project Canoe), and these companies have been working on it for about six months…the talks have been led by Stephen Burke, president of Comcast, and Landel Hobbs, the COO of Time Warner Cable.

Six Cable Cos Forming Joint Company For Targeted Ads Across Networks; More Details - Charter Logo 3These six companies will put up a total of $150 million behind this effort. As we noted in the report before, Comcast itself may put up the most, between $50-$70 million.

Six Cable Cos Forming Joint Company For Targeted Ads Across Networks; More Details - Cablevision Logo 4The idea is to try and combat the likes of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) into the business of selling TV ads across cable and satellite network, something the search firm has started doing with Echostar (NSDQ: DISH) and working on deals with others. The execs in Croject Canoe believe by jointly working on this ad platform, they can increase the cable industry’s take from $5 billion a year to $15 billion a year, the NYT story says.

Six Cable Cos Forming Joint Company For Targeted Ads Across Networks; More Details - 250130 5Some of these companies, including Comcast, as also working on interoperable cable/DVR boxes, through CableLabs’ Tru2Way initiative. In fact at CES, Comcast announced that it was teaming up with Panasonic and launching a portable DVR and a plasma TV with a built-in set-top box and both are designed to be interoperable and work with other cable companies.

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J. Frank Wilson
J. Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson is a retired teacher with over 30 years of combined experience in the education, small business technology, and real estate business. He now blogs as a hobby and spends most days tinkering with old computers. Wilson is passionate about tech, enjoys fishing, and loves drinking beer.


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