Rainbow Media's VOOM HD Networks to be Carried on Cablevisio

Started by Shane • Jun 21, 2007 • 2 posts

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#1 Jun 21, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Cablevision will now carry Rainbow Media's fifteen channel suite of VOOM HD Networks, it was announced today by Joshua Sapan, Rainbow President and Chief Executive Officer. The VOOM HD Networks will be available to Cablevision subscribers beginning July 1, 2007.

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#2 Jun 23, 2007 at 8:43 pm

Considering that Cablevision and VOOM are owned by the same people (the Dolans) one might ask what the hell took so long? The fact that it did take so long speaks volumes about the challenge cable has for finding bandwidth for HD. The good news is that there is considerable investment now going on in cable to vacate the analog side of their business even to the extent of subsidizing decoder boxes for the digital side. Cable is no less anxious to get out of analog than are the the broadcasters.