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        <title>Syncbak In The News</title>
        <description><![CDATA[Syncbak is a media technology company that provides access to live, authenticated broadcast television programming via proprietary hardware, software and internet services. Its live mobile OTT television platform provides local, national and syndicated programming. Syncbak's distribution platform dynamically understands content rights, enabling controlled distribution of free television programming via the internet to mobile and connected devices, including smartphones and tablets (iOS and Android). -> Published using HitRSS.com]]></description>
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            <title>FierceCable: Lack of consistency drags down...</title>
            <link>http://www.fiercecable.com/story/lack-consistency-drags-down-cables-tv-everywhere-ambitions/2013-05-07</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Aside from exclusive programming like DirecTV's (Nasdaq: DTV) Audience Network or Time Warner Cable's (NYSE: TWC) New York 1, there's little difference in the packages of linear networks pay TV providers sell today. But when it comes to authenticating which subscribers get access to TV Everywhere online video portals and apps offered by networks in their bundles, anything goes.
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Des Moines Register: CBS buys stake in Iowa-based mobile TV startup</title>
            <link>http://www.desmoinesregister.com/viewart/20130428/BUSINESS04/304280028/CBS-buys-stake-Iowa-based-mobile-TV-startup</link>
            <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — CBS Corp. says it has made a minority investment in Syncbak, a technology company that allows mobile device users to pick up signals from their local TV stations over the Internet.

Founded in Marion, Ia., in 2009, Syncbak allows people who download the app to watch local programming, even over a cellphone connection.

Broadcasters such as CBS are hoping to reach consumers on new platforms as viewing habits change.

CBS’s investment comes after it and other networks mounted a legal challenge to New York-based Aereo, a startup that plucks broadcast signals for free from the air and distributes them to customers via the Internet for $8 per month or more.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>TVTechnology: OTT Gathers Mainstream Steam</title>
            <link>http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/ott-gathers-mainstream-steam/219074</link>
            <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO—As the industry has grappled to keep abreast of the next new thing when it comes to multiplatform services, technology has morphed into a solution that content creators can no longer afford to ignore—a seamless means of delivering content via broadband that offers a complementary marriage to the broadcast and cable delivery world.
At this year’s NAB Show, it was clear that the industry has begun to embrace over-the-top content in ways that are at turns meaningful, productive and in some cases profitable. But what lies ahead? <br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Small Screens, Big Battle</title>
            <link>http://mobile.broadcastingcable.com/article/493028-Small_Screens_Big_Battle.php</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For all the talk about sparkling 60-inch flat screens and 4K television technology at the recent National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, local broadcasters know their future will play out on a much smaller stage—namely, on the smartphones and iPads in the hands of users traipsing through their markets. As station executives continue to search for the best way to remain relevant to the next generation of consumer, their digital directors are experimenting with an array of content on a range of devices that will give them the best shot of connecting with those users, thwarting the dreaded live-streaming foes and keeping the aging business that is local broadcast TV vital for many years to come.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>WSJ: CBS Buys Stake in TV-Streaming Firm</title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Bloomberg: CBS Invests in TV-Streaming Startup in Challenge to Aereo</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[CBS Corp. (CBS), escalating its conflict with the Internet-television startup Aereo Inc., has acquired a stake in a company called Syncbak that lets local TV stations stream their programming online.
Syncbak works with stations to bring broadcasts to the Internet while limiting the programming to authorized viewers, CBS said today in a statement. The approach differs from that of Aereo, which puts local broadcasts online without the permission of the stations. CBS, based in New York, didn’t disclose the size of the minority investment.

Syncbak represents a way for CBS to adapt to the era of Internet television without losing control of its programming. The network has joined other broadcasters in suing Aereo, seeking to shut down the New York-based company, which is backed by billionaire Barry Diller. Aereo recently won a court appeal that allows it to sell access to broadcasters’ content without paying the networks a fee.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Hollywood Reporter: CBS Corp. Takes Stake in TV Streaming Tech Firm Syncbak Amid Aereo Debate</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The company's technology, which allows the distribution of TV station content online and on mobile devices, is being tested by more than 100 TV stations

CBS Corp. said Monday that it has taken a strategic minority stake in Syncbak, a technology company working on new content distribution opportunities for broadcasters with a focus on streaming online and on mobile devices.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>CBS invests in TV-streaming tech provider Syncbak</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[CBS has made an investment in Syncbak, the company said today, giving it a minority stake in the television-streaming technology provider as it continues its focus on mobile.

Syncbak, a privately held company founded in 2009, makes location-based authentication technology that allows local television stations to stream their signals to in-market customers. Essentially, Syncbak "localizes the Internet" for broadcasters, networks, and TV studios, allowing retransmission of live television over the Web in much the same way it works over cable and satellite. The company's app is available for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, but it doesn't currently work in all regions.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>TVNewsCheck: Live Streaming A Solid Backup To Mobile</title>
            <link>http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/66206/live-streaming-a-solid-backup-to-mobile-dtv/page/1</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I’m not quite ready to write off mobile DTV.  Proponents say they are still trying to pull together the pieces necessary to make broadcasting directly to smartphones and tablets possible and practical, but progress has been painfully slow and some have given up. It’s clearly time to be thinking of a Plan B.

If mobile DTV is, indeed, a bust, broadcasters will need an alternative way to get their linear signals to mobile devices — the screens of choice, or at least the screens of convenience, for a growing number of Americans.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Syncbak releases redesigned app with support for iPad</title>
            <link>http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2013/01/syncbak-releases-redesigned-app-with-support-for-ipad</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A little more than a year after unveiling its internet television platform, Syncbak this week completed the release of its mobile app's second version (above). The app, which streams content in television markets where broadcasters have implemented Syncbak's technology, boasts a redesigned user interface and added features.

Users of the app can now see which content is live and set reminders to alert them of upcoming live content. With a DVR in the cloud feature, broadcasters now have the ability to make programming available after its original air date, as well. On iOS, the new app has native support for the iPad and iPad mini.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>Watch 69News on your phone, tablet</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[You can now watch 69 News live... on your phone!

A new app for smartphones and tablets is making it possible to stream all of our newscasts wherever you go.

You don't ever have to miss another edition of 69 News again.

You can even watch the shows live while on the go.

It's all thanks to a new app called Syncbak.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>MediaBlitz: Under The BRIDGE</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, back in the mid-1990s when many fairy tales were circulating about satellite (it will never work! no one will willingly put a dish on their roof! etc.), the cable guys were the only game in town with "cable" programming.  The smarter cable guys – those who had kept their eyes on digital advances with satellite – knew that this programming was a critical ace in the hole. They knew that satellite in the form of DBS would work ... and that people would happily accessorize their houses with little pizza pie dishes if they could get the programming.    

So it passed that cable operators built as many walls as they could around said programming.  They issued white papers explaining why they shouldn't sell it; they cited laws and statutes to prove they didn't need to sell it.  The FCC did not agree:  In December 1994 it opened the gates for DBS services to carry cable programming.  <br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>New York Times: If Video Sites Could Act Like Cable Companies</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/business/media/fcc-weighs-treating-video-sites-like-cable-companies.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[BOSTON — Most consumers have no idea what an M.V.P.D. is, but they mail a check to one every month. What they call Comcast or Time Warner Cable or DirecTV, the government calls a “multichannel video programming distributor,” or M.V.P.D. for short.

When that mouthful of a phrase was coined decades years ago, it was pretty easy to identify what was a multichannel distributor — any cable or satellite company — and just as important, what wasn’t. But the Internet is changing that — so profoundly, in fact, that the Federal Communications Commission is now rethinking even the definition of the word “channel.”<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>TV News Check: FCC Needs To Give OVDs MPVD Status</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If the networks, syndicators and other copyright holders had their way, the compulsory license would never be extended to OVDs.

However, I believe it would be in the best interest of stations (and ultimately the networks) if the compulsory license were extended to OVDs as long as they are governed as MVPDs.

Story continues after the ad

And the first step is the Sky Angel proceeding.

If the FCC legitimizes OVDs by declaring them MVPDs, the OVDs should be able to make a solid argument at the Copyright Office or in court that they are deserving of the compulsory license. If they are going to behave like a cable system, they should have the full benefits of a cable system.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title>USA Today: TV stations explore broadcasting to phone, tablets</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[New ventures Syncbak, Dyle, Mobile500 and Aereo are among those aiming their mobile digital TV technology at consumers who want to eliminate or reduce the cost of their cable or satellite subscriptions.

"It's watching TV in your car or on the train," says Colleen Brown, CEO of TV station owner Fisher Communications. "There will be a time when consumers don't care how they get TV."

Syncbak, a Marion, Iowa-based company, has partnered with 60 stations nationwide to pilot its technology that streams via a free app to iPhone, iPad and Android devices. "The only thing missing after Netflix and Hulu was live broadcast TV," Syncbak CEO Jack Perry says.<br /><small>Published using FREE <a href="http://www.hitrss.com/">HitRSS</a></small>]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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