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The complaint, which was filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), says that Cablevision is not selling high-definition (HD) programming from its Madison Square Garden Network to the telecommunications company for broadcast on its FiOS service. Cablevision is currently making such programming available in standard-definition format.
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> Twitter Coming to Verizon FiOS?
New York based Verizon is currently testing a beta product that will allow their FiOS subscribers to see Twitter posts on their TV, according to The Wall Street Journal. The service would show a stream of real time Twitter posts related to the show they are watching.
The Wall Street Journal
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> Verizon To Offer 7 MB Internet Access to NY Customers
> Verizon Adds News HD Channels to FiOS
Today Verizon announced that it has reached a deal with Stamford, Connecticut based Frontier Communications Corp. which will sell its phone service in more rural parts of the country. Frontier will now have 4.8 million phones lines and 1 million broadband connections to sell to residential and small businesses in areas such as Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, Idaho and West Virginia.
This sale does not affect Verizon customers in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut, as Verizon wants to concentrate rolling out its fiber optics and FiOS services to the tri-state area.
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> FiOS Coming to Central New York
> Verizon Considers FairPoint Bid For Landlines in New England
Verzion announced that it will be offering six new HD channels to its FiOS subscribers in the New York area and elsewhere. The channels, Comedy.TV, Recipe.TV, ES.TV, MyDestination.TV, Cars.TV and Pets.TV come from Entertainment Studios, an independent producer and distributor of first-run syndicated television programming.
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> YES Network Now Available to NY, NJ FiOS Customers
> New Verizon Local Cable Channel Coming to NYC
As a result of a new, multi-year video-on-demand agreement between Verizon and regional sports network YES Network, FiOS subscribers throughout NY and northern NJ will be able to access game coverage and other YES programming on demand.
In order to compete with local news channels like Time Warner Cable's NY1 and Cablevision's News 12, Verizon's FiOS is rolling out its own local news channel FiOS1 to New York City subscribers this summer. The channel will have traffic reports and weather every ten minutes and reports shot by citizen journalists. A professional news team has yet to be hired.
Local channels offered by Verizon in Maryland and Northern Virginia rank in the top 20% by viewers.
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> NJ Att'y General Sues Verizon for FIOS Marketing
> FiOS Coming to Central New York
The state's attorney general has alleged that Verizon has failed to provide the promotional gifts promised to subscribers to the service and charged higher prices than those quoted in advertisements, including previously unmentioned "activation fees."
Verizon's NJ president Dennis Bone responded in a statement that these allegations are based on actions that occurred during the initial rollout of the service in the state about two years ago and have since been addressed.
Regardless, the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs has set up a FiOS complaint form and survey on its Web site at http://njConsumerAffairs.gov/fios.htm.
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> FiOS Coming to Central New York
> FiOS Brings Web to TV in Upgrade
Verizon is planning to roll out its FiOS service to residents in the Town of Clay in Central New York. Once the company reaches an agreement with the Public Service Commission, it will begin to offer FiOS in the area. Currently, Time Warner Cable is the only cable operator in Central New York.
Verizon also has plans to roll out FiOS in Cicero, Lysander, Van Buren, Geddes, and Baldwinsville.
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> FiOS Brings Web to TV in Upgrade
> NYC FiOS TV Launch Credited for Verizon's Record Q4
New Yorkers with Verizon FiOS service will soon have a more integrated television and Web experience with Verizon planning to upgrade its TV widgets platform and open it up to third party developers. To start, FiOS will bring Facebook and Twitter to TV screens and give the DVR access to YouTube and other online video sites through an "Interactive Media Guide". The new Twitter widget sounds the most interesting. It will be able to find and show you conversations that are happening in real time about the show you are watching.
Verizon currently has widgets for weather, traffic, headlines, horoscopes, community information amd a sports Fantasy Football widget by ESPN.
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> Axe Effect Ad Runs on FiOS TV in NYC This Week
> NYC FiOS TV Launch Credited for Verizon's Record Q4
Cablevision will begin selling targeted television ads that will be seen by its customers in Brooklyn, The Bronx and parts of New Jersey. The company is working with New York-based Visible World to harness public demographic data for targeting households with ads that reflect their means. After an eight month test, Cablevision concluded that targeted ads were more successful at bringing in new subscriptions. NYConvergence should point out that publicly-available demographic data will allow Cablevision to skirt any concerns regarding targeting advertisements based on other, more private data they may collect.
Another New York-based ad targeting company Invidi is now working with Comcast and will soon work with Verizon to bring targeted ads to their cable subscribers. In addition to public data, Invidi uses TV viewing information from remote controls, ratings information and program guides to target households.
