Surprise -- Charter's Really a Streaming Bull.(Charter Communications Inc. makes deal to allow streaming)(Company Profile)
Multichannel News, June, 2001 by DONOHUE, STEVE
While Charter Communications Inc. battles ESPN in the cable industry's first operator-programmer tiff over streaming video, another groundbreaking move the MSO made in that regard more than two months ago has gone largely unnoticed. In late March, Charter announced a software deal with Liberate Technologies Inc.
that would integrate Real Networks Inc.' RealPlayer into Motorola Inc./Liberate set-tops. Real said it's the company's first deal involving a cable MSO and a set-top box manufacturer. And it follows a similar arrangement that brings Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player to future Motorola DCT-5000 series set-tops. So even during its game of hardball with ESPN over streaming, Charter has passed its MSO brethren in terms of building...
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