Comcast, Charter unfurl ITV resolutions for 2003.(Comcast Corp., Charter Communications Inc.)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, October, 2002 by Applebaum, Simon

NEW YORK -- Comcast Corp. used last week's Kagan Interactive TV Summit here to detail the first stage of its long-delayed movement into ITV, while Charter Communications Inc., previewed its second act in that arena. A year ago, Comcast executives promised that 2002 would be its ITV coming-out party.

But the Philadelphia-based MSO delayed its entry, due to a longer time frame for major-market video-on-demand rollouts and its move to acquire AT&T Broadband. At the Kagan confab, Comcast chief software architect Jean-Pol Zundel assured attendees that VOD was on track, the AT&T Broadband acquisition was near completion -- and interactive services would ramp up in 2003. "It's going to he this game plan: Crawl, walk, run," Zundel said, "We will start...

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