CMP's Light Reading acquires cable digital news.Light Reading (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), an online information source for the telecommunications industry and a unit of CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Media and United Business Media, has acquired Cable Digital News (cabledigitalnews.com), an online publication that provides news and analysis of the cable industry's communications and entertainment services and infrastructure, from Kinetic kinetic /ki·net·ic/ (ki-net´ik) pertaining to or producing motion. ki·net·ic adj. Of, relating to, or produced by motion. kinetic pertaining to or producing motion. Strategies (Phoenix, AZ), a provider of research and analysis in the broadband market. No terms of the deal were given. The Cable Digital news web site provides analysis and commentary of broadband strategies, trends and industry companies and players, and attracts a readership of over 20,000 unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. a month, including professionals who work in the cable/MSO industry. The site has more than 100,000 page views per month and its weekly newsletter is sent to almost 8700 industry executives. The acquired site will be integrated into the Light Reading's network and the circulation for its newsletter will be increased to over 10,000. Traffic on the site is expected to increase to approximately 250,000 page views per month. Light Reading said the purchase will allow it to cover the evolution and convergence of all IP-based communications networks The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. and services. Specifically, the deal expands Light Reading's coverage of MSOs and cable networking technology. Established in 2000, Light Reading offers technology and financial analysis of the telecommunications and enterprise networking The networking infrastructure in a large enterprise with multiple computer systems and networks of different types is extraordinarily complex. Due to the myriad of interfaces that are required, much of what goes on has little to do with the real data processing of the payroll and orders. industries. It was acquired by United Business Media in 2005. |
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