Cox Communication News

After what was an apparently successful test run, Cox Communications in Rancho Santa Margarita has begun rolling out a special adapter for customers who prefer to record cable TV using a TiVo rather than a Cox recorder.

Cox Communications & TIO Networks: TIO Networks will provide real-time bill payment services to Cox Communications' customers, allowing them to pay their bills at TIO retail centers and self-service kiosks.

Cox Communications Inc. is funding a $76,000 technology grant for the Fundamental Learning Center , a nonprofit educational resource center.

Cox Communications now offers its residential and business services in Perry. The cable, Internet and phone service provider has secured a new franchise that allows it to offer its products to Perry residents and businesses, said Mary Bowman Huff, community and public relations manager for Cox.

Cox Business, a division of Cox Communications, has expanded the reach of its business video portfolio to include HD free-to-guest services for major national regional chains in all of its markets.

Cox Communications is expanding its business video portfolio to include high-definition free-to-guest services for major national and regional chains across all its markets, after initially offering HD feeds to Las Vegas casinos for the last several years.

Cox Communications has begun kicking the tires on dynamic ad insertion, joining forces with NBC Universal in a test designed to assess the value of refreshing select VOD spots.

The high-definition version of History International will launch on systems owned by Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Cox Communications this month.

Cox Communications received a special diversity award this month from DiversityInc recognizing it as the Top Company for Talent Pipeline.

A Glendale non-profit and Peoria non-profit were recently awarded grant funds from Cox Charities-the employee funded philanthropic arm of Cox Communications.

Topeka, Kan. _ Kids and parents learned about Internet safety at an event Saturday.

Attorney General Steve Six is partnering with Cox Communications and the Kansas Internet Crimes Against Children taskforce this week to educate and inform parents, guardians and children about the importance of safety.

Cox Communications has added six of NBC's primetime shows in high-definition to its MyPrimetime VOD service, which provides on-demand access to TV programs starting the day after they air.

Hugh Mercer Elementary School students are learning what it's like to be a hero from people who know: American veterans.

Cox Communications announced today that HD customers now have free access to many of NBC's hottest shows anytime, On Demand, in high-definition. The new HD content added to MyPrimetime in Cox's On DEMAND library includes episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Community, Parks and Recreation, Mercy and Heroes .

Orange County Health Care Agency holds vaccination clinic at Cox Communications.

Fiona Schlachter was hired as director of operations at CleanLaunch. CLEANLAUNCH: The clean- tech incubator hired Fiona Schlachter as its director of operations.

Cox Media, the advertising services division of Cox Communications, Inc., announced today that it has appointed Mike Zeigler to the position of vice president of operations.

Rembrandt IP Management LLC 's bid to squeeze royalties and license fees out of several major U.S. cable operators and cable modem vendors has failed, after a Delaware judge rejected Rembrandt's claims that the cable group was infringing on several data-over-cable technology patents.

Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. said Friday that its third-quarter net income rose 14 percent to $65.3 million, or 39 cents a share, compared $57.3 million, or 35 cents a share, in the same quarter last year.