Gemstar-TV Guide International signed deal with Charter Communica...
Gemstar-TV Guide International signed deal with Charter Communications to offer Gemstar’s interactive program guide (IPG) to Charter’s digital cable subscribers. Under 10-year pact, Charter will offer Gemstar’s advanced program guide to most of MSO’s digital customers in return for…
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share of guide’s national ad and TV commerce revenue and “certain considerations of value.” In conference call with reporters and analysts, Gemstar Co-Pres. Peter Boylan said Charter would receive “significant financial incentives” to deploy guide as widely as possible. Charter, which ended last year with slightly more than one million digital subscribers and planned to more than double that this year, was first of 5 biggest MSOs to sign deal with Gemstar. Despite his must-carry battle with AOL Time Warner and patent infringement suits against cable set-top makers and others, Gemstar Chmn. Henry Yuen said he was committed to negotiating carriage deals with MSOs and aimed to conclude other deals soon. Meanwhile, responding to Gemstar’s recent patent infringement complaints against EchoStar, Pioneer and Scientific-Atlanta, Pioneer said its companies “will vigorously defend themselves” and press their claims against Gemstar for alleged antitrust violations.