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Outage hits Time Warner Hawaii subs during World Series; Mayweather-Ortiz generates 1.25M PPV buys

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> Time Warner Oceanic subscribers in Hawaii lost TV service for about 20 minutes during Game 6 of the baseball's World Series because of a power supply problem. Article

> The Floyd Mayweather-Victor Ortiz fight generated 1.25 million pay-per-view buys and $78.44 million in domestic PPV revenue. Article

> Universal Electronics said it struck a deal with hotel pay-per-view distributor LodgeNet Interactive to supply the company with its Velocity Remote Control, which contains a QWERTY keyboard. News release

> Increased deployments by pay TV distributors in the U.S. and Europe of video gateways will see the market for gateway devices jump from less than 700,000 units in 2010 to more than 10 million in 2016, ABI Research predicts. News release

And finally ... Boosting the amount of content it'll be able to offer through its new Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon struck a broad licensing deal with Disney-ABC Television Group that gives it rights to Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Phineas & Ferb and other hit series. News release


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