Erik Huggers and the Intel Media should feel great about their accomplishments. It all makes so much sense.Ĭonsumers care about the content first, where they get it second. It had one channel guide for live, over the top, premium movies, and recorded TV and was very responsive. It was fast, real fast in changing live TV content, rewinding, skipping forward… everything was fast. In the past, I have tested literally 50 different connected TV devices going all the way back to NTSC converters from a PC to TV on up through Roku, Apple TV and the Xbox One. It’s slow and noisy, it’s hard to find content and there certainly aren’t any convenient linkages to Netflix or Hulu+.Ī few months back, I got an exclusive opportunity to test the device and service now known as OnCue. Today, if consumers want live TV, they need to subscribe to inflexible content packages and use hardware that looks and acts as if it were architected in the 90’s. Today it stinks, plain as that, and everyone knows it. While I am disappointed that Intel didn’t take this fully to market, I do believe this could be a huge opportunity for Verizon if they play their cards right.įirst of all, there is a market need for big change in TV content. Contact him at Please support his work and that of other Oklahoman journalists by purchasing a subscription today at Verizon and Intel announced that Verizon will purchase the assets of Intel Media, the group that created what was disclosed today as the “OnCue” set top box and services. Staff writer Steve Lackmeyer is a 31-year reporter, columnist and author who covers downtown Oklahoma City, related urban development and economics for The Oklahoman. The resulting intersection will result in a more traditional four-way signalized intersection at the entrance to the new station. The building permit shows the company is working with the city to remove a one-lane southbound slip lane along Western Avenue that currently intersects with Classen Boulevard and NW 13. The company also addressed traffic concerns by agreeing to help pay for changes to the intersection. OnCue tore down another home deemed to be beyond repair and assisted in selling and helping move the third home to an empty lot near the Plaza District. The station at NW 13 and Western was protested by preservationists over concerns three historic homes on the corner would be destroyed to make way for the station. “We had absolutely no interest in tearing the property down.” “We got a flyer from Mark Inman with CBRE - the building was already torn down,” Griffith said. In a 2020 interview with The Oklahoman, Jim Griffth, CEO of OnCue, said the company had no involvement in the demolition. OnCue purchased the property one year after the demolition. The area is referred to as the Founders district. The football-shaped structure, built in 1964, was anchored by two 50-foot exterior arches and was a part of an area once home to several of the city’s most notable examples of mid-century architecture, including Founders Tower. The demolition came as a surprise with crews starting tear down the same morning the demolition permit was filed at City Hall. Preservationists protested when a Dallas development group destroyed the former Founders National Bank building at 5613 N May. In the past two years the market has seen 7-Eleven sell to the national 7-Eleven operator, an aggressive expansion of Casey’s General Stores that included new construction and the purchase of Circle K stores, and most recently plans by QuikTrip to open two travel centers at Interstate 35 and Hefner Road and along I-35 in Moore.īoth of the new OnCue sites were once subject to some controversy. The expansion introduced a larger and more expansive convenience store offering to the city at a time when similarly operated QuikTrip did not enter Oklahoma City as part of an agreement with then locally owned 7-Eleven. ![]() OnCue, based in Stillwater, has 75 locations with dozens built in the last 20 years in Oklahoma City. The Western Avenue store, however, will have reduced signage and an earlier closing on the drive-through as part of an agreement with neighbors. is shown in this rendering.īoth stores are the same size with OnCue grills and drive-throughs.
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