Comcast-NBC deal opens door to Web troubles
One company is the nation's biggest cable TV provider. The other owns a TV network, several popular cable channels and a movie studio.
One company is the nation's biggest cable TV provider. The other owns a TV network, several popular cable channels and a movie studio.
Telecom
Dec 16, 2010
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The three major broadcast networks, uneasy about viewers bypassing cable and satellite providers -- and the networks' own websites -- to watch their TV shows, have begun blocking a new service from Google Inc. that is designed ...
Telecom
Oct 22, 2010
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(AP) -- Watching online video and other content on a television screen typically means buying a special device such as an Apple TV, or plugging lots of wires into the right holes on the PCs and TVs. Cable TV provider Cablevision ...
Telecom
Feb 24, 2010
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(AP) -- For more than 60 years, TV stations have broadcast news, sports and entertainment for free and made their money by showing commercials. That might not work much longer.
Telecom
Dec 29, 2009
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(AP) -- Comcast Corp. announced Thursday it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal for $13.75 billion, giving the nation's largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock network, an array of cable channels and ...
Business
Dec 3, 2009
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(AP) -- Phone companies fear that customers will increasingly switch off their landlines in favor of wireless phones or phone service from cable TV providers. So the last thing FairPoint Communications Inc. needed was to ...
Telecom
Mar 12, 2009
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Cable and satellite TV providers are ringing in the new year with an unwelcomed gift: higher cable bills.
Telecom
Jan 5, 2018
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The hook of the latest internet TV service is a low price and no sports channels.
Telecom
Nov 14, 2017
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Senators scrutinizing the proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner homed in on brass tacks with the companies' CEOs. OK, you say this $85.4 billion mega-deal will enhance, not quash, competition and benefit consumers. Will ...
Telecom
Dec 7, 2016
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Very quietly, Charter Communications has been poking a toe into the online video streaming business.
Telecom
Nov 20, 2015
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