Category Archives: Cable

One in eight to cut cable and satellite TV in 2010

By doris | Published: May 2, 2010

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Despite rising cable and satellite TV prices and easy access to streaming TV and movies on the Internet, few consumers have cut the cord. But that looks like it’s about to change. One in eight consumers will eliminate or scale back their cable, satellite or other pay-TV service [...]

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Why cable is going to cost you even more

By doris | Published: January 7, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com Your cable bill is going up this year — and next year, and the year after that — with no end in sight. The average digital cable customer already pays almost $75 a month, according to research firm Centris. And many subscribers pay more than $100 to tune in to everything [...]

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Cablevision drops Food, HGTV networks

By doris | Published: January 3, 2010

Full Story atmoney.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Cablevision Systems, a New York-area cable provider, said Friday it was no longer carrying The Food Channel and HGTV, two channels operated by Scripps Networks Interactive, in a dispute over distribution rights fees. “We are sorry that Scripps’ current financial difficulties are making it impossible for them to [...]

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Fox, Time Warner Cable reach agreement

By doris | Published: January 2, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Fox Networks and Time Warner Cable announced an agreement Friday that will avert the disruption of Fox network programming to 15 million subscribers of Time Warner Cable and an affiliated company. The agreement, the terms of which were not disclosed, was announced several hours after a midnight [...]

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Time Warner Cable, Fox negotiations near 11th hour

By doris | Published: December 25, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com “Oh, well…who cares what congress does, right? Time warner might not have fox programming anymore!!!!” said one Twitter user whose focus quickly switched from Thursday’s health care vote. The nation’s second largest cable provider is at odds with Fox’s parent company, News Corp., as well as the Weather Channel and Scripps [...]

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Antitrust chief hits resistance in crackdown

By doris | Published: July 27, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – President Obama’s top antitrust official and some senior Democratic lawmakers are preparing to rein in a host of major industries, including airline and railroad giants, moving so aggressively that they are finding some resistance from officials within the administration. The official, Christine A. Varney, the antitrust chief at the [...]

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Time Warner’s well-timed tax break

By doris | Published: June 2, 2009

Full Story At money.cnn.com NEW YORK (Fortune) — You don’t often get to use “Time Warner” and “hot stock” in the same sentence, given the company’s horrible investment performance over the years. But Time Warner’s pending deal to unburden itself of AOL by dumping it onto its shareholders is one of those times, thanks to [...]

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Soon, cable TV may start watching you

By doris | Published: April 8, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – You’re watching Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show,” when suddenly you see a commercial for the Mustang convertible you’ve been eyeing — with a special promotion from Ford, which knows you just ended your car lease. A button pops up on the screen. You click it with the remote and [...]

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