By anyone's estimation, it's been a rocky couple of years for the premium cable outlet and one-time critical tastemaker.
Then came premium cable channels and satellite radio, which blazed early trails in the frontier of media subscription models.
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It was the first NHL documentary ever aired by the premium cable network.
The president of one premium cable outlet told me last summer the project just didn't make any financial sense.
There are many companies fighting for these agreements in the streaming world, many more in premium cable, and dozens more from basic cable networks.
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Time Warner faces risks especially because of its notable dependence on premium cable network HBO that boasts of new movie releases and original programming.
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By the same token, the streaming service further threatens the model on which premium cable is built, no doubt cause for worry at outlets like Showtime.
When David Nevins took over as chief of entertainment at Showtime last summer, the premium cable network was hardly in the kind of shambles an executive shake-up typically entails.
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One more loss, and Hopkins could find title fights and premium cable network bouts dry up as a new generation of fighters like fellow Philadelphian Danny Garcia take charge.
They are annoyed by high-priced premium cable channels like HBO and Showtime, which carry one or two extremely good shows per cycle, but never enough to make the channel completely worth the subscription.
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Netflix streaming has current content deals that provide it with access to movie content during the premium cable TV window, and Amazon has the financial resources to secure additional streaming rights, including Starz content.
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SiloconDust let us kown that it would be the first to certify a live TV tuner as a DLNA Digital Media Server, easily enabling premium cable TV to more devices with its existing HDHomeRun Prime network CableCARD tuner.
The criminal underworld and inter-generational conflict of The Sopranos is to be beamed to mobile phones, following Cingular Wireless ' announcement Thursday that it has inked an exclusive multi-year deal with premium cable TV network HBO to send video clips of hit television shows to mobile phones.
Ms. Fuentes declined to comment on the reason for the shift, but Showtime's chief executive, Matt Blank, indicated in an interview with Crain's New York that the move is a response to the emerging competitive threat posed by Netflix to premium cable networks, such as Showtime and Time Warner Inc.
Mr. Weiner, age 47, has so often told of his struggles to get "Mad Men" made that he no longer enjoys recounting the story. (The premium cable channels HBO, home to "The Sopranos, " and Showtime passed on the project before it was picked up by AMC, which had never aired a scripted drama series.) But he retains a sense of humor about the process.
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During Watchathon Week, Xfinity TV customers will have access to more than 3, 500 episodes of 100 TV series across 30 premium, cable and broadcast networks.
The most likely outcome: a permanent stratification of Internet access into full-service, low-budget and no-cost tiers, similar to premium and basic cable.
Apple and the cable companies premium paid model may prove less popular with consumers than the free ad-supported model.
In fact, these original series are even eligible for Primetime Emmy awards thanks to a recent rule change allowing broadband programming to be nominated alongside any broadcast, cable or premium network show.
But you are also getting a call option on the possibility that Viacom will sell a lot of premium services to its cable subscribers, using fiber-optic cable it has already laid in the ground.
With the abundance of reality series taking over both prime-time lineups and Nielsen ratings over the last decade, more and more people have begun turning to cable and premium networks to get their scripted television fix.
The headphones come with a fabric-covered detachable cable and a premium case.
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The ability to stream full movies and concerts on the PS3 and PS Vita systems is included as part of the EPIX premium subscription service available through cable, satellite and telco distributors.
He was lobbying U.S. senators to approve a plan that would prevent telephone and cable companies from collecting premium fees from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
Service expansion like cable and satellite was funded by premium subscription fees.
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The company could, for example, start offering an a-la-carte service, on a premium tier to customers, pitting it against traditional cable companies.
Other parents are more generous: In October Tyco said it would pay a 52% premium for the 11% stake in its undersea cable unit, Tycom, that had been sold to the public.
Kazim likens the model to cable TV, where subscribers can opt for premium channels.
Cable--both ad-supported and premium--now accounts for more than 55% of television viewership, up from only 10% in the early 1980s.
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