Satellite and conventional over-the-air broadcasting will remain the primary high-def program sources until cable operators decide to carry high-def content and Hollywood delivers prerecorded HD cassettes or discs.
This is according to a Twitter update from Kurtz, who also hosts the cable news program.
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Bailey produces "A Family For Me, " a cable TV program that showcases tough-to-adopt cases, like 13-year-old Joel.
On April 23rd Mr. Bob Beckel in his remark on the Fox Cable News program, The Five, criticized the silent Moslems who do not stand up and oppose terrorism.
The premise is simple: a behind the scenes look inside a national cable news program that has declared an end to histrionics and partisan commentary that ginned gin up ratings.
The Cowboys played in both the most watched network program and most watched basic cable show of the 2011 fall television season.
The two BCS National Championship Games on ESPN (2011, 2012) have generated the two largest audiences for any program in the history of cable television.
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And almost every award went to either a low-rated broadcast program or a show from cable, where audiences typically are limited to just a few million.
This business stucture makes sense for Battlestar, Saturday Night Live, and 30 Rock, all shows that do well in syndication, but what is the point of offering a show like Party Down, a half-hour comedy program produced by the Starz cable network, to viewers via a web stream through Netflix the same week that a new episode airs on TV?
Google TV has not been a game-changer, and The TV offerings of the Fiber program are far from being a cable killer, yet, but Google is betting that transcendent internet speeds will trump the raw channel count for many users.
Intel's participation in Comcast's Reference Design Kit program is also referenced, although given Big Cable's traditional reluctance regarding alternative delivery models, any sort of tie-in here seems like a long shot to us.
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Imagine downloading a TNT program application directly from Turner rather than paying a cable company for access to Turner content.
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The FCC also pointed out that approximately 30 cable-affiliated, national networks and 14 cable-affiliated RSNs are subject to program-access merger conditions adopted in the Comcast-NBCU Order until January 2018.
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Rhodes-Hughes recounted the Kennedy shooting and her initial contact with Melanson in a 1992 interview on "Contact, " a local TV program carried at the time in Vancouver by Rogers Cable.
The TX-NR807 also includes Onkyo's new Bi-Directional Preprogrammed RI Remote Control which will impress anyone who has ever been frustrated by the trial-and-error manual data inputs and paper listings usually needed to program associated TV's, disc players, cable boxes, and other components.
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In addition, satellite TV providers like DirecTV and Dish Network continue to lag the cable TV companies in their ability to offset program cost increases by selling their customers increasingly faster broadband services, per The Wall Street Journal.
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Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) is working on a service called "Start Over" that will allow digital cable subscribers to press a button and restart any program already underway from its beginning.
They advertised on cable, not broadcast TV, and built an outreach program with volunteers, not paid workers.
The economics of TV have forced program quality down, news is now universally available online, and cable TV bills keep rising as the value I place on television has crashed.
Someone watching a cable series at a friend's house can finish the program at home or on their mobile device, schedule their DVR to record an episode, even record the full season, just by sampling the screen for a second or two.
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The platform synchronizes social engagement, complementary content and program promotions with television programming from any source, in any market across national cable networks, regional sports networks and local stations affiliated with ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CW and MyNetworkTV.
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Of course, since it's a DVR, you can actually add more clients than tuners and have them play back recorded content while your other boxes use the tuners -- Intel was demoing XBMC on a Sony laptop connecting over DLNA and streaming a recorded program while a PS3 nearby ran a photo slideshow, all while the three cable clients streamed uncompressed HD video from the tuners.
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Compaq also announced its new Triple Play broadband Internet access program, which offers customers a choice of three high-speed Net access options: cable modem, DSL, and satellite.
Finally, there's some hope that the CE and cable industry can actually work together, as seen in Comcast's RDK program that's pushing the development of this box and others (like that Humax box we spotted floating through the FCC) with similar capabilities.
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There's a new President at 1600 Pennsylvania, and with that comes a new FCC -- we take time to give our two cents on the poorly-implemented DTV converter box coupon program, crazy notions of delaying the DTV transition and tinfoil-hat talk of the cable monopoly.
At the time there seemed little chance of Apple ever approving the cable except for specific use cases where the cable and an accompanying iOS application were approved together as part of the MFi program exactly as Apple had for Skywire for telescopes and Cisco had for networking gear.
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By downloading only what's necessary at the moment, the client overcomes the Blu-ray program size restriction and delivers what customers have already come to expect from leading Korean IPTV and cable companies using the software in their STBs.
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By styling its case as a program-carriage complaint, however, the NFL Network took advantage of cognizable harms under the Cable Act such as preserving independent voices that, for better or worse, are not appreciated by the antitrust laws.
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Time Warner Cable is joining with the Coalition for Science After School and FIRST Robotics -- the program created by inventor Dean Kamen, which gave us the "Cougar Cannon" -- to connect one million students with fun after-school activities, like robotics competitions.
Digital cable offers customers far more channels to watch than standard cable--typically in the hundreds-- and gives them an interactive on-screen program schedule.
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