If the NFL were run on these principles, of course, and offered such a shoddy product, their stadiums would be empty, no one would watch on television and the TV contracts would be canceled, along with the sponsorship deals.
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Saturday evening also saw an anticipated 700 million people watch state television's annual TV gala, a variety performance show in which Celine Dion sang her theme tune from the movie Titanic.
Pivot has identified two main groups within its prospective audience: cable TV subscribers who watch "television" across multiple platforms, and viewers who subscribe only to broadband.
"Those who are sick may wish to watch the Sunday TV Mass on their television at home and pray in solidarity with their parish community, " the statement said.
"Our customers have been asking us for two things: HD and the ability to watch movies and TV shows instantly on their television, " said Bill Carr, Amazon vice president Music and Video.
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Because the XPS One, made by Asustek of Taiwan, has a built-in television receiver that makes it as easy to watch and record cable TV as to surf the Web and download videos from YouTube--finally delivering on the long-awaited prophecy of TV-PC-Internet convergence.
Netflix said that starting with films released in theaters in 2016, new films from Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and Disneynature will be made available for Netflix members to watch instantly in the pay TV window on multiple platforms, including television, tablets, computers and mobile phones.
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The system will allow Android smartphone applications to be displayed on television screens and such integration as being able to watch a show on TV and a Twitter stream of people talking about that show at the same time.
Okay, okay, the transparent TV was neat, but will it actually change the way we watch television?
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To appease the crowd of headline-hungry journalists at the Television Critics Association semi-annual TV confab and the 26 million viewers who regularly watch Abdul's top-rated series American Idol, the two men and their team have spent the 36 hours since the famously loopy host announced her departure via Twitter seeking alternatives.
TVGuide.com's Online Video Guide allows users to watch virtually any and every available full-length TV episode from all the major broadcast and cable television networks.
It also found that TV no longer reigns as the supreme screen and that some 77% of viewers watch television with another device in hand.
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Just under 10 million homes now have a flatscreen TV capable of receiving HD broadcasts but most don't have the receiver or subscription needed to watch television in the new format.
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