But his first attempt at televised showmanship was crude -- a cheap cable-access show in Norwalk, Connecticut.
But his first attempt at televised showmanship was crude, to say the least -- a cable-access show in Norwalk, Conn.
" Adds Nomeriano dela Cruz, vice-president for information technology at Manila's University of the East, one of Destiny's big cable-access customers: "This is the future.
More than 200 million households in China have cable-television access, according to analysts, but relatively few subscribe to premium services.
Ironically, it was concern by AOL that it would be shut out of high-speed, broadband internet services that led it to advocate "open-access" to cable systems - before it decided to buy Time Warner to assure its access to such services.
The biggest growth area for cable is in high-speed Internet access market, of which cable holds two-thirds (DSL has about one-third and is trending lower).
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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Bill Gates has a long history of making investments in cable companies with the hopes that it will secure Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) software a significant role in the technology used for high-speed Internet access and for cable set-top boxes that deliver interactive TV.
Higher ratings translate into more advertising revenue, even though Comcast gets two-thirds of its revenue as a cable-TV and Internet access provider.
Yet for a party with such close ties to Hollywood, their efforts at adding TV gloss to their stage show have been strictly public-access cable.
Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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The five-year-old firm, a cable-TV operator with about 30, 000 Manila customers, began offering Internet-over-cable in July as an alternative to conventional dial-up access.
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.
According to Morgan Stanley, 91% of cable-ready homes in the U.S. have access to advanced services, and the National Cable and Communications Association says that more than a third of U.S. cable customers subscribe to digital cable.
Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
With networks of wire already running into homes all over the country, cable companies can now deliver high-speed internet access.
Connect this model to a home broadband network via Wi-Fi or Ethernet cable and consumers can access a wide array of content providers on the Sony Entertainment Network.
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Cable operators are still enjoying growth in their Internet-access broadband business.
It has moved fastest in Mumbai, where it has laid 150 km of fibre-optic cable and is now offering speedy Internet access to the first of its 1.9m customers in the city.
But the marriage quickly soured, with Olbermann complaining about the cheesiness of the facilities ("a daily logistical nightmare" that "more closely resembles cable access, " according to an e-mail from his rep) and management complaining about temper tantrums, a mug-throwing incident and days off.
Additional growth opportunities for Televisa lie in "triple-play" packages of cable, telephone and Internet access.
With 55 percent of all U.S. households beholden to a single, fixed-line provider of broadband access (mostly cable modem service), the Commission should consider how each of its rules affects broadband investment.
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All users within a couple of hundred feet of the base station who have an inexpensive Wi-Fi device in their PCs or PDAs can then share low-cost, high-speed access to the Internet--without having to pay individually for more expensive dedicated DSL or cable modem service.
They point out that only around half of America's cable systems are modern enough to offer consumers high-speed Internet access.
Access to private high-speed Internet networks through cable and telephone companies was pretty limited.
Nuance has licensed and will be integrating Rovi's rich entertainment data with Dragon TV to provide TV manufacturers and cable service providers the ability to access the wide variety of Rovi-indexed content for TV shows, movies and cast and crew details just by speaking.
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Thanks to this deal, Sprint is now well positioned to access content from some of the biggest and most popular cable-television networks, as well as from the cable operators' parent companies, including media giant Time Warner.
That sort of unbundling will take a while, due to a Byzantine system of contracts, so in the meantime, cable companies can embrace alternative methods of distribution by pushing high-speed internet access, as the Time Warner president said in the article.
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And cable is widely held to be the best way of delivering high-speed Internet access, and with it the whole of the digital future.
Then came premium networks, and tiers of service, and pay-per-view, and internet access... and today, cable operators are selling everything from phone service to interactive gaming.
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