Consider Larry the Cable Guy, who got his break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on Viacom 's Comedy Central.

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Consider Larry the Cable Guy, who got his break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on Viacom 's (nyse: VIA - news - people ) Comedy Central.

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After amassing a fortune from his property portfolio in the 1970s, he diversified his interests by setting up a TV cable company, Telemilano, and buying two other cable channels in an effort to break the national TV monopoly in Italy.

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Well, the Treasury and the Business Department concede that Vince Cable has been over-ruled on the break-up of Royal Bank of Scotland, which he argued for in the letter I disclosed yesterday.

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Consider stand-up acts like the Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, both of whom got their break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on the Viacom-owned Comedy Central channel.

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Consider stand-up acts like the Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, both of whom got their break on the Blue Collar Comedy tour and a subsequent series on the Viacom (nyse: VIA.B - news - people )-owned Comedy Central channel.

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Previous info indicated the service would focus more heavily on movies than the back catalog of TV shows that is a part of Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Prime Instant Video, and Bloomberg reports Redbox will break with their models by paying its content providers per subscriber cable TV-style, instead of a flat rate decided up front.

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Ideally, that machine would have no network connection (as it would be a prime break-in target), and be reported to via null-modem serial cable only.

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