Speaking of " authenticated" cable and satellite subscribers, the broadcaster also updated the free Fox Now second screen apps on iOS and Android, adding access to stream full episodes of its TV shows wherever you are -- as long as you have a membership with a participating provider.

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With 19 state-of-the-art satellite dishes, the faith-based and family-themed broadcaster can download more than 50 cable-television channels and deliver them potentially to hundreds of thousands of customers nationwide.

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In Britain, says David Brennan, who heads research in the country for Flextech, a broadcaster, children in homes with cable or satellite television now spend two-thirds of their viewing time watching something other than the over-the-air networks, compared with just over one-third for adults.

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Nothing doing, says National Association of Broadcaster spokesman Dennis Wharton, who argues that cable operators are trying to avoid carrying the new "multicasted" digital channels from local broadcasters.

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The moment a broadcaster stops transmitting a signal, it loses its cable channel.

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RAI, Italy's national broadcaster, to Latin America, mainly to be distributed by local cable channels.

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The hottest market is India, where the combination of a staid state broadcaster with a free-to-air monopoly and fierce competition among cable and satellite companies has boosted pay-TV.

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