Since Mr Baker was last in charge of Sky One there has been a proliferation of satellite, digital and cable entertainment channels, including BBC Three, Channel 4's E4 and ITV2.
The DCP601 Home Entertainment System, a high-end digital cable ready entertainment receiverMotorola Ojo Personal Video Phone with a high-definition decoder, 6.1 channel surround sound, and a built-in progressive scan DVD player.
Broadcast, they seem to think, will be better stitched into other products, like cable and Internet entertainment.
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Silverman's two-year tenure, while Gaspin's entertainment cable empire--including top-rated USA Network, Bravo, Oxygen and Sci Fi--has seen ratings and revenue soar.
Most of the credit for those numbers goes to Jeffrey Gaspin, 47, the boyish-looking head of all the company's entertainment cable channels--USA Network, Bravo, Sci Fi and Oxygen.
But Cablevision bought the satellite service, or spectrum, years ago, as it was trying to transform itself from a mere cable company into an entertainment conglomerate.
"Our subscribers look to us to provide them with the best entertainment from cable and the web together in one place, " saidTara Maitra, SVP, Content and Media Sales for TiVo.
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According to the management, newspaper print advertising sales declined in Q3 2010 from decreased advertising from healthcare, live entertainment industry and cable companies when compared with Q3 2009.
Comcast is the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a major motion picture company and theme parks.
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Mr. Johnson is the founder of Black Entertainment Television, a cable network he sold to Viacom Inc.
Telecoms firms are in trouble because their fixed-line business is shrinking, and because their cable rivals are beating them in entertainment while getting stronger in telephony.
That's more viewers and a higher demo rating than any show on the major broadcast networks last night and ranks as cable's most-watched entertainment telecast this year.
Moreover, their entertainment offerings which include cable, the production and distribution of news, sports and other content, in addition to the NBC Universal franchise which include theme parks offer numerous avenues for potential growth.
Cablevision spun off MSG to separate its cash-rich cable businesses from its more financially volatile entertainment properties.
Setting his sights still higher, he's in the very early stages of launching a new cable network with talent agency CAA and entertainment giant AEG.
Whatever investors Carl Ichan and SK Telecom, both among the bidders in the bankruptcy proceedings, may have had planned for Blockbuster, its merger with Dish will provide some notable competition to entertainment providers like Netflix and cable services like Time Warner and Comcast.
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It is devoted to television and entertainment in a way that the cable companies, with their primary interest in telecoms, never can be.
Synacor is a cloud based television services provider and its platform enables cable, satellite and telecom companies to deliver entertainment services and apps to their subscribers.
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When David Nevins took over as chief of entertainment at Showtime last summer, the premium cable network was hardly in the kind of shambles an executive shake-up typically entails.
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Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal.
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With a VESA mount, you can hang it in your bedroom and use Windows Media Center to pull in content from your main PC or even plug in a digital cable tuner and use it as a stand-alone entertainment system.
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This is bad for the entertainment companies and completely neutral to good for the cable and satellite companies.
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Buy broadcasting, a sort of consumer staple, across the board: radio (Chancellor Media, 53, AMFM), cable (Cablevision, 70, CVC) and the prime entertainment conglomerate, Time Warner (73, TWX).
And if and when the company does go public, the arrangement could bring about further headaches for cable companies who rely on paying subscribers, and thus the entertainment industry at large.
ConnecTV is the biggest social network designed specifically for TV fans-a "second screen" companion entertainment experience that complements the video programming delivered from Cable, Satellite, Telecom, Over-the-Air or On-Line Service providers.
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Comcast is principally involved in the operation of cable systems through Comcast Cable Communications and in the development, production and distribution of entertainment, news, sports and other content for global audiences through NBCUniversal.
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Without cable, I would be forced to be more conscious about my entertainment choices, and I bet those choices would then be of better quality.
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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Malone, the cable billionaire, to try to buy back the U.S. entertainment assets and give them another go.
The spread of programming through cable and satellite broadcasting has widened the available universe of athletic and other entertainment events.
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