For example, as the vice president of marketing for a major cable television operator, my marketing plan relied on our engineering division making major upgrades to our cable systems.
Another issue that investigators have asked about is whether cable companies are acting anticompetitively by making viewers have a cable subscription before being able to access certain online programming.
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Rather than continue to fight a losing battle to replace the cable box, the company refocused on making it iPod-simple to watch shows across all of its devices.
Ivi says it is just acting like a cable company, even making royalty payments to the U.S. Copyright Office.
Indeed, the regulators worry that programme-making cable companies, which are obliged to make their programming available to their competitors, are loading system costs on to their production arms, thereby passing them on to satellite broadcasters and other cable operators.
The cable companies are too entrenched and making too much money to risk disrupting their gravy train.
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The queen of daytime TV is making a tough transition away from network to cable.
Wolk goes so far as to suggest that cable providers will focus on making tablets their main hardware presence in the living room instead of leaning on set-top boxes.
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Part of that is going to be through initiatives like Six Strikes, but it also may come through making HBO shows easier to get for non-cable subscribers.
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Owning a distribution channel, whether satellite or cable, guarantees an outlet for your content, making it easier to launch new networks, and fortifies your bargaining power over carriage rights.
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One way or another, the NFL and the major cable players will come to see that hey need each other, making compromise inevitable.
After two and a half decades as a popular talk-show host, Winfrey will be making the risky transition from daytime leader to network co-owner and cable host come 2011.
The revised cabling setup allows 3.5mm cables to plug directly into the headsets, making for easier replacements and swapping (previous versions had you connect to a short cable hung from the earcup, with a dual-pole connector).
On many cable systems, the former Discovery Health dwells in the channel wilderness, making it hard for viewers to find, to the point that Winfrey herself has resorted to begging viewers to tune in.
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Then add to the mix cable news and the explosion of political publications online and you have the making of the new viral American politics.
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