Last week, Time Warner Cable removed a number of channels from its app after their owners objected, and in some cases, sent cease and desist letters to the company.
America itself has a jock culture, as any look at the number of cable networks devoted to sports can attest.
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In Europe, even with old-fashioned analogue distribution, the number of cable and satellite channels is already doubling every three years.
While the merger will give Comcast unmatched control over media content for a cable provider, a number of net neutrality checks imposed on it will limit this advantage.
Intel says a number of cable companies are interested in deploying this stuff and that we should see things on the market in the next year -- we honestly can't wait.
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The coming switch from analogue to digital would liberate industries that had been constrained by the limit on the number of cable channels that can be bunged down a pipe, or the handful of broadcast channels that can fit into the airwaves allocated to television.
My reasons are many and include the fact that Clearwire is using a wireless technology that is not mainstream (WiMAX) on a portion of spectrum that requires building out many more cell sites than its competitors, and that it has chosen to enter major metro markets already served by wired DSL, cable, and a number of wireless broadband companies.
An advertising campaign featuring Olympic stars Mo Farah and Usain Bolt helped Virgin Media boost the number of new cable customers.
Comcast has a data cap of 250 GB for its cable modem customers and a number of ISPs are limiting the amount of data you can use every month.
Nick still gets 33% more viewers per day (1.6 million to 1.2 million for Disney), but Disney now is the number one basic cable channel in prime time among "tweens, " ages 9 to 14.
Time Warner Cable said last week that the number of Internet-only subscribers increased 28% from a year earlier.
In his book, he makes a number of the standard cable-news moves: he rages, he oversimplifies, he invents social categories so that he can vilify them.
George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, briefly returned to London during the conference for a summit with Alistair Darling, his opposite number, and Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman.
It also locked down a deal with Fox that covers local broadcasts, cable TV networks and brings a number of the network's shows to Xfinity streaming apps and services on other platforms.
Next year's launch of two new satellites into orbit should also help with bandwidth issues and allow the launch of new HD channels to compete with the large number currently carried by cable and competitor satellite company Dish.
Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ), the nation's largest cable company, added a record number of new high-speed users in its third quarter, leading to a 38% increase in broadband revenue from the same quarter a year ago.
Led by Comcast , Time Warner Cable, Vonage and Cablevision, the number of U.S. VoIP subscribers grew some 16% last quarter and more than doubled in the last year, according to a report from research firm TeleGeography.
Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 18 consecutive years.
With the growth of cable, satellite and digital media, the number both of media outlets and of owners has increased almost everywhere in America.
These various compressed formats then support the growing number of distribution channels from traditional cable, satellite, broadcast and digital cinema and increasingly are finding their way into various internet and cell phone network based distribution channels.
Oddly enough, the teen in question jacked the console and left the oh-so-critical power cable behind, but instead of devising yet another heist, he simply phoned Microsoft, gave out all his credentials (including the machine's serial number), and awaited the cable.
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Whereas most Americans used to get their news from the same three networks over dinner, or a few influential papers on Sunday morning, we now have the option to get our information from any number of blogs or websites or cable news shows.
In other news, Comcast reported its Q4 earnings, noting that while it still lost around 7, 000 cable TV customers in Q4, the total number of video, internet and phone subscribers rose by 503, 000 to a total of 51.3 million, up 3 percent from last year.
You can probably double that number when you include DVD sales, cable and television showings and the gobs of merchandise sold annually.
For satellite and cable music stations, as well as the burgeoning number of Web stations, royalty payments to both composers and artists are required.
There are significant economies of scale in using a few giant servers to hold subscribers' videos, and Moffett thinks the cable companies will expand their DVR offerings over a number of years.
Mr Verster, Route Managing Director for Network Rail, said there were a number of factors for the reduction in cable theft, including engineers developing cables that were harder to steal and easier to identify.
We can attribute this to a number of product improvement strategies that Time Warner Cable has employed in recent quarters.
And a growing number of early adapters are severing ties to cable altogether to rely on broadcast TV and Internet distributors, such as Netflix Inc.
There are roughly 100 million people in this country who subscribe to some kind of video service whether through cable, satellite or the telephone company, and that number is remaining steady despite the existence of alternative ways to watch TV like Hulu, Netflix, iTunes and Amazon.
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