He writes virtually every show himself and has kept it interesting, maintaining his status as the top-rated cable anchor for more than a decade, he said.

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The job for the broadcast status quo, which includes the cable and satellite companies, is to provide the easiest, most seamless and pleasurable device experience they can to their existing customers so that they will entropically stick around as the world changes around them.

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The result: The status quo remains, says Lehman Brothers cable analyst Lara Warner.

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Cable companies are not perfectly rational actors, they are often sclerotic bureaucracies strongly biased toward the status quo and large content companies.

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Mr Cable has been consulting on how the current annual votes on pay, which have only advisory status, could be replaced by votes with mandatory force.

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