According to Morgan Stanley, 91% of cable-ready homes in the U.S. have access to advanced services, and the National Cable and Communications Association says that more than a third of U.S. cable customers subscribe to digital cable.
If the Court rules that the 9th Circuit was wrong, the FCC was right, and cable is an information service, it would keep cable networks completely closed to outside ISPs, assuring that cable operators are able to continue to benefit from that revenue.
While the two operate on different terms--in addition to cable's dual revenue streams (advertising dollars and subscription fees) as opposed to broadcast's singular ad-supported model, cable has far fewer programming hours to fill and less fare to promote--broadcasters would be wise to consider four of cable's best practices.
Even if it were to extend that to analogue cable, too, this would still exclude the nearly 100m Americans who do not subscribe to cable.
The blueprint is already established: In 1992, Congress amended the Cable Act to protect independent cable networks against discrimination by vertically integrated cable operators.
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Another element that might concern some companies, according to Cable Digital News, is a "monitor application" that the cable company uses to control how devices use processing resources.
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As a first step, rather than tying the development of the undersea cable to any particular renewable energy project (or type of renewable energy), the EIS is taking a programmatic approach, which would enable the cable to move forward irrespective of any particular energy project receiving approval.
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Among other things, she does foresee a future in which the top 10 cable networks (think USA, as opposed to niche cable outlets like Oxygen) have developed an intra-cable syndication market for shows they can then sell to smaller networks.
And a new standard called D-CAS for downloadable conditional access, which Samsung was first to sign up with, will let any properly configured TV, PC or consumer electronics device link directly to local cable to grab services.
Ivi tried to argue it was a cable-TV network for the purposes of these retransmission rights, because an exception to the Copyright Act gives cable operators the right to retransmit if they pay fees set by the Copyright Royalty Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.
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Today's boxes provide little interactivity, but cable providers are upgrading customers to digital cable as fast as they can.
Third, even if you have a single basestation, you still have to have a cable to it somewhere, if only to access the Internet.
The rationale, according to National Cable and Television Association spokesman Brian Dietz, is that neither customers nor cable companies should have to pay for new set top boxes to maintain service.
Although I have been critical of certain cable practices, it is a step too far to suggest that cable companies should be subject to price regulation or government-subsidized overbuilding because they invested in neighborhoods where no else has been willing to follow.
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Rogers decided to enter the cable business in 1974, becoming the first cable company in Canada to expand past 12 channels.
Fiber optic cable is not vulnerable to EMP, but the switches and controls that use microelectronics in conjunction with the fiber optic cable need to be protected.
Some cable programmers argued that the FCC's order would make it harder for them to gain access to cable systems if both analog and digital signals of local stations had to be offered.
Broadcasters are frequently in battles with cable and satellite operators, looking to extract monthly fees from the cable and satellite operators to carry their channels.
Meantime a billboard and radio campaign urges customers to lobby cable operators to carry the channel.
Brand X started talking to cable companies about reselling their cable modem lines as well, but didn't get very far.
Such popularity gave Ledford the confidence to develop a full-time, ad-supported network and to persuade cable companies to pay to carry it.
The dungeon was further kitted out with a chair, a television, and what appeared to be cable access to the internet, officers said.
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State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said department staff did what they were supposed to by sending a cable to the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington about the matter.
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Meanwhile, the National Association of Counties, which represents two-thirds of the nation's counties, passed a motion last week asserting the right of local governments to require cable companies to provide open access.
Designed for easy setup and use, PLAYBAR connects to the TV with a single optical cable, playing everything that is connected to it, including cable boxes, Blu-ray players and game consoles.
If the recent ad revenue improvement for cable channels is actually a result of ad dollars shifting from broadcast to cable networks, Viacom stands to see greater benefit than some of its competitors.
By enabling cable subscribers to jump ship without even notifying their cable company, that's how.
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Generic cable boxes lack a view to the Web, and Web-centric set-tops from Apple and Google lack a view to cable.
Using a DisplayLink USB graphics chip, we only had to plug in an USB cable to instantly connect the external screen, once the driver was installed.
These are the sorts of content partnerships Marc is actively pursuing for the console, but when prompted to weigh in on the recent buzz surrounding HBO keeping Go restricted to cable subscribers, he chose to stay diplomatic.
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