Telephone and cable TV services still belong to monopoly providers in most towns, but the airwaves are naturally conducive to competition.
Although Comcast's cable networks business benefits from higher distribution fees, those fees mean higher costs for Comcast because the company is also the nation's largest provider of cable TV services to homes.
Slim already offers cable TV services across Latin America through his wireless company America Movil, so unsuccessful efforts to do this in his own country continue to frustrate the telecom, mining and real-estate entrepreneur.
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Although Comcast's cable networks business benefits from higher distribution fees, those fees mean higher costs for Comcast because the company is also the nation's largest provider of cable-TV services to homes.
It owns the country's dominant radio network and the second-largest magazine group, plus cable and satellite TV services.
Cab fares would rise 4 percent while the cost of cable and satellite TV services, tickets for sporting events and movies would also jump by the same percentage.
Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, who said last month that if Aereo gets a legal OK to keep operating, he would consider changing the Fox network to a channel available only through cable and satellite TV services.
In broadband, demands on tuners are increasing as cable TV operators expand their services and as set-top boxes add more complex features.
While the upside is vast, Netflix must compete for this growing demographic with established cable and satellite operators that offer streaming and pay-TV services like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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The big idea here is to offer packages that bundle together cable TV, cable Internet, VoIP, and wireless services and offer them to subscribers at a price that would be less than signing up for each service individually.
She noted that Time Warner recently reached an agreement to open its cable TV lines to Juno Online Services.
Thanks to technology--primarily the Internet--the traditional differences between local and long-distance phone services, cable TV, satellite TV, radio and television are being obliterated.
Analysts expect Televisa will begin offering wireless services to its fast-growing cable TV customers.
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Indeed, Ms. Kaplan, the communications director, reported that African Services was recently contacted by a cable TV cooking show that wanted to do an African cooking segment.
New services like digital cable, high-definition TV, video-on-demand, and digital video recorders are proving extremely popular with customers.
Hastings is now betting that when all content streams to your TV and devices, users will abandon their cable services and Netflix will be just another on-demand channel.
News Corp. is a global media company with operations engaged in producing, acquiring, and licensing various operations in film, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite TV, integrated marketing services, newspapers, magazines and books publishing.
Authentication has been embraced by many players in the TV industry as a way to head off the possibility that consumers could begin dropping their cable and satellite TV subscriptions in favor of lower-cost online video services, such as Netflix Inc.
Going beyond the core set of TV services, the company may then look at providing other cable station in a live form.
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.
Broadcasters and cable TV providers including Sky, Virgin and BT are also increasingly offering on-demand services.
The decision could help companies like Netflix and Apple in their negotiations to add more programming to their online services, by undermining the oligopoly of the cable-television and satellite TV networks.
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Netflix is the online movie streaming company that competes with cable and satellite operators like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV for streaming and pay-TV services, as well as video rental services like Redbox.
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The giant incumbents in cable, telecom and direct satellite now push a triple play of services to consumers: TV, phone and Web access.
Then there is the growing trend of consumers ditching their cable and satellite television services (like U-Verse perhaps, which also offers digital TV along with Internet) opting instead to stream content over the Internet.
Unlike its cable counterparts, Dish Network has focused purely on pay-TV rather than bundling broadband and telephone services with it.
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.
In addition, satellite TV providers like DirecTV and Dish Network continue to lag the cable TV companies in their ability to offset program cost increases by selling their customers increasingly faster broadband services, per The Wall Street Journal.
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The company is currently involved in a legal battle with cable TV provider Virgin Media, which claims Sky is trying to "coerce" Virgin customers into switching services by denying them access to its basic channels.
While you can still buy a TiVo box at retail, Rogers notes that the company has been pushing its way into more deals with cable operators, and now has licenses with 9 of the 21 largest U.S. pay TV services.
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