At 32 he quit to partner up with Robert Magness, a GI customer and chairman of TCI, which by then had 400, 000 cable TV subscribers.
Pivot has identified two main groups within its prospective audience: cable TV subscribers who watch "television" across multiple platforms, and viewers who subscribe only to broadband.
Set-top boxes allow cable-TV subscribers to surf the Internet from their sofas.
Kazim likens the model to cable TV, where subscribers can opt for premium channels.
Kazim likens the model to cable TV, where subscribers can opt for a basic package or one with premium channels.
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Even so, the longstanding blackout combined with Mr. Lin's popularity could prompt some Time Warner Cable subscribers to switch TV providers.
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Also, in a reversal from prior Olympics, every Olympic event will be available live on NBCOlympics.com for people who can prove they subscribe to cable- or satellite-TV subscribers.
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.
Meanwhile, TV Everywhere, the feature that lets cable subscribers watch hundreds of channels on any device, at no extra charge, is a deeply cynical ploy to please customers.
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The TV Everywhere initiative by cable providers is an attempt to retain subscribers by offering a choice of free on-demand viewing over the internet on the condition of subscription to their pay TV services.
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Pivot could be the first of many "a la carte" broadband channels offered to subscribers weary of paying for whole tiers of cable-TV networks.
Not only will this content be more expensive, but it will further threaten the pay-TV providers as it will give their subscribers an incentive to drop cable subscriptions, for example, and subscribe to Netflix.
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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.
And in what would be a major shift in direction, Hulu management has discussed recasting Hulu as an online cable operator that would use the Web to send live TV channels and video-on-demand content to subscribers, say people familiar with the talks.
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