The completion of the deal also marks a decidedly different strategy for the cable provider.
"High-speed internet is the biggest driver of growth for the cable companies right now, " says Amobi.
This is bad for the entertainment companies and completely neutral to good for the cable and satellite companies.
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The news is particularly well-timed for the cable network, which is set to launch in January 2011.
But fortunately for the cable companies, they have the networks of wires they laid starting in the 1970s.
The dispute centers on the rate that MSG asked for the cable operator to pay to carry its channels.
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The potential loss of ESPN Star Sports in China wouldn't appear to be a big deal for the cable network.
Disruption, that buzzword that gets tech geeks and venture capitalists excited, has all its usual negative connotations for the cable industry.
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Designs for the cable car will be completed in April 2010 after which a contractor will be sought to carry out its construction.
Guillermo Quiroz Delgado, 31, was a part time journalist for the cable TV news programme Notisabanas and a contributor to El Meridiano newspaper.
Winfrey's challenge was to reclaim a bit of the cultural spotlight that she once owned before abandoning her syndicated stardom for the cable netherworld.
And, for the rest of us who occasionally have to stay home for the cable guy, please use your best judgment in the spirit of collaboration.
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"Wireless is a conundrum for the cable industry in how we take that first step, " Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts said at an industry event last week.
Analysts agreed, saying the company could be leveraging Al Jazeera America, seeking to get a per-subscriber payment for the cable firm in exchange for carrying the channel.
The move backfired, however, as plans to start their own wireless services never materialized for the cable companies, and they ended up hoarding spectrum that could otherwise have been used constructively by the wireless industry.
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Worse, customers have to stay on line for long time to talk with someone with the old company to disconnect their services: and even longer time waiting for the cable man to show up and switch their services.
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The potential competitive advantage for the cable companies has underscored concerns in Verizon's landline work force that the company is marginalizing its landline business in favor of the far more lucrative wireless part of the company, several current and past employees said.
In a blistering letter in February to Michael Powell, the new chairman of the FCC, RadioShack, Circuit City and Sears argued that the encryption license is a self-preservation device that creates a double standard: one for the cable companies that own CableLabs and one for everyone else.
We created it seven years ago for WICT (Women in Cable Telecommunications), the premier association for women in the cable industry, and we conduct it for them a few times a year.
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The landing site for the transatlantic cable is to be built at Coleraine, but politicians in Londonderry have claimed it was originally planned for the city.
The U.S. market may one day open up for Narayan if the cable industry settles on a standard for interactive TV, which regulators have said must happen by 2005.
For years, whenever the cable guy was late for an installation, John Malone took his share of the blame-he was, after all, running the biggest cable operator in the U.S. No more.
Studio execs also talk privately about their enthusiasm for eliminating the cable or satellite middleman.
Ducting for the underground cable would be installed in a trench, which would be restored within weeks.
The only way for the networks and the cable companies to grow will be to buy Web-based channels.
By anyone's estimation, it's been a rocky couple of years for the premium cable outlet and one-time critical tastemaker.
They got more money for the copper cable they dug up than it cost them to put in fibre optic.
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It might look like a product of the recession, but this could be the beginning of the end for the traditional cable model.
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B's knuckles for bullying the cable companies that carry its programmes.
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