All of this raises the question: How long until the broadcast networks turn into cable networks?
Radio One is also expanding into cable, starting TV One, a black-oriented channel in January--teamed with powerhouse Comcast.
We have generated an average annual return of 11 percent, while expanding into cable, movies, parks and international media.
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Furthermore, the company is expected to benefit from an ambitious expansion into cable and paid TV which usage is booming in Latin America.
Aside from buying into cable companies and funding a small, unsuccessful foray into educational software, Allen has focused his investments on things Microsoft doesn't invest in--like sports teams, music museums and the film industry.
By plugging a router into a cable modem, ordinary people are stepping into a complex world, where they need to understand some highly specialized technology, according to Michael Gartenberg, VP and Research Director, Jupiter Research.
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There he entered into the cable business, which eventually took him back to eastern Europe.
His work producing health documentaries in the 1980s evolved into a cable channel called America's Health Network.
If you can wind it or weave it then you can certainly spin it into a cable.
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Customers could buy a cheap digital video camera, plug it into their cable box, and engage in videoconferences using their TV.
Google, the Internet search giant that wants to wire Kansas City like no other place, is reportedly pondering a jump into the cable TV business.
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Much of that investment will go toward converting shows into digital cable format, building an ad sales division and paying to beam programming cross-country by satellite.
In his July 1999 Gilder Technology Report, George writes that Lucent already possesses the know-how to cram 864 fiber-optic strands, each carrying 5 trillion bits per second, into one cable sheath.
Or you can dig deep into your cable guide.
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In June, with little fanfare, Comcast announced it would join smaller cabler Charter Communications in testing a new Sony technology called Passage that allows any manufacturer's box to tap into any cable network.
The Gennum ActiveConnect GV8502 can be seamlessly and cost-effectively embedded into the cable, enabling a variety of new active cable solutions that will allow DisplayPort to become a pervasive technology in these fast-growing markets.
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In 1995 Disney dropped the pay-channel approach to turn the outlet into a basic cable service.
There are extra costs involved - and it's not just a case of wiring a cable into the third umpire's room either.
Of course, users will need to integrate an additional cable into their setup, but plenty of people will have spares lying around at home.
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Emerging data services like VoIP, in which a user plugs a phone handset into a special cable modem to make calls, are also starting to catch on.
There's no need for any backup software - just plug the Transformer Cable into your PC and plug any size of external hard drive from any manufacturer into the other end of the Transformer.
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Last week, Kennard rejected a recommendation from the FCC's Local and State Government Advisory Committee to begin an inquiry into complaints about cable companies with an eye towards forcing them to open up their networks.
Plug the cable into the motherboard socket.
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There's no need for any backup software - just plug the Transformer Cable into your PC and plug the included hard drive (or any other external hard drive) into the other end of the Transformer and backup will automatically start.
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When a pulse of light is sent into the tumor using fiber optic cable that is threaded into a tumor using a biopsy needle, the molecule absorbs the light energy, converts it electrical energy that then causes tumor cells to self destruct.
And with a more trusted and cable-savvy management, the broadband part should also soon get into its stride and be in a stronger position to sweet-talk other operators into opening their networks for cable telephony.
Who was there to caution against the mad stampede of telecoms firms into fibre-optic cable?
The goal was to remake a forgotten, high-numbered cable channel into Oprah-branded gold.
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