At one time John Malone controlled cable lines in Sweden, Norway and others in Malta and Israel.

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Last September, it secured a deal with US cable television pioneer John Malone's Liberty Media.

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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.

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The FCC is making "a calculated decision to use violence as the stalking horse to try to get greater censorship authority" and gain "regulatory power over basic cable, " says FX chief John Landgraf.

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John Kerry, who wrote to Time Warner Cable and News Corp. last week requesting the companies reach an agreement so viewers could watch football on New Year's Day, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said his company is willing to accept binding arbitration "immediately" to resolve the dispute.

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In the early 1980s he helped rural cable entrepreneurs, like Adelphia's John Rigas, finance their expansions.

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Before Golisano took charge, the Sabres were owned by John Rigas, founder and chief executive officer of cable giant Adelphia Communications.

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"It will be difficult, if not impossible, to continue the media momentum to the degree that cable news networks have enjoyed in this historic election cycle, " says John Rash, director of media analysis at advertising agency Campbell Mithun.

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Ann Cable, 59, has been made an MBE for her voluntary service to St John Ambulance.

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The cable goes on to present a tale of lavish living, including a six-figure sum for Elton John to sing at a birthday party and a palace in the United Arab Emirates.

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