To get around the problem, groups are buying up time from local cable companies.
RAI, Italy's national broadcaster, to Latin America, mainly to be distributed by local cable channels.
Large disparities in local cable money mean that big market and small market owners have very different agendas.
In 1978, he launched a local cable-television station for Milano 2, called Telemilano.
Sharon Kleinpeter with the local cable company, Cox Communications, says the law was passed two years ago after long negotiations.
Fox executives said they were in talks with local cable television distributors on agreements to pick up the new Fox Sports Brasil channel.
Between them, the four cable companies operate nine of the ten biggest local cable systems in the country, and 20 of the top 25.
With television, a typical club is allotted roughly 70 games in an 82-game season for which it can sell local cable rights, the balance held back for national telecasts.
Local cable ratings on the YES Network reflect about 1% of metro area households, better than last year but still among the bottom six in the league.
Comporium is the local cable company there and apparently, they couldn't come to terms with the local NBC affiliate, WCNC, on 20 hours of weekly high-def programming.
For anyone who'd cursed out their cable company, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 promised salvation by allowing competitors to "overbuild" on top of entrenched local cable companies.
This season, according to SportsBusiness Journal, the Tigers had the highest local cable rating in baseball, averaging 9.1 on FS Detroit, 41% higher than 2011.
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Phoenix gets about 10, 000 viewers a game on local cable, Florida closer to 3, 000 (the Miami Herald quipped that some infomercials draw more viewers than the Panthers do).
For one, Dish Network or DirecTV might do a deal with Apple to offer consumers who normally default to their local cable company another reason to give them a try.
Cox Business is a facilities-based provider of voice, video and data solutions for commercial customers, and Cox Media is a full-service provider of national and local cable spot and new media advertising.
The local cable model divides the NBA into haves and have-nots, the result being a three-way fight among players, large market owners and small market owners over how to split up the money.
The Auburn Journal wrote a big 'ole article about how HDTV owners will not be able to receive the Super Bowl in HD because their local cable provider does not have ABC in high definition.
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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.
Back in 2002, the FCC rejected a proposed combination of the satellite TV providers Dish Network and DirecTV, asserting that a merger of the two companies would hurt consumers by reducing competition, in particular for rural customers who lacked local cable television service.
The team has a lucrative local cable deal (they own a sizable stake in Comcast Sports Net Bay Area), have been out front in the popular reality television format for MLB following their 2010 title, and are pushing hard in social media.
The ad, from new agency Spark44, debuted on the NFL Network and also is airing on national, local and cable outlets.
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You can tell the health care debate is reaching a critical point just by the number of ads flooding the airwaves of local and cable television.
Local radio, cable TV, and billboards are all viable options for business owners with larger marketing budgets.
Local and national cable news broadcast footage of the rescue effort and showed the woman emerging from the space at about 7:30 a.m.
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.
For 50 years advertising has paid for the production of most of the TV shows that have graced the three (and later four)main broadcast networks and run later on a panoply of local stations and cable networks.
After the Lakers coaching theatrics dominated the first half of the sports week, the week closed with extremely important financial news for both Time Warner Cable and local restauranteurs across Los Angeles.
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Meanwhile, the National Association of Counties, which represents two-thirds of the nation's counties, passed a motion last week asserting the right of local governments to require cable companies to provide open access.
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