Numerous trails climb the 1, 000m-high plateau but the most popular is Platteklip Gorge, a steep, 3km walk that begins near the lower cable-car station.
It's also part of a trend in which generally lower-rated cable channels reboot themselves in order to boost ratings and revenue, Adgate said.
So unless you think the cable guys will accept lower margins, get ready to boost your cable payments unless the regulators step in.
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So the courts are more likely to "raise the First Amendment protections for broadcast than they are to lower the protections for cable, " says Duke's Benjamin.
Each robot is composed of two halves: the upper part, shaped like a stunted surfboard, is attached by a cable to a lower part that sports a series of fins and a keel.
Cablevision Systems (nyse: CVC - news - people ) shares are lower on analyst comments that the cable company's value could fall if a dispute with Time Warner (nyse: TWX - news - people ) isn't resolved.
Among the largest underlying components of PUI, in trading today DirecTv ( DTV) is off about 0.8%, and Time Warner Cable ( TWC) is lower by about 1.6%.
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Yet increasingly, relatively humdrum, time-consuming tasks, which would once have been foisted on ambitious but inexperienced young recruits, working long hours to earn their spurs in Wall Street or the City of London, are, thanks to the miracle of fibre-optic cable, foisted on their lower-paid Indian counterparts.
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Cable offers more creative freedom, lower Nielsen expectations and a significantly shorter season of work.
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Wi-Fi is slightly slower than cable or DSL, but its lower cost makes it popular with cities that want to offer affordable wireless service to their residents.
Even though the pricing is comparable to that offered by the cable companies, the speeds are relatively lower and hence the target market is mainly confined to rural and remote areas.
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Authentication has been embraced by many players in the TV industry as a way to head off the possibility that consumers could begin dropping their cable and satellite TV subscriptions in favor of lower-cost online video services, such as Netflix Inc.
Cablevision shares are trading sharply lower Friday on disappointing Q3 results, and dragging down other cable and satellite TV stocks in the process.
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If Pandora ran several minutes of audio ads per hour (the way terrestrial radio does) vs. just a few 15 second spots, the percentage of revenues paid out as royalties would be dramatically lower and would be more in line with satellite radio or cable TV.
Cable makers have responded to relentless pressure from customers for lower prices by innovating.
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More teams may take the same approach, reporting lower fees for revenue sharing while raking in higher sums through owner-controlled cable channels.
DirecTV knows that its lower price is what has allowed it to continue to add subscribers while terrestrial cable operators have been losing them.
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Moreover, in the few areas of America where one cable company has built over a rival's existing system, where a telephone company has set up an experimental system to deliver television signals, or where there is an old, municipally owned cable system as well as a private one, competition has led to lower prices (see chart).
The biggest growth area for cable is in high-speed Internet access market, of which cable holds two-thirds (DSL has about one-third and is trending lower).
Traceroutes into Cuba through the new Telefonica path show markedly lower latencies than the Caribbean country's existing satellite-reliant connections, hinting that the cable has been flipped on -- at least in one direction.
The barriers to entry are lower now, and a great many people like me are able to think about buying their cable without having to call some guy to do some stuff with some wires.
Time Warner Cable hinted during their earnings that they will be introducing low-cost programming packages to address lower end of the market.
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