If you want to see an episode of 30 Rock you can watch it on Hulu, on-demand on cable or through Netflix streaming.
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In the United States, where it consistently ranks within the top five Spanish language shows broadcast on cable, El Chavo is the leading sitcom for kids 6-11, adults 18-34 and adults 18-49 on Spanish-language cable channel Galavision.
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Traditionally, that has meant a movie hits theaters first, followed several months later by DVDs, video-on-demand, subscription-cable channels, and so on.
Here's the scoop: CableCard is literally a card that you pop into the back of your TV set so that you can get rid of your digital cable box and plug that coax directly into your digital TV (it's sort of like how you can use analog cable on a cable-ready analog TV without a cable box).
Neither company's effort has done anything to shake the shared stronghold of Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and Scientific Atlantic (nyse: SFA - news - people ) on the cable set-top box industry.
That said, purchasing is easy and fast, and we had no problems streaming in the highest-available quality on our 10Mbps cable connection -- Max Payne didn't look super-awesome in SD, but it was certainly watchable.
The unmanned K-MAX carries its cargo externally on a 25-metre cable.
First of all, every commuter rail system has full time maintenance crews, and they always have plenty of work: changing lightbulbs in the tube, fixing a signal that got bumped, replacing an on-track communication cable that was vibrated out of place and smashed, etc.
The show, which airs on the I-LifeTV cable channel, is just one of 650 created or carried on Inspiration's four Christian cable television channels, including its Inspiration Network and La Familia Cosmovision.
As Politico first reported Friday afternoon, the left-leaning cable network on which the right-wing personality appears is suspending Scarborough for two days without pay after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown contributions to political candidates.
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The FCC regulations also place tougher restrictions on fixed-line services from cable and phone companies than on wireless carriers, which have more limited bandwidth.
The debate will be broadcast live on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and on cable channels C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.
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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News Corp. gained 0.9% in Sydney after reporting its fiscal second-quarter profit was up 65% from a year earlier on increased earnings at cable-television networks and film and television studios.
The Rangers' win over Boston on Wednesday night was watched by 956, 000 viewers on NBC Sports Network, making it the most-watched NHL regular-season game on any cable station in 11 years.
With its middleware Biddle software (based on the same DVB-GEM spec as OCAP, and also available to cable operators) included on a Blu-ray disc, the company claims its ready to deliver an "interactive TV service" consisting of VOD, web browsing, e-mail, social networking access or nearly anything else you can imagine.
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Playcast, based in Israel and London, is a games-on-demand system for cable and IPTV operators.
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Today, "death tax" is a common on-screen headline on cable TV news, and it appears as shorthand throughout the media.
While the design may change, the interface is expected to be easier for people to use than existing cable on-screen menus, widely viewed as clunky.
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Even though the release is going to be mainly on-demand, with a shorter-than-usual lead time, getting on several cable companies' schedules simultaneously and encoding the film takes time.
Then a three-season reality TV stint on the cable network's Newlyweds, made her--and to a lesser degree her husband, Nick Lachey--household names.
Next on his shopping list will likely be majority ownership in Sportsnet, an all-sports cable channel on which he can air his Blue Jays' games.
Mr. Stuart and his band have showcased the songs on "The Marty Stuart Show, " which appears weekly on cable's RFD-TV.
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Comedy Central took on the science fiction sitcom - which is set on a spaceship in the 31st century - in 2007, after its repeats on American cable TV network Adult Swim found a large cult following.
On November 20, a State Department cable to Washington on AbdulMutallab -- based on the information from his father -- lacked any mention of his visa, the officials said.
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On Monday a new television network aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds will premiere on cable TV in some 20 million households.
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.
In addition, the mic and line-level inputs on the breakout cable are separate, meaning all inputs can be connected simultaneously, without having to re-patch when you switch from one to the other.
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"When he informs us who he wants to fight and when he wants to fight, we will finalise it, " said Mark Taffet, the senior vice-president of HBO Sports, who exclusively televise Lewis' fights on pay-per-view and cable television.
News of the outage came as another cable - the Main One cable linking Europe with Western Africa - was switched on.
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