None of these questions are new, but, with Winfrey having embarked on an extraordinary venture starting a cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), that is meant to be entirely in her own image they are worth asking.
"Netflix is starting to cannibalize cable-TV viewership and it could start cannibalizing advertising, too, " Pachter said.
Radio One is also expanding into cable, starting TV One, a black-oriented channel in January--teamed with powerhouse Comcast.
To that end, the state is moving forward with an innovative and ambitious plan to connect the islands via undersea cable, starting with Oahu, Maui, Molokai and Lanai.
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To achieve that, cable companies are starting to cut deals with cell service providers.
The NCTA has already starting posturing on its blog, Cable Tech Talk, with a post highlighting all the wonderful changes in the video distribution industry in the past 20 years -- however, curiously, the upwardly creeping price of the average bill wasn't mentioned.
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Acquistapace, whose agency was behind the Taco Bell and VW Super Bowl ads, said comparing a Tweet to a commercial on a moderately rated cable network may be a better starting point.
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.
But just by moving the cable to the Xbox, Microsoft and Comcast are starting to shake the accepted norms of television.
You see, ever since FiOS starting deploying CableCARDs, a year after all the other cable providers, it has never enforced the pairing of the cards or used Copy Control Information (CCI) flags more restrictive than Copy Freely.
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But fortunately for the cable companies, they have the networks of wires they laid starting in the 1970s.
Starting in the 1990s, telecommunications companies spent billions of dollars laying fiber-optic cable all over the country.
Nintendo TVii intends to streamline the experience further, casting aside your cable box remote for built-in channel guides and DVR programming (coffee table's starting to look pretty sparse, eh?).
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