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Fast Company
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Breaking Down The Cost Of Watching Live Sports On Cable In a DVR world, sports is about the only stuff regularly watched live -- which allows sports networks to demand increasingly higher fees from cable providers.   |
The Motley Fool
October 28, 2010
Travis Hoium |
ESPN Breaks the Mold Live streaming content is spreading. |
Home Theater
February 26, 2009 |
Cable Shows to Go Online Cable operators are leading the effort to put cable programming on the internet. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2010
Eric Jhonsa |
Is Cable's Business Model Kaput? After the Fox-Time Warner dispute, consumers and service providers alike have reasons to support change. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2007
David Lee Smith |
CBS' Ship Comes In CBS announced last week it had completed a series of agreements with cable systems companies. Investors, stay tuned. |
Home Theater
October 19, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
NY Viewers Bruised in Carriage Smash In cable rebroadcast dispute, two major local channels go dark. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2004
Rich Smith |
FCC: Friend to Cable Companies Commissioner Powell and friends side against "a la carte" cable service. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2004
Rich Smith |
Changing the Channel on Cable The U.S. Senate wants cable to offer channels a la carte. |
Home Theater
October 27, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Fee Fights Starve Online TV Efforts by broadcast TV networks to get higher fees for cable transmission may reduce TV-show content online. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Can Cable Still Reward Shareholders? The sector's done well lately, but what new issues might cable operators be facing? Time Warner Cable... Comcast... etc. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Television Isn't Dead Comcast makes your cable subscription even stickier. |
BusinessWeek
May 21, 2009
Jon Fine |
Why Broadcast Networks Can't Just Turn Cable Sure, CBS and the others could garner paying audiences. But the broadcast network system is far too complex for a switch to happen easily. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2010
Manikandan Raman |
Cable War Between Disney and Time Warner: Who'll Win? Not only subscribers, but also the investors of Walt Disney and Time Warner Cable are wondering how the heightened clash between the companies over continued carriage of Disney channels will impact the bottom line of each. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Comcast, Time Warner, And The Future Of The Cable Box Comcast's acquisition of Time Warner Cable is well underway. The $45 billion deal cements Comcast's position as the country's largest cable provider and the First Among Equals of our national cable cartel. |
Home Theater
September 14, 2007 |
FCC Adopts Cable Transition Rules This week the Federal Communications Commission finally decided on "must carry" rules. All channels on your local airwaves must be available to all cable subscribers, whether their TVs are digital or analog. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2011
Keki Fatakia |
Has the Internet Killed TV? Time Warner Cable will offer a rebate on Slingboxes to its Wideband Internet customers. |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2010
April Taylor |
A Dimmer Future for Cable Operators Will young consumers cancel cable? |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2011
Patrick Martin |
Why Starz Made a Big Mistake When your industry moves online, you shouldn't try to fight the shift. |
The Motley Fool
December 5, 2010
Peter Yared |
Why Google Needs the DRM Technology Behind Netflix Google announces that it's purchased Widevine, a video digital rights management company. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Ronald Grover et al. |
Revenge of the Cable Guys If you think online TV will be free forever, think again. The cable companies have a plan to keep control - and stick you with the bill. |
Home Theater
March 25, 2008 |
Cable Ops Harass CableCARD Users Major cable operators are now cutting off program options to viewers who opted to dump their cable boxes for CableCARDS. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2007
Steven Mallas |
NBC Takes a Breath of Fresh Air NBC buys the Oxygen Network, which targets 18- to 24-year-old women, and comes with about 74 million subscribers. Was it a smart move for the media giant? |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Verizon Has A New Slimmed-Down TV Package, But At $55 A Month, Who Will Subscribe? The package is still a TV plan, not a streaming subscription, but Verizon may be trying to stop the growing numbers of "cord cutters" from dropping monthly TV subscriptions entirely. |
The Motley Fool
April 22, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Comcast the New Netflix? Everyone seems to be laughing at cable operators these days, but maybe it will be market leader Comcast that laughs last. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2010
Jim Mueller |
Disney Is Getting Dangerous Disney's shift away from studio revenue and toward media, relying more and more on television advertising and fees paid by cable operators, might have come at the worst possible time. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2012
Evan Niu |
What's Holding Back Apple's New TV? Content partners will end up giving in, again. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's Ready to Disrupt Again An analyst notes that Apple is working on a customized television service. |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Could Cable Get Boxed In? New FCC mandates could ultimately hurt the cable multisystems operators. The commission wants consumers to be able to purchase their own set-top boxes, theoretically to reduce the MSOs' control over the entire subscription process. Investors, take note. |
Home Toys
August 2005
James Russo |
Choosing a Home Satellite TV System DirecTV vs. Dish Network and Cable |
The Motley Fool
November 23, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Are They Ganging Up on Comcast? Comcast is currently doing battle with the FCC chairman, the NFL, and at least one of its subscribers. |
The Motley Fool
December 2, 2005
Rich Smith |
Cable Coalition Cracks Cablevision breaks ranks to support a la carte channel pricing. If giving the customer what it wants won't really bankrupt the cable providers, well, that's good news for cable companies and their investors alike. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The Cable Empires Strike Back In an effort to avoid losing subscribers to competing services, Comcast is teaming up with Time Warner to launch the TV Everywhere movement, offering content to cable subscribers online at no additional cost. |
The Motley Fool
June 11, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Found Money for CBS With broadcasters increasingly able to demand rebroadcast fees from cable companies, CBS's bottom line could become significantly chubbier. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Time Warner's Rerun-O-Rama A rumored "hits" channel from Time Warner seems like yesterday's brainchild. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2010
David Lee Smith |
The Cable Guys Are Better Than You Think With all of cable now having reported earnings, Comcast still leads the pack. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Comcast May Face FCC Skirmish FCC Chairman Kevin Martin may have proposed a ceiling on the number of cable subscribers that can be served by any one company. Nevertheless, investors with an appetite for solid, well-managed media companies should keep a close eye on Comcast. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005 |
ABC News Now: "We're Leapfrogging" ABC News president David Westin explains why he sees the digital channel "as the next generation in news." |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Cable Tackles the NFL Tired of steadily increasing sports programming charges, cable has booted the NFL Network. Comcast and Time Warner Cable now carry it only on their premium sports packages. |
Home Theater
June 3, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Cable Cleans Up Its Act Two cable operators improve customer service to prevent cord cutting. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Goodbye, Fat Cable Bills More consumers are cutting the cord with their pay TV providers. |
The Motley Fool
February 12, 2007
David Lee Smith |
The Television Giants Are Rumbling A look at the conflict between broadcast companies and cable operators and what investors should pay particular attention to. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Media Titans Won't Give Away What They Can Sell Entertainment kingpins take the stage at the Cable Show to defend the notion that when it comes to content, online doesn't always equal free. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
David Lee Smith |
A Business News Bonanza? A new business channel may be just around the corner. |
Home Theater
November 14, 2008 |
Times Are Hard? Raise Cable Rates! Home prices are plummeting, people are maxing out their credit cards, the stock market is in convulsions, health care costs are out of control, and the economy is rocketing into recession. America needs a morale booster. What better time to raise cable television rates? |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2004
Brian Gorman |
Indecent Proposal New indecency legislation may change the face of broadcasting. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2010
Anders Bylund |
How the Cable Guys Are Killing Themselves Video on demand may boost cable TV results for a while, but will end up killing the entire industry. |
Home Theater
November 7, 2008 |
Cable Must Carry Broadcast Channels Following the DTV transition next February, cable systems will be required to carry broadcast channels. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Disney/ABC Strikes Broadcast Deal With YouTube YouTube and Disney Media Networks today announced an agreement to show mini-episodes from ESPN and the Disney/ABC Television Group on ad-supported channels at the Google-owned video portal. |
The Motley Fool
February 24, 2011
Anders Bylund |
Commodity Broadcast Media Is a Dish Served Cold One of the satellite TV operators has figured out how to survive in the Internet age and the other one hasn't. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
David Lee Smith |
DirecTV Churns Out One Solid Quarter With subscriber defections slowing, DirecTV was able to increase its quarterly income by more than 40%. From the perspective of savvy investors, it looks like there is money to made from DirecTV. |
