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NCTA To Martin: Abort New Rate Probe By Ted Hearn - 11/12/2008
Washington—Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin came under attack Wednesday from a cable industry upset about his latest effort to put alleged cable rate hikes under a microscope. More
Charter Misses Interest Payment By Mike Farrell - 01/15/2009
After purposely missing a Jan. 15 interest payment, Charter Communications appeared to be moving closer to a restructuring.
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Charter Moving Closer to Restructuring? By Mike Farrell - 01/14/2009
Charter Communications, which said last month that it would seek to negotiate a restructuring of its balance sheet with bondholders, made further steps in that direction Wednesday, eliminating its executive cash award plan and making changes to its other bonus compensation programs.
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IFC On VOD Opens Wide By R. Thomas Umstead - 01/12/2009
IFC hopes to raise the curtain on its fledgling IFC In Theaters pay-per-view video-on-demand service with the debut later this month of the critically-acclaimed, Steven Soderbergh-produced independent film Che two weeks after its theatrical debut.
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Cisco To Take DOCSIS 3.0 Modems Over 300 Mbps By Todd Spangler - 01/12/2009
Cisco Systems is developing a cable modem that will use Broadcom’s recently announced DOCSIS 3.0 silicon to bond together eight downstream channels – letting cable providers, theoretically, pump Internet content down to subscribers at more than 300 Mbps.
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PEG Has Blurry Future In Golden State By Linda Haugsted - 01/12/2009
Communities throughout California will see less public-access programming this year, as cable operators turn support of those channels over to cities and counties under the terms of the 2006 law that put the state in charge of cable franchises.
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Cover Story: Operators, Broadcasters Give Peace A Chance On Retransmission Consent By Mike Farrell & Linda Moss - 01/10/2009
Just a few years ago, CBS Corp. CEO Les Moonves told an audience at an industry conference that within five years, cable operators should expect to pay cash to carry the network. Well, those days are evidently here.
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BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News December 12, 2008 FiOS TV: Data Points
Verizon has deployed somewhere around 4.8 million FiOS TV set-top boxes so far, acc... More
BIT RATE Todd Spangler, Technology Editor, Multichannel News November 17, 2008 Pizza-on-Demand
TiVo is reheating a classic/cliched TV-commerce application: ordering a pizza ... More
Cable Hall of Fame Six cable industry leaders were inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame last week during a ceremony held in conjunction with The Cable Center’s Cable Days at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
History Wraps Up NYC Subway To promote the third season of its hit series ‘Cities of the Underworld,’ History executed the first-ever full advertising wrap of the exterior and interior of a New York City subway car.
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