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Comcast Suffers Nationwide Cable TV And Broadband Outage – Update
UPDATED with reports of some customers having service restored. Before Comcast can come back to the bargaining table with a new offer for 21st Century Fox assets, it will likely need to get its broadband service back up and running.
As the battle with Disney over Fox continues, the No. 1 U.S. cable provider is dealing…
Most Pay TV Subscribers Stay Because It’s Bundled With Broadband, Survey Finds
The rumbling under the ground of traditional television is growing louder according to the results of Deloitte’s latest annual Digital Democracy Survey, which polled 2,131 U.S. consumers in early November.
The audit, consulting, tax and advisory firm found that 74% of U.S. households subscribe to pay TV and about two-t…
ESPN Says Verizon FiOS Contracts Don’t Permit Separate Sports Packages – Update
UPDATE, 7:23PM: ESPN has thrown up a red flag to Verizon’s plan to allow FiOS TV subscribers to choose smaller “skinny” packages of programming bundles tailored a little more closely to individual consumer tastes — including splitting off ESPN and ESPN2 into sports bundles. The Re/code website reported late this…
Canada Mandates A La Carte Cable Pricing
Cable a la carte pricing, whereby consumers pay for only the channels they want, has finally broken through in Canada. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said in a sweeping ruling today that cable and satellite providers must offer consumers an affordable basic lineup and allow them to…
Disney CFO Says Consumers Should Love Pay TV, And Online Video Too
Forget all the talk about how much people hate their cable and satellite companies, and want to cut the cord. Pay TV is “probably the best bargain in entertainment today” and doesn’t have a big problem appealing to consumers, Disney CFO Jay Rasulo told an investor gathering today. Disney was thinking offensively…
<img clas…Comic-Con: Why Cable Is Soaring Thanks To Creative Erosion In Films And Network Fare
ANALYSIS FROM COMIC-CON: Last evening, I attended a Comic-Con preview screening for the USA series Psych and saw that rabid fans camped out 12 hours in a line around the block just to glimpse an episode that will soon screen on their TV sets. Today, I see <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-543929" title="comic-c…
<img class="alignleft s…FCC OKs Basic Cable TV Tier Encryption
The FCC voted unanimously to allow cable companies such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision to encrypt basic services, Bloomberg reported. Prior to the ruling issued late Friday, cable companies encrypted premium cable programming but were barred from scrambling basic channels so consumers would not be…
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