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UPDATE, Thursday: Dylan Lyons, 24, was the Spectrum News 13 journalist who was shot and killed while covering the scene of a homicide on Wednesday. A fellow reporter and friend, Josh Miller, said, per the news outlet, “He took his job very seriously. He loved his career. He loved what he did. He…

A Texas judge ruled today that big cabler Charter Communications must pay $1.15 billion to the estate and heirs of a woman murdered by a repairman of the big cabler. The figure was reduced from an initial $7.38 billion by Dallas County Judge Juan Renteria after a jury found the company guilty in the case of a Spectrum…

Charter Communications followed Comcast’s uneven financial report on Thursday with its own mixed batch of results, which featured an unusual decline in broadband subscribers but also key metrics above Wall Street expectations. Revenue increased 6% to $13.6 billion, edging Wall Street analysts…

Bright and early Saturday morning, I got up and paid the cable bill. Then I started thinking, which is never a good thing. We sure pay a lot for media around here. At this point, there are only two of us in the house. We haven't added services or purchased much in the way of pay-per-view films (and zero when it comes…

Roku and Charter Communications have resolved a distribution snag that began last December over the Spectrum streaming app. In a joint statement today, the companies said they had reached "a mutually beneficial agreement” for the renewal of the app on the Roku platform. “As a result of the renewal, the Spectrum TV App…

NBCUniversal is expanding the number of households reachable with addressable advertising — a newer form of brand messages based on metrics beyond traditional demos — by 40% through a new deal with Charter Communications. The media company will now be able to serve addressable ads to 45 million households, which it…

NBCUniversal and Charter Communications have inked a multi-year distribution deal for NBCU's full portfolio that includes an extended free trial for Peacock Premium for Spectrum's broadband and video subscribers. The companies didn’t specify the length of the free trial. Charter will also distribute the Peacock app…

Spectrum has opted not to order a third season of cop drama L.A.'s Finest, an offshoot from the Bad Boys movie franchise headlined by Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, I have learned. The decision comes a little over a month after the show’s second season launched on the platform. Spectrum had no comment. Season 2 was…

Nyle Dimarco, the deaf model and actor who won America's Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, has sold a comedy about being a deaf man in America to Spectrum. Deadline understands that the Charter Communications-backed platform is developing the half-hour project with Daniel Dae Kim's production company 3AD and…

Charter Communications said late Tuesday it plans to sell $3 billion of senior notes to raise cash for fees and expenses and general corporate purposes – the latest major media company to tap the debt market for a cash cushion in the midst of the corovirus pandemic. Disney raised $6 billion selling debt securities…

EXCLUSIVE: Orlando Jones has booked a recurring role opposite Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba in the second season of Spectrum’s L.A.’s Finest. This is Jones’ first TV series casting following his two seasons on Starz’s American Gods as trickster god Anansi, aka Mr. Nancy. Jones made headlines recently, claiming he…

Adam Rose (Merry Happy Whatever) and Taylor Black (The Banker) have been tapped for recurring roles opposite Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba on the upcoming second season of Spectrum’s action drama L.A.’s Finest, from creators Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier, Sony Pictures TV, Jerry Bruckheimer TV and 2.0…