Sentences with phrase «us cable giant»

In addition, the regulators have forbidden the cable giant from entering into agreements with program suppliers — for example, TV networks — that restrict those suppliers from providing their content to online or streaming services.

The cable giant may be doing better than the rest of its competitors when it comes to hanging on to TV subscribers, and its Internet access business also provides plenty of cash flow from cord - cutters and streaming fans.

Comcast (cmcsa), the cable giant, may seem like an odd fit for the list.

Slaight told him cable giant Rogers had been sniffing around a six - year - old multi-platform media company called GlassBox TV, which was doing digital publishing, video - on - demand and specialty TV.

This week, the telecom giant provided more details about its plans for the 5G home service, which is likely to compete head on with cable giants like Comcast, Charter Communications (chtr) and Altice (atus).

While the cable giant's mammoth $ 5 billion purchase of exclusive rights to NHL programming last year got all the headlines, Thursday's deal with World Wrestling Entertainment is equally interesting, especially to fans of the squared circle.

Throughout 2012, Shaw purchased hundreds of thousands of shares in his own company, an effort to prop up the cable giant's flagging stock.

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After companies from cable giant Comcast to satellite TV titan AT&T, which owns DirecTV, reported their fourth quarter results, the total number of pay TV subscribers dropped 3.4 % from a year earlier, the highest rate of decline since the trend of cord cutting emerged in 2010, analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported on Thursday.

Over the past year, Comcast has been ramping up its new wireless service, stoking fears across the industry that the cable giant would shake up the market and quickly create a fifth major carrier.

The cable giant added 53,000 subscribers in the last quarter — its best performance in almost a decade — and some analysts saying reports of the death of cable «have been greatly exaggerated.»

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast offered to buy Sky for $ 31 billion in an unsolicited approach, taking on Rupert Murdoch's Fox and Bob Iger's Walt Disney in the battle for Europe's biggest pay - TV group.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast has offered to buy Sky for $ 31 billion in a surprise move, posing another hurdle to tycoon Rupert Murdoch's attempts to buy the broadcaster.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast Corp has offered $ 31 billion for Sky Plc, threatening a plan hatched by Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox Inc and Walt Disney Co to seize control of Europe's biggest pay - TV group.

Comcast is finally ready to unveil its new mobile phone service, but the market has shifted dramatically and gotten intensely more competitive since the cable giant first got started with the offering two years ago.

Sprint was talking to T - Mobile about combining, but put those talks on hold so it could discuss a possible partnership with cable giants Comcast (cmcsa) and Charter Communications (chtr).

If that happens, cable giant Comcast will have some serious competition on its hands.

If there's one thing everyone seems to agree on about Comcast's new wireless service, it's that the cable giant is playing it safe, and the four major carriers don't have much to worry about.

The logic behind AT&T acquiring Time Warner would likely be to counteract moves by Comcast, the cable giant that also owns NBC Universal, some analysts said.

The media and cable giant reported quarterly earnings on Wednesday that beat analyst expectations, and revenue that topped estimates, as the company grew its customer base in high - speed internet and business services, offsetting lost customers in video services.

Formed by cable giant Discovery Communications and Hollywood heavyweights including Howard and Grazer and others, New Form Digital produces content for online networks.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday moved to approve Charter Communications» $ 65.5 billion acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, enabling the creation of a new cable giant as the industry focuses more on broadband as traditional TV declines.

The cable giant is complicating Rupert Murdoch's plan to sell his entertainment assets to Disney.

LONDON Vodafone is nearing a transformational deal to buy continental European assets from cable giant Liberty Global and could announce an agreement next week, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

LONDON (Reuters)- Vodafone (VOD.L) is nearing a transformational deal to buy continental European assets from cable giant Liberty Global and could announce an agreement next week, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Since November, YES, the channel that airs New York Yankees games, has been blacked out on Comcast Corp. as the cable giant and the network's parent, 21st Century Fox, battle over terms of payment.

Rival suitors Bob Iger and Rupert Murdoch, of Disney and Fox, will struggle to match the U.S. cable giant's synergies.

The telecom and cable giants appear smaller in the rear - view mirror of Disney's $ 52 bln Fox deal.

In his statement, Tu, a lawyer with the Los Angeles law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, said that Dauman and Abrams had also been removed as directors of National Amusements Inc., the holding company that owns the controlling shares of cable giant Viacom and CBS.

She spoke just before appearing at a rally near City Hall calling for continued net neutrality opposing the proposed merger of cable giants Comcast and Time Warner.

Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Paterson, and Ed Rendell added their names to the list of lawmakers supporting the deal, which would create a new $ 30 billion joint venture by merging the Philadelphia cable giant's content division with NBC Universal's (NBCU) stable of television networks, film studios and theme parks.

Picking up on charges that were leveled against the cable giant in March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, speaking through his press secretary, put Spectrum on notice that misdeeds would not be tolerated.

Teachout, the upstart Democratic candidate appealing to the more liberal wing of the party, was in Syracuse Thursday in the midst of a whistlestop campaign tour and accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of being subservient to the two cable giants because they've contributed heavily to his campaign.

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Shearman & Sterling, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a raft of top firms to have advised on the $ 23.3 bn (# 14.9 bn) purchase of Virgin Media by US cable giant Liberty Global.

Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Shearman & Sterling and Latham & Watkins are among a raft of firms to have won roles on Vodafone's $ 18.4 bn (# 16.1 bn) purchase of the majority of US cable giant Liberty Global's European assets.

Mobile company Vodafone and US cable giant Liberty Global are to merge their Dutch operations to create a Netherlands - wide communications provider.

The announcement comes a little over four months after the cable giant opened its connected - home platform to third - party vendors, admitting products such as August smart locks, Automatic's car adapter / app, Cuff smart jewelry, the Leeo Smart Alert Nightlight, Lutron's Caseta Wireless lighting controls, Rachio's connected irrigation system, SkyBell's video doorbell, and the Whistle pet monitor in the first wave.

The former has already begun offering August locks as part of Xfinity Home — the cable giant's attempt to elbow in connected home offerings from the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google.

In a deal that can power the talking points of «net neutrality» detractors and advocates alike, video streamer Netflix announced «a mutually beneficial interconnection agreement» with cable giant Comcast.

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Not exact matches

The vertically integrated media / cable / telco giants are watching — with clenched corporate jaws — as previously bulletproof annuities, like landline and cable subscriptions, have begun to show signs of vulnerability.

Given that even cellular giant Verizon (VZ) is starting to bend on its contract policy, my bet is the cable companies win that one.

Ever since it was first floated a year ago, the idea of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — two giant Internet and cable TV providers — combining in an $ 78 billion merger sparked concern in a number of areas.

In Canada, where the media giants also own the cable, web and mobile markets, the stakes for quality content are even higher.

U.S. media giant Viacom made a submission to the regulator saying that unbundling cable packages would send the existing Canadian TV business into a «death spiral.»

Worried that the Silicon Valley giant is going to increasingly eat their TV lunch, the two cable companies have decided to fight fire with fire.

Overall, the cable and entertainment giant increased revenue in 2015 by over 8 %, and generated free cash flow of almost $ 9 billion.

Liberty Global and Vodafone ended talks about an exchange of assets — the companies» operations overlap the most in the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands — denying the cable and mobile - phone giants a chance to consolidate in their key markets.

Imagine deploying a giant cable vertically from ground to space, perfectly balanced between the gravity pulling it down and the Earth's centrifugal force holding it up.