Sentences with phrase «by a cable from»

A dramatic example of enrichment has been used with cheetahs where a food item is hung by a cable from an overhead pulley, and rapidly dragged across their enclosure stimulating a high - speed predatory chase.

e by cable from the Lombok mainland of 10 megawatts of additional power, a report in the Antara News Agency writes that plans to lay the undersea power line to the Gili Air, Meno and Trawanagan island group has been suspended on the orders of the West Nusa Tenggara province.

Hanging by a cable from the ceiling, it turns freely this way and that.

Not exact matches

In a nutshell, this means that TV - related companies who rely on advertising revenue to support their businesses need to be re-valued by investors, and that even those who depend primarily on affiliate fees from cable distributors — a group that would include ESPN — have likely been over-valued.

Only 77 % of homes with Internet connections subscribed to cable or satellite TV last year, down from 81 % in 2016, according to surveys by the research firm Parks Associates.

As streaming companies such as Netflix steal viewers from the cable providers like Comcast and Verizon Fios, the cable guys are trying to claw back viewers by creating their own streaming services.

A report from the Convergence Consulting Group revealed the number of Canadian households that pay for cable and satellite declined by 0.7 % in 2014.

The FCC appears determined to press on, however, and given chairman Wheeler's comments on the matter so far, it seems unlikely that he is going to be put off by a little grumbling from the cable and satellite companies.

For example, 79 % of households paid for traditional cable or satellite service in last year's annual survey by the Leichtman Research Group, down from 84 % three years earlier and the all - time peak of 88 % in 2010.

In a lengthy email to his colleagues first obtained by BuzzFeed, the foreign - policy hawk argued that the cable news network had been transformed from a «legitimate and much - needed outlet for conservative voices» into a «propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.»

Propelled by Ailes» «fair and balanced» branding, Fox has targeted viewers who believe the other cable - news networks, and maybe even the media overall, display a liberal tilt from which Fox News delivers them with unvarnished truth.

As the DOJ's complaint against the merger argues, the resulting conglomerate might «use its control of Time Warner's popular programming as a weapon to harm competition» by raising the prices it charges other cable networks for Time Warner entertainment or limiting distribution of content from other producers.

While global stocks have rebounded temporarily from the thrashing they took in the wake of last week's U.K. decision, it appears that the long - rumored merger between Lionsgate and premium cable network Starz might have been derailed by the global financial uncertainty stemming from the Brexit.

According to reports from CNN and the Washington Post, the Justice Department is preparing to charge Assange for his role in the 2010 dump of diplomatic cables that were published by WikiLeaks, as well as a more recent release of the CIA's library of hacking tools.

The nation's fourth - largest cable provider managed to narrow its annual loss by nearly half in 2013, largely on a rise in revenue from TV and Internet customers.

The difference is that Travelers is «wired» by infrared light, a medium that (along with radio waves) is already freeing office networks from the physical bondage of coaxial cable — and the fiscal pain of leaving it behind if you move.

The intention was to prevent the Internet service providers from hindering the rise of new services, perhaps online video that would compete with their own cable TV offerings, either through technical means or by imposing hefty fees.

Cut back on television and cable bills by casting TV shows from your smartphone to the big screen via Google Chrome, Roku or Apple TV.

Meanwhile, cable revenue was $ 872 million, up from $ 870 million a year ago, as continued Internet revenue growth and the pricing changes across all product types was mostly offset by television subscriber losses.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

But by giving a special deal to its best cable TV subscribers, Comcast signaled that it's taking aim at the still small, but growing threat from TV - like services delivered over the Internet.

According to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable, in January 2007, the company's representative in China, a U.S. citizen, was summoned and interrogated by the State Security Bureau about NTDTV staff reporting from its New York offices.

Vice, which is aiming for 50 staff in Dubai by the end of the year, will launch a website and digital channel this summer and is in active discussions about a 24 - hour regional cable channel to be broadcast from the emirate.

It wasn't wireless, but rather cable provider Comcast trying to extort more money from Netflix by slowing the streaming service.

A rep from Fox News Channel says its coverage, anchored by Shepard Smith, begins at 11 a.m. ET and will be available on FoxNews.com without the usual cable authentication.

When she was interviewed by Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes (and even here she was a winner over McDougal: the Tiffany network for the porn star, basic cable for the bunny), she seemed entirely different from the quivering playmate.

Oh, and by the way, we'll do the complete phone system implementation - from consulting, cabling, installation, and training.

(Reuters)- Viacom Inc reported weaker - than - expected quarterly revenue, hurt by lower advertising revenue from its U.S. cable TV business as viewers increasingly shift to online streaming services.

The 2002 law, usually called McCain - Feingold, banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of «electioneering communications» paid for by corporations or labor unions from their general funds in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general elections.

Disturbing WikiLeaks cables from the 2005 - 2009 period show systemic and effective lobbying by U.S. officials, who pressured Canadian politicians to implement stricter copyright laws.

They have to do with protecting their cable offering by limiting bandwidth consumers already paid for, from being used for cable alternatives (youtube, netflix, bittorrent, etc...).

Discovery Communications: A global provider of non-fiction video content, Discovery's share price performance during the period was hurt by market concerns about content producers» business models as the industry transitions from traditional cable television to internet - based streaming technology.

While WikiLeaks is perhaps best known for publishing US State Department diplomatic cables, documents from the Democratic National Committee, and classified information provided by then - Army Spc. Bradley Manning, the site also sells T - shirts and apparel to its supporters.

Made in Cambodia by disadvantaged artisans of brass recycled from old bombs, and hanging on an 18 ″ brass cable chain, it arrives in a 100 % recycled jewelry box — perfect for gift - giving!

It scrambles up and onward always by spiralling round whatever stands in its path — drainpipe, porch pillar, / lawn chair — but then, once anchored, corkscrews round itself, amassing braided cables of self - hugging self - satisfaction, the conquering hero's doublejointed pat on his own back, the unbridled ego trip impelled by the uppity sap from deepest root to farthest outflung tip, ecstatically, imperially quivering toward its vegetal entelechy.

Unless someone being birthed by a virgin, walking on water, raising people from the dead, raising himself from the dead, and magically ascending into the sky as if he had hollywood cables on (Sorry Chris Angel) is somehow normal, now - a-days.

One cable from earlier this year says the Vatican was angered by the way the Murphy Commission - which was looking into the how complaints of abuse had been handled by the Church and Irish government - sidestepped normal diplomatic channels.

Television and cable deliver unsolicited images into homes and, thus, are different from media which are sought by users on their own initiative.

None of this means that religious believers, and particularly religious parents, don't have understandable reasons for trying to wall their families off from the worst of what American pop culture has to offer, whether by canceling their cable subscription or packing up and moving to Ave Maria Town.

It is a one - hour drive from Geneva and ten - minute gondola ride from Megève; the resort is accessed by cable car, snowmobile or helicopter

TGC is peopled by refugees from HBO, CNN, ESPN and various other cable channels among which I will soon be yearning, but unable, to surf.

A calm female voice on the other end told «Sir, from today onwards ESPN - Star has been cancelled out for non-payment by all cable operators in the country!»

Also note that some forms of offline political communications also benefit from similar kinds of targeting, since the explosion of cable channels naturally encourages targeting by interest — «cable» channels delivered by actual cable rather than by satellite are also often geotargetable by zip code or neighborhood.

You could also take some of the products of these programs out of the public domain (if they are in the public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get done).

One topic that came up at Tuesday night's City Council meeting was the claim by some attending of terrible service from Spectrum cable.

The White House, constantly under fire from expected enemies on the right, has been frustrated by nightly attacks on cable news shows catering to the left, where Obama and top lieutenants like Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have been excoriated for abandoning the public option in healthcare reform; for not moving faster to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay; and for failing, so far, to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

A 2009 U.S. State Department diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks described then - prime ministerial candidate Netanyahu informing a visiting Congressional delegation that Iran was «probably one or two years away» from developing weapons capability.

One of the cables released in September 2011 by wikileaks, the respected senior journalist, Mr. Kwesi Pratt was reported to have confirmed Akufo - Addo's drug used to US intelligence officials, noting that it is not uncommon to see Akufo - Addo surrounded by a thick clouds of smoke from marijuana early morning.

After a bid from the nation's largest cable provider, Comcast, to purchase Time Warner Cable was dropped earlier this year, Charter Communications made an offer to buy the company, a merger that is now pending review by federal regulators.

«The US embassy in London wrote off Gordon Brown within a year of his arrival in No 10 after concluding that an «abysmal track record» had left him lurching from «political disaster to disaster», according to cables released by WikiLeaks.