Sentences with phrase «cable tv companies»

Allentown is one of the only cities in America that is served by two cable TV companies.

For example, cable TV companies require large amounts of capital to acquire, expand or upgrade their systems.

Allentown is one of the only cities in America that is served by two cable TV companies.

Currently, all the cable TV companies offer free telephone calls between subscribers and many are now planning to expand into providing Internet connections along the same lines.

The deal would combine the top two cable TV companies in the United States.

St. Maarten also several Internet providers and a cable TV company that offers over 50 different channels.

Cable TV: If you live in a city or town of almost any size, you probably have at least one cable TV company that serves the town.

Cable technician resume objective 4: To be recruited in a challenging service oriented position in a multi service cable TV company where my technical skills and resourceful experience would add significant value to the company's operations and furthering the company on the path of success.

Savvy consumers know they can often get a better deal from their phone or cable TV company if they simply ask for one.

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New technology like Dish's $ 20 / month Sling service and Microsoft's Xbox TV tuner make it easier than ever for consumers to ditch the cable company while still getting a decent fix of television.

In an interview with the Canadian Press, Canaccord Genuity analyst Dvai Ghose noted a number of challenges that will face Laurence once he begins his new role at Rogers, including the improvement of customer service and the efficiency of the company's cable division, which competes directly with Bell's Internet protocol TV service.

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.

That in turn could help the company take on an industry even less popular with consumers than the wireless industry was: cable TV.

Face it: none of these numbers are reassuring to cable companies that are seeing users desert them in droves for less costly and more flexible options like Netflix (NFLX), Hulu and Apple (AAPL) TV.

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.

Nielsen, the company whose name is synonymous with network and cable TV ratings, has been trying for a few years to expand its measurement capabilities to cover the rapidly - growing streaming entertainment market.

In addition to Matheson's work on TV and online, celebrity chef and best - selling author Eddie Huang (Fresh Off the Boat) also hosts a Viceland travel show, called Huang's World, while the rapper Action Bronson has his own culinary travel show on the company's cable network called F*ck, That's Delicious.

Today, Volk - Weiss licenses programs to established «real - time,» or «linear,» cable channels, like HBO, Showtime, and Epix; streaming video on - demand channels, like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Seeso, NBCUniversal's new comedy subscription service (and increasingly, services from the linear channels); over-the-top-device companies like Roku, Microsoft (which makes Xbox), Sony (PlayStation), and Apple (Apple TV); and satellite - radio channel Sirius XM.

Disney and other media companies have been hit by the trend of «cord - cutting» as younger viewers increasingly opt for streaming services over cable and satellite TV channels.

It's been four months since Rogers and Shaw, Canada's two biggest cable companies, officially launched Shomi, a Netflix - like streaming service that delivers on - demand TV shows and movies.

If cable companies were once the gods who delivered TV content from their version of Mount Olympus, then the set - top box was their chosen instrument — one to which they alone had access and controlled.

His company later expanded into cable TV and then wired telephony, followed by the now - key wireless division.

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.

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.

That creates a scenario where you could pay a monthly fee for Verizon's mobile internet; pay another fee for its FiOS home internet and / or cable service; pay another fee for its live - TV service; watch a bunch of ad - supported videos on AOL or Yahoo or Oath (or, in a different life, go90); and implicitly pay the company through its beefed - up, deregulated ad network.

Digital powerhouse Vice Media and cable provider Rogers Communications Inc. will team up to launch a Canadian production studio and TV channel aimed at millennials, the companies announced.

Viacom, parent of networks including MTV and Nickelodeon, launched TV ads this week urging its viewers to call customer service at cable company Spectrum ahead of a deadline that may result in a costly blackout for 16.6 million customers.

The subscriber decline, in particular, should concern cable and satellite TV companies.

Netflix sells a service that competes with the TV shows and movies offered by cable Internet providers, and who can forget the warm welcome it got in Canada, in the form of certain Internet providers instantly lowering customers» monthly download limits when the company announced its northward expansion.

Corus — an integrated media company with specialty TV channels of its own, including the W Network, YTV and Treehouse — was spun out of the Shaw cable business back in 1999, when the Shaws didn't think so - called convergence strategies made much sense.

As TV devices like Google's Chromecast and the Roku box proliferate, it becomes easier to stream almost anything to a television, and even cable companies are being pressured by the Federal Communications Commission to open up their set - top boxes to outside providers.

LONDON, April 25 - U.S. cable company Comcast Corp submitted a 22 billion pound offer for pay - TV group Sky on Wednesday, challenging an already agreed but lower takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's Fox.

Given the additional clout cable companies gain by expanding, many TV industry players have asked whether it makes sense for content owners to gain scale of their own.

Rogers and Shaw are now pressing that content advantage, offering up mass titles like Modern Family and American Horror Story which run on the cable companies» channels (Rogers» City TV and FX Canada respectively).

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

The Frisco, Texas - based company makes software for telecoms and cable TV operators.

Hardware is a less recognized area of online video opportunity, but it's one that brothers Jason and Blake Krikorian have turned into a 100 - person company, Sling Media Inc., which sells devices to let people view the same programming on their computers that they get through their cable or satellite TV services.

Altice is the latest cable company trying to become a serious player in advanced TV advertising in the US.

All the FCC wants now is for TV content to get to apps on major streaming devices in the first place — a process many cable companies have already started as more and more customers cut the cord.

The co-op phenomenon has spread across the country to such niches as cable - TV operators, hotels, electrical distributors, insurance companies, rural electric companies, restaurants, and network - services companies.

Last year, the company said it would buy satellite TV provider DirecTV for $ 48.5 billion so it could offer bundles of TV, Internet and phone services — just like cable companies.

Ultimately, though, the prospect of cable companies offering wireless service and wireless companies offering video TV service could be bad for investors in both industries, until the market sorts out the long - term winners, Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves says.

Would you accept that from your Internet, cable TV, or mobile phone company?

Plus, it's unlikely that cable companies will be able to push a 4K video signal through the existing cable TV infrastructure, so internet streaming or 4K Blu - Ray is the only way to watch 4K content in the foreseeable future.

That makes AT&T the largest pay TV provider in the country, which also puts the company the most at risk from cord cutting, cord shaving and other cleverly - labeled phenomenon that all add up to customers dropping a cable or satellite subscription.

Increased costs: As TV networks like CBS and cable companies like Comcast launch their own streaming services, they are becoming less reliant on Netflix, so the company is focusing on creating its own shows.

And the company offers a $ 25 credit for unlimited data mobile subscribers who also buy any of its TV services, whether delivered by satellite, cable, or Internet app.

Google is hardly the first company to run into cost issues while trying to provide consumer Internet and cable TV service, even before the era of high - speed fiber optic connections.

On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed a new technology mandate that would require satellite and cable TV providers to disaggregate or separate their services so that a few companies could repackage them as their own without negotiating for content rights like everybody else in the market does today.

The company, majority owned by Walt Disney Co., has lost 3.2 million subscribers in a little over a year, according to Nielsen data, as people have «cut the cord» by dropping their cable - TV subscriptions or downgraded to cheaper, slimmed - down TV packages devoid of expensive sports channels like ESPN.