Sentences with phrase «cable tv providers»

I suspect in the end cable TV providers will of course move towards offering their TV...

This doesn't work with some major cable TV providers, including Comcast and Spectrum, and not every app supports the feature, but it's still a time - saver when it works.

And cable TV providers could offer apps that let you change the channel without using a remote, by saying something like «Alexa, tune to HBO.»

To the cable TV providers of the world: Please help me stop paying for rotting cabbages.

Some larger cities will have multiple cable TV providers, and when they compete with each other, prices drop quickly.

DIRECTV is a satellite pay - TV provider, similar to cable TV providers.

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.

By end of 2017, a collective 22.2 million Americans had already said «bye - bye» to their cable TV providers, representing a 33.2 % increase in declines when compared to the year before.

For cable TV providers it was fiber to the home.

Given these exciting, pro-consumer marketplace developments, it is perplexing that the FCC is now considering a proposal that would impose new government technology mandates on satellite and cable TV providers with the purported goal of promoting device options for consumers.

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.

Charter Spectrum is a no - contract cable TV provider with three package options: Select, Silver, and Gold.

Comcast Xfinity is a no - contract, cable TV provider.

Rather than using a wire to carry the video signal to your home (as would a cable TV provider), DIRECTV sends the signal through the air.

Just give them a call and tell them to transfer you to the retention department, kind of like what you have to do with your cable TV provider every other month.

Still, if you live within 30 miles of the TV towers (and even within 50 miles in some situations) it's possible to find an effective, and even economical, indoor TV antenna that will help you watch local broadcasts in full HD without shelling out a dime to a cable TV provider.

Not exact matches

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.

As growing numbers of TV watchers either cut the cord entirely or opt for what cable providers like to call «skinny bundles,» ESPN's iron grip on viewers and subscribers is being questioned in a way it never has in the past.

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.

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.

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 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.

«Now, just as Verizon promised it would in court, the biggest broadband providers will race to turn the open and vibrant Web into something that looks like cable TV.

Large cable providers like Time Warner, meanwhile, have the potential to make up for some of their cord - cutting losses on the TV side through higher fees for their Internet service - provider business, since those who stream Netflix and other services tend to use up a lot more data by doing so.

More significantly, the new plan calls for pay TV providers and programmers to create a standard license for getting cable apps onto third - party devices, instead of allowing them to negotiate different terms with each device manufacturer.

The idea here, as it was when the FCC first voted to «open up» the set - top box in February, is to make it so you don't have to lease a cable box from a cable provider to watch cable TV programming.

Sources told Reuters last week that Disney was in the lead to acquire the assets, which include Fox's FX and National Geographic cable channels, its movie studio, the Star network in India and stake in European pay - TV provider Sky.

For example, if your cable provider is Time Warner (TWC), you can access WatchESPN only if you have ESPN in your TV package.

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.

We have your favorite CNBC Prime Shows On Demand through your cable / satellite provider or via your Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, or Android.

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.

Still, AT&T (t) has to strike a careful balance in promoting Internet video, as it's also the largest pay TV provider in the country, with its DirecTV satellite offering and U-Verse wired cable service.

This would not mark the first time that an online - only content provider saved a TV series that had previously been cancelled by a traditional broadcast or cable network.

Disputes between pay - TV providers and sports team - owned TV networks over skyrocketing rights fees may signal a new era as customers are becoming frustrated with rising cable bills.

After years of talks and negotiations with partners — including major sports leagues and TV providers — Rogers has crafted the streaming option carefully to try to ensure that it does not cannibalize the still - lucrative cable TV business.

This is also the second biggest pay cable TV and internet provider company.

It also airs on major cable providers like Comcast and Time Warner and on local affiliates like Atlanta's WAGA - TV where the program ranks number two in its time slot, which is quite an achievement in a top ten market with about 14 local stations.

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

Most digital political professionals will think of voter file / cookie - targeting or IP - targeted online ads when the word «addressable» comes up, but more and more cable and satellite TV providers can now direct ads at specific households based on demographic or voter data.

The New York State Public Service Commission is taking legal action against the parent company of a local cable television and internet provider, threatening a million - dollar fine and possible re-evaluation of its cable TV franchise deal in New York City.

But radio, TV, satellite and cable providers would also be required make disclosures as well.

50 * 50 Cent's TV series «Power» may losing a huge portion of its viewership in the New York area, as cable provider Optimum has decided to sever ties

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Among those new features is a dual - headrest rear seat entertainment system capable of streaming live TV through your home cable or satellite provider.

It's true that you can't do any DVR style recording with Sling TV, but we have services like Hulu Plus for that (meaning for under $ 30 a month, you get first run television along with a library of stuff that has already aired)-- even paying for both, you are still coming out ahead of the cost for competitive cable packages from leading providers (not to mention the added streaming conveniences).

The numbers provide new support for efforts by broadcasters, cable channels and multichannel providers to provide second screen apps or synch apps that can enhance the viewing experience of live TV.

Starting today, all Canadian TV providers must offer low - price «skinny» basic cable packages, as mandated by the CRTC.

The «essential categories» number fifteen, and include gas, grocery and drug stores, as well as telecommunication charges, cable / satellite TV / Internet Service Providers, utility payments, gym / health club memberships, spas / salons, quick service payment / fast food restaurants, video rentals, department stores, dry cleaners, movie theatres, local and suburban commuter passenger transportation (including ferries, bridges, tolls, parking garages, taxis / limos), and pet supply stores / veterinary services.

Launched as a cooperative effort with Equifax and Lexis - Nexis Risk Solutions, FICO XD uses any credit bureau information available to assess risk, but also adds other information sources to assess responsible behavior — payment histories from vendors such as cable TV and cell phone providers, public records, and property data.

For starters, for TV service, Verizon FiOS uses fiber - optic technology, which is supposed to be superior, offering more clarity, speed, and reliability than the copper wire technology that cable providers use.