The Justice Department already cleared the deal, which will create a company with about 26 million
cable and satellite subscribers.
Not exact matches
The
subscriber decline, in particular, should concern
cable and satellite TV companies.
Having Viacom content helps Charter add video
subscribers at a time of increasing competition from virtual streaming services like Hulu
and DirecTV Now, while Viacom is still heavily dependent on
cable and satellite companies for distribution, according to Evercore ISI.
The move would combine Time Warner's vast collection of content, from movies to
cable TV networks, with AT&T's sprawling network of
cable,
satellite and phone
subscribers.
Broadcasters including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC
and PBS sued Aereo for copyright infringement, saying Aereo should pay for redistributing the programming in the same way
cable and satellite systems must or risk high - profile blackouts of channels that anger their
subscribers.
AT&T's U-verse
cable TV offering
and its DirecTV
satellite TV service have more than 25 million
subscribers combined.
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.
In the second quarter,
cable and satellite providers like Comcast
and Dish Network (DISH) continued to have trouble holding onto
subscribers.
While Aereo was a small service with only tens of thousands of
subscribers, broadcasters worried that
cable and satellite companies could create similar technologies
and avoid paying retransmission fees, which total almost $ 5 billion annually, according to SNL Kagan.
Due largely in part to NFL Sunday Ticket, DIRECTV is the
satellite market leader
and is gaining on the
cable subscriber base as well.
In the first three months of the year,
cable and satellite services lost about 762,000
subscribers, about five times as many the same period last year, according to research firm MoffettNathanson.
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Bolton's committee agreed to communicate over
satellite - television systems like Dish
and DirecTV, which, unlike broadcast
and most
cable systems, permitted ads to be assigned differently to specific
subscribers, allowing Cambridge Analytica to fully exploit the benefit of its individual - level modeling.
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cable or
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and other
cable - only provided channels.