Sentences with phrase «cable companies in»

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All the cable companies in the area run good deals from time to time, so I can just sign on when I see one.

If a deal is struck it could pave the wave for a similar arrangement with cable companies in Canada, Mr. Nasr says.

That includes three of the top five global media companies, two of the largest cable companies in North America, and a top five global investment bank.

No cable company in the world is going to drop it unless they want their houses burned down.

ABL Electronics, a $ 7 - million cable company in Hunt Valley, Md., had reported a great month, making ABL's 10 sales reps a little richer.

The deal will create the second largest cable company in the U.S., with 17 million video subscribers, behind only Comcast with 22 million.

The company had also purchased the smaller Bright House Networks cable company in a related deal for $ 10.4 billion.

The offer by Comcast, the largest cable company in the US, to merge with the second largest operator, TWC, will be closely scrutinized by federal antitrust regulators.

Universal is owned by Comcast, the largest broadcasting and cable company in the world by revenue.

Although the 40 - year - old earns a healthy $ 75,000 a year working for a cable company in Hamilton, Ont., he doesn't have much left after paying child support and his mortgage.

So even if there's only one cable company in your location, DIRECTV can provide a level of competition, giving you a choice in pay - TV providers.

If that doesn't work, and there's another cable company in your area, consider moving over to their services at a promotional rate.

Not exact matches

Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves estimated that the top 8 cable companies lost 463,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2015 compared to a decline of 141,000 for the second quarter last year.

The grand plan is that the company will eventually have content available on the full range of media platforms anywhere in the world, from traditional print publications and cable channels to snappy websites with streaming video suitable for hand - held devices, as well as downloadable digital magazines.

«As an entrepreneur, I have had products and services shut out of closed cable networks, and as a venture capitalist, I've invested in companies that would not have been able to innovate if these network were not open.»

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.

Nextgen Group has upped its investment in a telecommunications cable servicing resources companies in Western Australia's north - west.

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.

He envisions a world in which people have avatar systems sitting around in their closets, waiting for a doctor or cable company to come in and perform a house call or fix your WiFi.

But someone clearly forgot to tell Comcast that its cable business is supposed to be shrinking — in the latest quarter, the company added more subscribers than it has in almost a decade.

Three companies are in the running to build the second submarine telecommunications cable connecting Western Australia with international networks.

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.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings sat down with Business Insider Poland's Adam Turek in Rome this week to discuss a few recent developments for the company, including its new partnership with the European cable network Sky and its decision to pull out of the Cannes Film Festival.

Now that major cable and Internet companies (usually one in the same) have pressured the FCC to create fast lanes and slow lanes on the Information Superhighway — Google and Verizon requested net neutrality exemption for wireless Internet just last month — small businesses» online presence is in serious jeopardy.

Revenue in Disney's cable networks business, which includes the company's cash cow ESPN and the youth - focused Disney Channel, fell 6.8 % to $ 3.96 billion.

The company has more than $ 2 billion in available liquidity that it can spend on its wired and wireless networks under its Videotron division, in expanded cable offerings, and share buybacks, he said.

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

Mark Gordon, who is so sold on the Predictive Index that at all times he carries minigraphs of the test results from each of his staff members, says the testing came in particularly handy when, in late 1996, he merged with a network - cabling company.

Hall said cable and satellite companies are hindered somewhat in making the changes on their own.

Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

The company, based in South Glens Falls, New York, sells starter packages from $ 377 that include all the necessary controllers, software and cables to get started.

Since HBO first went on the air in 1972, it has been tied down by cable companies who require viewers to pay for expensive packages even if they just wanted the HBO channel.

In a recent public statement about the move, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler — who happens to be a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association — said that for too long, the set - top box has been a boon for cable and satellite companies but a bane for users.

In the second group are existing cable and satellite companies, who will be making a number of arguments about why this opening up isn't necessary — including the argument that they are already opening up themselves and therefore don't need the FCC to barge in and wreck thingIn the second group are existing cable and satellite companies, who will be making a number of arguments about why this opening up isn't necessary — including the argument that they are already opening up themselves and therefore don't need the FCC to barge in and wreck thingin and wreck things.

While the HBO service won't be immediately available in Canada, it demonstrates that the U.S. company is prepared to follow a growing number of viewers who are cancelling their cable in favour of services like Netflix.

TORONTO — HBO's plans to launch a stand - alone streaming service in the United States that will let viewers sidestep their cable company to watch popular shows like «Game of Thrones» and «True Detective» could be just a few years away from posing a similar threat to Canadian telecoms.

In defending its merger plan, Comcast is saying its real competition is no longer other cable companies, but rather so - called over-the-top Internet service providers such as Netflix, which is the same rationale Bell used in Canada with its acquisition of broadcaster Astral last yeaIn defending its merger plan, Comcast is saying its real competition is no longer other cable companies, but rather so - called over-the-top Internet service providers such as Netflix, which is the same rationale Bell used in Canada with its acquisition of broadcaster Astral last yeain Canada with its acquisition of broadcaster Astral last year.

The cable companies are almost gleeful in pointing out the advantages their service will have, with the press release asking viewers if they're tired «of endless scrolling» or «outdated series» — clear digs at Netflix.

The move to streaming services has led to a significant decline in subscribers for the country's cable companies, including market leader Rogers with its 5.2 million subscribers.

Pai has long maintained that the FCC under former Chairman Thomas Wheeler had overstepped its bounds, suggesting that he would steer the agency in a direction more favorable to big phone and cable companies.

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.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Nicole Lapin talks about how you can save big money, simply by calling up your utility, phone and cable companies and asking them to give you a discount.

Referring to Ailes, Estrich said «his mood is OK» and she added that what Ailes wants most is for «Fox News to continue to be the No. 1 news station and the No. 1 cable station in the company.»

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.