Sentences with phrase «cable companies say»

Most of the other dozen cable companies say they intend to set up services within the next year.

The result will be «more bang, less blah,» the cable companies say.

«We understand why a deal is attractive for SoftBank, but Charter has no interest in acquiring Sprint,» the cable company said in a statement.

And my cable company says it's not their problem because the internet is working to my apartment.

Not exact matches

Shares started to dip Monday after the company said it would not renew an agreement with cable network Epix, which means a long list of popular movies, including The Hunger Games, will disappear from the site at the end of this month.

Politico reports that sources say the Justice Department has not explicitly demanded that AT&T sell CNN along with the rest of Turner, but that the company is interpreting regulators» request for «structural remedies» as pressure to shed the cable news network.

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.

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.

«It was important that we retain the [cabling company's] management team and have it mesh with my team effectively,» he says.

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

It's true that the cable and satellite companies have been trying to adapt — including launching apps for various platforms — but it's probably fair to say the industry has been pushed rather than leapt on its own accord.

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.

The company said that affected users may discover that their faulty cables «may not charge or only charge intermittently» when connected to a power adapter.

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 year.

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.»

If Quebecor manages to land the cable licence it wants, Doctor says the idea makes sense because subscriber fees will provide another revenue source while the company grows its digital business.

NBCUniversal has a lot of ad space to fill, too, as the company says it will produce 6,755 hours of Olympics coverage over the next two weeks across its family of broadcast and cable networks, plus streaming.

Bissonette says competition between the two Shaw - controlled content outfits is a non-issue, noting the company's cable business competes with its satellite offering.

Comcast's NBCUniversal is shutting down its Esquire Network cable channel, one month after it was dropped by DirecTV, and will re-launch it this spring as a digital - only brand, the company said on Wednesday.

For instance, the company could do away with a cable - based charging port, though Jason Snell, editor of Apple news site and podcast Six Colors, and former MacWorld editor, said such a change would make the devices more difficult to repair since most basic repairs require connecting the iPhone to an external computer.

When asked where they go to consume sports - related video content, the 25 to 34 - year - old group still predominantly says ESPN (the cable channel or the company's apps): 58 % list ESPN and 52 % list Facebook.

«We are planning as if both of these deals go through,» he said, adding that CBS had invested heavily in sports content that cable and satellite companies will want to have.

Meanwhile, Craig Aaron, president and CEO of the net neutrality advocacy group Free Press also voiced dissatisfaction with the ruling, saying it allows phone and cable companies to «block and discriminate» against their customers» communications.

On Thursday morning, he told CNBC's Kayla Tausche that «this is a decision that the Supreme Court rendered which said that Aereo was «like» a cable company... we're an investor in it — absolutely.»

Viacom, meanwhile, looks even weaker: Two of its long - established channels, MTV and Nickolodeon, have been losing viewers rapidly, and analysts say the company is particularly vulnerable going into negotiations with cable providers, where it will bargain for the right to be included in their bundles.

The merger will allow AT&T / Time Warner to negotiate for even higher prices for Turner content than Time Warner could before the merger because the merged firm can credibly commit to walking away from a deal if, say, cable company A balks at the price.

Disney CEO Bob Iger explicitly rejected cord - cutting fears on the company's conference call, saying the cord - cutting phenomenon has been overblown, and that the «cable bundle» will remain the dominant force in broadcasting for some time.

Vusirikala said that cloud computing providers and other tech companies with vast data center infrastructure have increased the pace of laying undersea fiber - optic cables over the last three years.

The construction of the new «MAREA» cable will begin in August and it is expected to be completed in October 2017, the companies said in a statement on Thursday.

«I can only assume if there was a lot of demand for Sun News, the cable and satellite companies would have been falling over themselves to put it on the air,» Waddell says.

Net neutrality, he said, is basically about cable companies trying to gouge consumers.

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.

British mobile operator Vodafone said on Wednesday it had made an offer to buy Germany's biggest cable company Kabel Deutschland.

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.

According to Re / Code, Cuban said at the conference he would, however, not be opposed to Congress pushing through legislation that prohibits cable companies from discriminating against certain websites.

For example, let's say you're a cable company.

It said that TV stations and broadcasters would be allowed to keep simsub «for the time being,» although cable and satellite companies would no longer be permitted to perform it on specialty channels.

And that's why Malone said «it's way too late» for the cable companies to band together to stop Netflix.»

His mea culpa on cable television came a few hours after he acknowledged his company's mistakes in a Facebook post, but without saying he was sorry.

When correcting the model to include current profit margins, the effects of cord cutting, the impact of Turner's current contracts with pay - TV companies and other factors, Petrocelli said, Shapiro's model shows that cable bills would actually decrease by 54 cents per month per subscriber.

Tesla is taking a «proactive measure» out of an «abundance of caution,» the company says, in handling an issue with a cable used in the adjusting of second - row seating in a small percent of Model X vehicles.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will seek to ban cable companies from throttling access to certain kinds of broadband data and seeking payments to prioritize some content over others, he said Wednesday.

It is also an investor in cable company Discovery Communications Inc (DISCA.O), which sources have said is engaged in merger talks with Scripps Networks Interactive Inc SNI.O.

LONDON The independent directors of pay - TV group Sky said they were withdrawing their recommendation of a takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's Fox after U.S. cable company Comcast Corp trumped it with a 22 billion pound ($ 30.68 billion) offer.

Although private cable TV and telephone companies raised concerns about competing with a government utility, Ferguson said EPB has paid tax equivalent payments to local governments sufficient to make EPB the top payer in Hamilton County of local taxes.

Shares of the Walt Disney Company fell after the company said in its third - quarter report that issues at ESPN impacted operating income for its cable buCompany fell after the company said in its third - quarter report that issues at ESPN impacted operating income for its cable bucompany said in its third - quarter report that issues at ESPN impacted operating income for its cable business.

Google announced that the city would be the inaugural site for its «Fiber for Communities» program, which it says will be able to deliver Internet access more than 100 times faster than the home broadband connections provided by phone and cable companies across the country.

But Disney's struggles, which had seemed immaterial just three months ago, were clearly highlighted by 1.2 % decline in operating income at it cable networks over the company's past three fiscal quarters, said BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield in an investor note.

«We felt that given the importance of ESPN to the company and cable networks in general, it was important for us to be candid about what we see in the environment,» Iger said.

The FCC has also paused its review of AT&T's proposed purchase of DirecTV, suspending its deadlines for comments, saying that there have been arguments by programmers over the disclosure of their contracts with the cable and TV companies.