Sentences with phrase «cable company time»

Comcast's proposed acquisition of fellow cable company Time Warner was the largest at $ 45 billion.

Americans could see even less, or at least a more concentrated situation, with Comcast's current effort to merge with fellow cable company Time Warner.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Vice had not provided updates on its offline intentions until today, but rumours of a takeover attempt by conventional broadcasting companies Time Warner and Fox served to keep the news channel - speculation alive, because being absorbed into a traditional media conglomerate would give Vice easy access to their cable networks and partners.

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.

Amazon has long competed with Netflix as a cable alternative, but by bringing pay - per - view options to its service, it could be targeting companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable as well.

Remember the time you had to call your cable company and you talked to that lovely gal from marketing?

For a long time, recurring billing was the purview of cell phone providers, cable companies, or SaaS businesses.

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.

So leagues and franchises are exploring things like the Yahoo deal, and at the same time, companies like Google (GOOG) and Yahoo are looking at ways to market themselves as an alternative to cable networks and traditional broadcast platforms.

And while you can do mundane things while waiting on hold when you call the cable, phone or electric company, it really is a) annoying and b) the classic waste of time.

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.

Charter Communications confirmed Tuesday it will purchase Time Warner Cable for $ 55 billion in a deal that would merge the second and third biggest U.S. cable companies and create a larger rival to Comcast Corp..

Disney might have to divest a cable channel or two (the company's power over distributors would be even stronger; basically the opposite of the some of the concerns that halted the Comcast acquisition of Time Warner), and potentially be limited in its ability to make operational decisions about Hulu (Disney would have a controlling stake after the merger; Comcast was similarly restricted after acquiring NBC Universal, but there the concern was more about Comcast's conflict of interest with regards to its cable TV business competing with Hulu).

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.

For Dish, today's comments reveal merely a change in executive linguistics; the company, in its advertising, has been directly targeting traditional cable for some time, evidenced by its national campaign of TV ads starring tough - guy character actor Danny Trejo.

But Mr. Lee and others argue that the recent spate of large deals, which also include the $ 16 billion merger of cable companies Liberty Global Inc. and Virgin Media Inc., and the $ 18.1 billion to be spent by Comcast Corp. to buy General Electric Corp. out of broadcaster NBC Universal, are more than coincidental timing.

(Reuters)- Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) reported a bigger - than - expected drop in quarterly revenue as subscription revenue for its cable channel HBO and Turner television network disappointed Wall Street, sending the company's shares down as much as 9.8 percent.

Many of our cable companies returned more than 50 % — Comcast, Time Warner, Disney and Discovery.

Detailing his rationale for the proposed merger, which has been opposed by the Department of Justice on antitrust grounds, Stephenson denied allegations that AT&T would use control of Time Warner to disadvantage other cable companies by making itself the exclusive content distributor of Time Warner content.

This step would involve a commitment by all «member» cable companies to make the ratings available in all advance information, schedules, and promotion as well as on the screen at the time of showing, as recommended for television broadcasting stations.

Ten business and financial corporations control the three major television and radio networks (NBC, CBS, ABC), 34 subsidiary television stations, 201 cable TV systems, 62 radio stations, 20 record companies, 59 magazines including Time and Newsweek, 58 newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, 41 book publishers, and various motion picture companies like Columbia Pictures and Twentieth - Century Fox.

Two years after the Annenberg - Gallup study was released, Pat Robertson «s CBN commissioned the A. C. Nielsen Company to measure the electronic church viewing audience again, including, for the first time, the cable - TV viewers, since CBN is carried on thousands of cable systems.

This step would involve a commitment on the part of all «member» cable companies to make the ratings available in all advance information, schedules and promotion as well as on the screen at the time of showing, as recommended for television broadcasting stations.

If your favorites aren't on at the right time, record them, use TiVo or your cable company's on - demand programming, or pop in a DVD you've okayed rather than letting your child watch whatever's on.

A spokesman for the company pointed out that as of Monday, the cables have been cut 137 times since the strike began.

After a bid from the nation's largest cable provider, Comcast, to purchase Time Warner Cable was dropped earlier this year, Charter Communications made an offer to buy the company, a merger that is now pending review by federal regulators.

The Justice Department has called on AT&T and Time Warner to sell Turner Broadcasting, the group of cable channels that includes CNN, as a potential requirement for approving the companies» pending $ 85.4 billion deal.

A list of the House races for which Democrats have asked broadcasters and cable companies to reserve $ 44 million in ad time provides a revealing look at the shape of the midterm election landscape this fall.

The Charter cable company now officially owns Time Warner Cable and another operator, Bright House.

The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies control over what we see and do It's no longer just your clicks they want, it's your time and attention.

The Company has built a strong television presence in production of prime time cable and broadcast network series, distribution and syndication of programming through Debmar - Mercury and an array of channel assets.

The application has several limitations however: You can only access the ESPN channels if you are currently a subscriber via your cable company (and only some qualify, like Time Warner Cable, Bright Hose Networks and Verizon FIOS), you can access ESPN3 if you have Verizon FIOS and just about everyone else is out of luck.

You can switch providers most of the time, but just letting your cable or internet company know that you're thinking about it may give you a lower rate.

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

Whether it's your credit card bill or your cable bill, pay your bills on time so you can show the credit card company that you are financially responsible.

So this might shrink cable's influence on the company's bottom line over time, which, in my view, wouldn't totally be a bad thing.

Ever since the company first wooed me as a kid with the Nintendo 64, I was always ready to buy into whatever the latest Nintendo hype happened to be (and hey, that's still true — I did buy a Wii U after all), so by the time Four Swords Adventures came around I had already invested in a couple of GCN - to - GBA cables.

As a child, Feuer spent time interning at a theatre company, and her current use of materials including cast and painted foam, aircraft cable, and other commercial products, seems informed by her youthful experiences with set design.

so, to try the analogy one more time — you want to get cable installed so you call up the cable company and ask for service.

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

Whether it's your credit card bill or your cable bill, pay your bills on time so you can show the credit card company that you are financially responsible.

The cable TV subscription model gave companies that money for a long time: households paid anywhere from $ 50 to $ 150 a month for content, and watched advertising on top of that.

Tags Broadband cable & telecom companies Jeff Bewkes media & publishing PaidContent technologies / formats Time Warner Turner TV

By the time I discovered Roku, I was pretty fed up with negotiating with my cable company for promotions to keep the cable bill down.

But Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes, about to shed the dual role of heading a company that owns a cable operator as well as cable networks, has a different goal in mind: serving all of his multichannel constituents and saving the programming world with «TV Everywhere,» a plan he explained to AdAge.

«They're basically going to win by forcing higher prices on all the smaller cable companies,» he told the E-Commerce Times.

«The picture is about three times better than cable,» says Geoff Tebbutt, who runs the Toronto - based installation company The Antenna Guys.