The streaming service does not release viewer data, saying that doing so is irrelevant to its business because it does not sell advertising or negotiate
with cable operators for channel position.
The deal will create the fourth largest
cable operator in the U.S. Cablevision's board is being investigated over dealings with the acquisition.
Some media and telecommunications deals in recent years have been announced with divestitures, such as
U.S. cable operator Comcast's proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable in 2014, which was later called off after regulatory pushback.
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Comcast agreed in February to acquire Time Warner Cable in an all - stock deal worth more than $ 45 billion that would combine the two
largest cable operators in the US.
«As a challenger, T - Mobile will continue to pick away at companies (
including cable operators) that have to protect their high - margin, free cash - flow - generating businesses.
With the proposed merger of Time Warner Cable and Comcast, there's a growing fear that giant
cable operators as well as internet...
Reuters reports that U.S.
cable operator Comcast Corp. is asking investment banks to increase a bridge financing...
It's why the largest wireless operators are spending millions of dollars each year in lobbying to make sure rules for new spectrum auctions are written in a way that favors their interests, and it's why there has been so much wheeling and dealing around Verizon's move to buy wireless spectrum from a consortium
of cable operators.
The migration of original programming online has been among the biggest themes in entertainment over the last few months, with House of Cards
making cable operators stand up and take notice as audiences adjust to watching entertainment on computers and mobile devices.
The head of Germany's Federal Network Regulator, BNetzA, may impose such a requirement if he
finds cable operators dominate regional markets.
A
leading cable operator in Europe needed a solution that would reduce errors and lessen the time it took agents to manually re-set their customers» set - top boxes after a service outage.
U.S.
cable operator Charter Communications said on March 31 it had agreed to buy smaller rival Bright House Networks for $ 10.4 billion.
If Intelsat will have to compete with other satellite operators, but also increasingly with fibre
optic cable operators that will apply high - density routes based pricing systems, will the integrated global pricing system of Intelsat survive?
Opening on VOD Nationwide on Tuesday, July 11 on all major platforms includingiTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Microsoft, Vudu, Comcast, Charter, Cox, Vimeo, and various
other cable operators.
Davis Polk & Wardwell and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have been instructed to advise on
US cable operator Comcast's # 22.1 bn bid for Sky, which challenges an existing offer from 21st Century Fox.
BelAir has been successful with
domestic cable operators because it can hang its Strand access point directly off the fiber - coax strung across fiber utility in any city, making it very easy for a cable company to get Wi - Fi up quickly and cheaply.
Comcast agreed in February to acquire Time Warner Cable in an all - stock deal worth more than $ 45 billion that would combine the two
largest cable operators in the US.
Deregulation of broadcasting in the U.S. and the Federal Communications Commission's apparent indifference to the practices of broadcast licensees and
cable operators in effect seem to legitimize the operation of these media as businesses like any other business, disregarding the public trusteeship that is required by the Communications Act.
At the same time,
small cable operators are grappling with the changing demands of consumers, who are leaning toward over-the-top (OTT) streaming options.
If Verizon's deal
with cable operators is approved by regulators, T - Mobile will buy some of Verizon's AWS spectrum holdings in certain markets.
Little known in Europe, Philadelphia - based Comcast is the biggest
U.S. cable operator, owning broadcasters NBC, CNBC and MSNBC.
Those cable operators include Comcast, which announced wireless service Xfinity Mobile in April, although it said its aim isn't to compete with the wireless carriers.
While NABU went broke, thanks in part to
cable operators, AOL thrived because it was able to take advantage of telecommunications lines, designated as common carrier utilities:
Critics argue that, with
the cable operators also offering high - speed internet to households and businesses, a merged business should, like Deutsche Telekom, have to open access to its network to ensure sufficient competition.
Comcast - Universal with the NBC transition: The part that is different — certainly there are similarities in that you're buying a content producer and the various media assets that NBC Universal had — however, NBC was a broadcaster, which is a form of distribution, which was being bought by Comcast, which was
a cable operator trying to buy media.
But this wasn't the type of vertical merger like Comcast's 2011 purchase of NBC Universal, he said, which combined
a cable operator and a broadcaster, and it is not akin to a merger of direct competitors like DirectTV and Dish Network.
Little known in Europe, Philadelphia - based Comcast is the biggest U.S.
cable operator, owning...
The deal combines the third and second largest U.S.
cable operators to better compete against market leader Comcast Corp..
Time Warner controlled Time Warner Cable Inc. for years, but spun off its position in
the cable operator in 2009.
As an example, he said that
cable operators should invest in new technologies that would allow people to watch TV episodes weeks after they have been broadcast, but allow advertisers to insert up - to - date commercials.
The joint filing by Disney and Fox, which outlines the timeline of their negotiations, offers the most detailed insight yet into Fox's thinking, as it goes head - to - head against Comcast, a U.S.
cable operator, in its bid to acquire European pay - TV company Sky Plc (SKYB.L), in which Fox holds a 39 percent stake.
Working with
the cable operator, Conduent implemented the Conduent Automation Suite (CAS) a combination of process optimization, consulting and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to re-set the balance between manual and automated tasks.
The cable operator now has a solution that leverages the unique strengths of humans and software bots to provide better business outcomes.