Sentences with phrase «of cable and satellite»

We don't know the terms of the cable and satellite agreements and operating leases and so it is impossible to determine whether the «contractual cash obligations» are absolute or contingent on VVTV continuing to use the services contracted.

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Fox News is a U.S. cable and satellite news television channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

From cable to satellite to streaming online, and from 80 - inch screens in the living room to 4 - inch ones in our palms, nearly every part of the entertainment industry is being transformed.

A report from the Convergence Consulting Group revealed the number of Canadian households that pay for cable and satellite declined by 0.7 % in 2014.

Disney and other media companies have been hit by the trend of «cord - cutting» as younger viewers increasingly opt for streaming services over cable and satellite TV channels.

Given these exciting, pro-consumer marketplace developments, it is perplexing that the FCC is now considering a proposal that would impose new government technology mandates on satellite and cable TV providers with the purported goal of promoting device options for consumers.

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 things.

Still, the growth of the Internet services won't make up for all of the revenue lost from the cable and satellite cuts.

For example, 79 % of households paid for traditional cable or satellite service in last year's annual survey by the Leichtman Research Group, down from 84 % three years earlier and the all - time peak of 88 % in 2010.

From sources that the studios at one time claimed would put them out of business: Pay - per - view TV, cable and satellite channels, video rentals, DVD sales, online subscriptions, and digital downloads.

Some of the contracts cable and satellite providers have signed with heavyweights like Disney and Fox are loaded with fine print designed to stop new bundles like this.

There's an added level of urgency to Viacom's dispute with Dish, because if it agrees to accept lower rates from the satellite company, that could have a ripple effect on the deals it has with other satellite and cable distributors.

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.

And while that's likely to be music to the ears of cord cutters, it's a solid jab to cable and satellite companies, as well as other streaming servicAnd while that's likely to be music to the ears of cord cutters, it's a solid jab to cable and satellite companies, as well as other streaming servicand satellite companies, as well as other streaming services.

«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.

If AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner holds up in court, Comcast could decide it has a chance to make a once - in - a-lifetime acquisition of a large production studio and influential international content assets, including a stake in the European satellite service Sky and the Indian cable network Star.

Hardware is a less recognized area of online video opportunity, but it's one that brothers Jason and Blake Krikorian have turned into a 100 - person company, Sling Media Inc., which sells devices to let people view the same programming on their computers that they get through their cable or satellite TV services.

As Adam notes the forces of change engulfing Hollywood, the rate of consumers cutting the cord and dropping their cable and satellite TV packages hit an all - time high.

The ruling preserves the ability of the television networks to collect huge fees from cable and satellite systems that transmit their programming.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

As the trial over AT&T's purchase of Time Warner continued Tuesday, Turner executive Richard Warren said it would face greater risks than cable, satellite and online video providers during a showdown over fees.

The deal's announcement was expected last week, but not all of A&E's distribution partners — the cable and satellite TV companies that carry the network's channels — have signed off on the change, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks were private.

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Vine, Pinterest, Path, Tagged, Medium, blog, video blog, podcast, blogtalk, terrestrial radio, satellite radio, network TV, cable TV, Live big audience, Live small audience (Meet - up), and the list of stages goes on and on.

The 2002 law, usually called McCain - Feingold, banned the broadcast, cable or satellite transmission of «electioneering communications» paid for by corporations or labor unions from their general funds in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general elections.

If requested, the platforms (cable and satellite distribution companies) were obligated to substitute the Canadian ads on the US feed of the program distributed in Canada, so that a Canadian viewer, whether watching «Friends» (as an example) on either NBC or a Canadian network, saw the same Canadian ads.

On Nov. 6, CNBC reported that Walt Disney had held talks with Fox about buying most of its movie and cable TV assets, and its 39 percent stake in European satellite broadcaster Sky.

Murdoch is the last of the media moguls who rose to power in the latter part of the last century, part of a colorful cohort that includes Sumner Redstone, John Malone and Barry Diller, merciless executives who forged the TV industry as cable and satellite became the dominant platform for entertainment.

The incident happened last Thursday, not long after the 4 p.m. release of the CRTC's so - called «pick - and - pay» decision, which will give consumers more freedom to choose cable and satellite TV channels.

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.

The Cable Network Programming segment consists of the production and licensing of programming distributed through cable television systems and direct broadcast satellite operators.

The face of broadcast television, at least the part that makes money from cable and satellite providers, may be about to change.

The reason I believe DIRECTV NOW is well suited for people who have been using cable or satellite TV for a long time is that it offers a big selection of channels and it includes the traditional grid guide for navigating through the channels to find something to watch.

(In lieu of normative definitions here is an incomplete list of new developments which have emerged in the last 20 years: news satellites, color television, cable relay television, cassettes, videotape, videotape recorders, video - phones, stereophony, laser techniques, electrostatic reproduction processes, electronic high - speed printing, composing and learning machines, microfiches with electronic access, printing by radio, time - sharing computers, data banks.

So after four years of living with super-basic cable, Dan and I finally broke down and got satellite TV.

It is a world of fast food joints and digital satellite cable, Lamborghini Diablos and 15 - pound remote controls.

It is not merely a question of whether we will use TV, satellite communications, cable and computer, or biofeedback machines — and whatever technology comes tomorrow.

The result was the rapid buying up of stations by large networks, which made possible the centralization of power in the hands of only a few multinational corporations who now own every part of the broadcasting system — radio, TV, cable, and satellite.

Control of international communication cables and satellites, development of technology, and access to information is firmly in First World hands.

Also, the Canadian Task Force recommends the creation of «TV Canada,» a new satellite - to - cable service which would be non-commercial and would focus on «redressing the present imbalance that favours foreign [American] programs.

The «Christ of culture» view of many fundamentalists explains why this segment of Christianity has been so quick to grasp every new communication technique as it came along — first radio, then shortwave, motion pictures, television, and, more recently, cable, satellite TV, and videocassettes.

The deal between Li Ka - shing and Murdoch was largely motivated by the pressure on his network caused by the announcement of Turner (CNN which spends some US$ 15 million to develop production capacity in Asia), Time - Warner's Home Box Office (on cable in some eight Asian countries), Capital Cities / ABC ESPN (the sports network), the Discovery Channel, and Hong Kong - based Television Broadcasting Inc. to compete with Star TV in 1994 after the launch of a Chinese communications satellite.

Recent breakthroughs in satellite broadcasting and cable TV have expanded the options for reaching even larger audiences through a broader range of programs broadcast on an extended schedule with continually declining per - unit cost.

TBN reaches every major continent via 84 satellite channels and over 18,000 television and cable affiliates around the world.In addition to TBN, Dr. Crouch developed and oversees operations for TBN's affiliated television networks which are broadcast worldwide: Smile of a Child children's channel; JCTV youth network; The Church Channel; TBN Enlace USA, Spanish language network; Enlace Juvenil, Hispanic youth network; TBN Asia; TBN Europe; TBN Russia; Smile of a Child Russia; Juce Russian language youth network; TBN Africa; TBNE - Italia; Al - Horreya TV and Arabic language network; TBN Nejat TV, Farsi language channel; and TBN - HD,...

Cord - cutting is simply getting rid of your traditional cable television / satellite dish service and relying instead on streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Go for your entertainment needs.