Sentences with phrase «of cable giant»

In his statement, Tu, a lawyer with the Los Angeles law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, said that Dauman and Abrams had also been removed as directors of National Amusements Inc., the holding company that owns the controlling shares of cable giant Viacom and CBS.

She spoke just before appearing at a rally near City Hall calling for continued net neutrality opposing the proposed merger of cable giants Comcast and Time Warner.

Not exact matches

The vertically integrated media / cable / telco giants are watching — with clenched corporate jaws — as previously bulletproof annuities, like landline and cable subscriptions, have begun to show signs of vulnerability.

The cable giant may be doing better than the rest of its competitors when it comes to hanging on to TV subscribers, and its Internet access business also provides plenty of cash flow from cord - cutters and streaming fans.

Ever since it was first floated a year ago, the idea of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable — two giant Internet and cable TV providers — combining in an $ 78 billion merger sparked concern in a number of areas.

While the cable giant's mammoth $ 5 billion purchase of exclusive rights to NHL programming last year got all the headlines, Thursday's deal with World Wrestling Entertainment is equally interesting, especially to fans of the squared circle.

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

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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.

Overall, the cable and entertainment giant increased revenue in 2015 by over 8 %, and generated free cash flow of almost $ 9 billion.

The cable giant added 53,000 subscribers in the last quarter — its best performance in almost a decade — and some analysts saying reports of the death of cable «have been greatly exaggerated.»

Liberty Global and Vodafone ended talks about an exchange of assets — the companies» operations overlap the most in the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands — denying the cable and mobile - phone giants a chance to consolidate in their key markets.

The cable channel giant just unveiled the teaser poster for the highly - anticipated seventh season of its overwhelmingly popular show, Game of Thrones.

The program works by exploiting «clouds,» which are massive data centers across continents that are connected by thousands of miles of fiber - optic cable that are used by the Silicon Valley giants to function with minimal data loss and system slowdowns.

LONDON, Feb 27 - U.S. cable giant Comcast Corp has offered $ 31 billion for Sky Plc, threatening a plan hatched by Rupert Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox Inc and Walt Disney Co to seize control of Europe's biggest pay - TV group.

Japanese technology giant NEC Corporation and Alcatel Submarine Networks are helping Google with the latest cable laying project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2019, Vusirikala said.

It's made up of what appears to be a regular onesie, albeit with several sensors attached and a giant collection of cables that snakes out of the child's back to plug into a small form factor computer.

Cable sports giant ESPN's struggles in recent years have been well - documented, with the Walt Disney - owned network shedding more than 12 million subscribers in the past six years as the number of cord - cutters has ticked upwards and cable providers have started offering slimmer bundles that don't always include ESPN.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday moved to approve Charter Communications» $ 65.5 billion acquisitions of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, enabling the creation of a new cable giant as the industry focuses more on broadband as traditional TV declines.

When people think of San Francisco, they might think of the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Chinatown, the 49ers or Giants.

Since November, YES, the channel that airs New York Yankees games, has been blacked out on Comcast Corp. as the cable giant and the network's parent, 21st Century Fox, battle over terms of payment.

Rival suitors Bob Iger and Rupert Murdoch, of Disney and Fox, will struggle to match the U.S. cable giant's synergies.

The telecom and cable giants appear smaller in the rear - view mirror of Disney's $ 52 bln Fox deal.

The two brands which didn't fall into either of these categories are cable provider Spectrum (the new name from the Time Warner Cable and Charter merger) and electronics giant Samsung.

Disney's nosedive triggered broader investor worries about consumers opting for skinny bundles or dropping cable TV completely as shares of other traditional media giants also plummeted.

The most valuable parts of the entertainment giants» empires are still their cable - TV businesses in America.

Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Paterson, and Ed Rendell added their names to the list of lawmakers supporting the deal, which would create a new $ 30 billion joint venture by merging the Philadelphia cable giant's content division with NBC Universal's (NBCU) stable of television networks, film studios and theme parks.

Teachout, the upstart Democratic candidate appealing to the more liberal wing of the party, was in Syracuse Thursday in the midst of a whistlestop campaign tour and accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of being subservient to the two cable giants because they've contributed heavily to his campaign.

A GIANT inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable - based space elevator, its proponents claim.

The handful of climate - related cables — among the hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the whistle - blower organization Wikileaks — show the United States put climate change at the center of its foreign policy relationship with the oil - producing giant

The $ 145 - million project, called NEPTUNE Canada (North - East Pacific Time - Series Undersea Networked Experiments), has laid 800 kilometers of cable to transmit power and data, and established five «nodes» that act like giant, 13 - tonne plug - in points for scientific instrumentation, lying up to 2.6 kilometers beneath the waves.

Under the streets around the old power station, its giant copper cables have been joined by a new web of fibre - optics.

If you don't feel like walking, you can ride to the bottom and back again on the thrilling and steep Scenic Railway, or glide between the cliff tops and gaze at the rainforest canopy through the glass floors of the Scenic Skyway or giant aerial cable cars of the Scenic Cableway.

These bushwalks descend into the valley and can conveniently return to the top of the valley by the scenic railway or cable car at Scenic World Try the Giant Staircase at the Three Sisters near Echo Point, walk along the valley floor or alongside the Scenic Railway lies Furber Steps, a shorter walk but from Queen Victoria lookout you'll see Katoomba Falls, the Jamison Valley and the Three Sisters all in one magnificent panorama.

The giant colored spools on three monumental industrial shelving units might at first glance seem to have been inspired by the coiled Con Edison cables that often dot the city, but the installation, which will occupy the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast corner of Central Park, contains 212 wooden spools wound with brightly colored ropes.

The handful of climate - related cables — among the hundreds of thousands of secret and unclassified messages released by the whistle - blower organization Wikileaks — show the United States put climate change at the center of its foreign policy relationship with the oil - producing giant in the months after last year's blowout U.N. climate summit in Denmark.

Shearman & Sterling, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a raft of top firms to have advised on the $ 23.3 bn (# 14.9 bn) purchase of Virgin Media by US cable giant Liberty Global.

Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Shearman & Sterling and Latham & Watkins are among a raft of firms to have won roles on Vodafone's $ 18.4 bn (# 16.1 bn) purchase of the majority of US cable giant Liberty Global's European assets.

NetLink, a spin - off of Singapore telecoms giant Singtel, builds and operates the fibre optic cable infrastructure for the country's next generation broadband network.

This fiber, in few cases, remains dark or use of the dark cable is highly restricted because few settlements limited the ability of local government to compete with giant cable companies.

The legal dispute is important because Aereo now represents the greatest threat to the TV industry's «bundle» model, which involves force - feeding giant packages of channels to cable and satellite viewers at ever higher prices.

Oh, and it's probably worth mentioning that cable and telecom giants are free to donate to reelection members of Congress.

The research arm of the tech giant is looking for the most efficient and, at the same time, safest way to charge mobile devices without involving strangling cables and hugging walls.

If you'd rather not make giant holes in your wall either way, then the easiest method is to get some cord - hiding material that you simply screw to the wall and route all of the cables through that.

The former has already begun offering August locks as part of Xfinity Home — the cable giant's attempt to elbow in connected home offerings from the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google.

In a deal that can power the talking points of «net neutrality» detractors and advocates alike, video streamer Netflix announced «a mutually beneficial interconnection agreement» with cable giant Comcast.

Though Apple isn't the first company to do so, loyal fans of the Cupertino giant would surely be glad to know that they won't need to have physical wires or cables all the time to rejuvenate their iPhone's battery.

But you'll have to be a customer of either the telecom giant's DirecTV satellite service or U-Verse cable and home Internet business to sign up.

In terms of the overall design, the search giant has opted for a circular bud along with a textured cable connecting both.