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.
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.
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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of shares in his ownrncompany, an effort to prop uprnthe
cable giant's flagging stock.rnAfter flirting with $ 19 a share inrnMay, Shaw Communicationsrncrept back up to $ 21 over therncourse
of the fall.
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.