Sentences with phrase «on the cable companies»

Rogers and Shaw are now pressing that content advantage, offering up mass titles like Modern Family and American Horror Story which run on the cable companies» channels (Rogers» City TV and FX Canada respectively).

The effect on cable companies is certain: profit is secure and won't have to be shared.

Before imposing a fee system on cable companies, it asked the courts to verify that it had the right to do so and the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it did not.

Not exact matches

Given that even cellular giant Verizon (VZ) is starting to bend on its contract policy, my bet is the cable companies win that one.

The grand plan is that the company will eventually have content available on the full range of media platforms anywhere in the world, from traditional print publications and cable channels to snappy websites with streaming video suitable for hand - held devices, as well as downloadable digital magazines.

In a nutshell, this means that TV - related companies who rely on advertising revenue to support their businesses need to be re-valued by investors, and that even those who depend primarily on affiliate fees from cable distributors — a group that would include ESPN — have likely been over-valued.

That in turn could help the company take on an industry even less popular with consumers than the wireless industry was: cable TV.

Slaight told him cable giant Rogers had been sniffing around a six - year - old multi-platform media company called GlassBox TV, which was doing digital publishing, video - on - demand and specialty TV.

It amounts to a counterintuitive bet: a passive music service delivered by cable firms and operated with financial discipline can win against flashy VC - backed on - demand streaming companies.

In addition to Matheson's work on TV and online, celebrity chef and best - selling author Eddie Huang (Fresh Off the Boat) also hosts a Viceland travel show, called Huang's World, while the rapper Action Bronson has his own culinary travel show on the company's cable network called F*ck, That's Delicious.

That compares with a loss of $ 16 billion, or $ 13.41 per share, a year ago when the company was hurt by heavy write - downs on its cable, publishing and AOL assets.

Now that major cable and Internet companies (usually one in the same) have pressured the FCC to create fast lanes and slow lanes on the Information Superhighway — Google and Verizon requested net neutrality exemption for wireless Internet just last month — small businesses» online presence is in serious jeopardy.

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.

Next up was Ottawa - based You.i, a company focused on helping cable companies deal with «the Netflix problem.»

The company has more than $ 2 billion in available liquidity that it can spend on its wired and wireless networks under its Videotron division, in expanded cable offerings, and share buybacks, he said.

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.

Hall said cable and satellite companies are hindered somewhat in making the changes on their own.

The 78 - year - old founder of the Calgary - based cable company doubled down on his company this year.

It's been four months since Rogers and Shaw, Canada's two biggest cable companies, officially launched Shomi, a Netflix - like streaming service that delivers on - demand TV shows and movies.

Apple has issued a recall on some charge cables bundled with the company's MacBook.

The FCC appears determined to press on, however, and given chairman Wheeler's comments on the matter so far, it seems unlikely that he is going to be put off by a little grumbling from the cable and satellite companies.

Since HBO first went on the air in 1972, it has been tied down by cable companies who require viewers to pay for expensive packages even if they just wanted the HBO channel.

It's true that the cable and satellite companies have been trying to adapt — including launching apps for various platforms — but it's probably fair to say the industry has been pushed rather than leapt on its own accord.

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.

That creates a scenario where you could pay a monthly fee for Verizon's mobile internet; pay another fee for its FiOS home internet and / or cable service; pay another fee for its live - TV service; watch a bunch of ad - supported videos on AOL or Yahoo or Oath (or, in a different life, go90); and implicitly pay the company through its beefed - up, deregulated ad network.

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.

And while many startups and tech companies that depend on open access to the Internet have cheered those rules, which reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as public utilities under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, cable and telecommunications industry representatives have already filed several lawsuits that challenge the regulations.

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.

In case you missed it, Wheeler set the Internet on fire earlier this month when it emerged that he had a plan to institute a right for Internet providers — cable and phone companies — to create a «fast lane» for online services and websites.

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.

Comcast's NBCUniversal is shutting down its Esquire Network cable channel, one month after it was dropped by DirecTV, and will re-launch it this spring as a digital - only brand, the company said on Wednesday.

LONDON, April 25 - U.S. cable company Comcast Corp submitted a 22 billion pound offer for pay - TV group Sky on Wednesday, challenging an already agreed but lower takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's Fox.

A company called Hangman Products makes a Furniture Anti-Tip Kit, which includes an aircraft - grade steel cable that connects your furniture to a bracket installed into a stud on the wall.

On Thursday morning, he told CNBC's Kayla Tausche that «this is a decision that the Supreme Court rendered which said that Aereo was «like» a cable company... we're an investor in it — absolutely.»

The cable company doesn't own its own wireless airwave licenses, so the new service relies on a 2011 deal Comcast struck with Verizon to lease cellular airwaves.

For the better part of the last decade or so, cable and TV companies have watched the upheaval going on in the movie and music industries — not to mention the newspaper business — and felt pretty sanguine about their prospects.

Finally, there is the question whether the price increases that cable companies will end up paying will really amount to «hundreds of millions of dollars,» as the government alleges, and how much of that will be passed on to consumers.

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.

A major question is how plausible its economists» estimates are on key parts of its theory: how many of company A's customers would drop their cable subscription without Turner's networks, how many would switch to DirectTV (rather than just cutting the cord), and how profitable would the new customers be.

The construction of the new «MAREA» cable will begin in August and it is expected to be completed in October 2017, the companies said in a statement on Thursday.

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.

All the FCC wants now is for TV content to get to apps on major streaming devices in the first place — a process many cable companies have already started as more and more customers cut the cord.

«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.

British mobile operator Vodafone said on Wednesday it had made an offer to buy Germany's biggest cable company Kabel Deutschland.

Comcast doesn't have its own wireless network so the service will run on a combination of leased airwaves from Verizon and the cable company's 16 million Wi - Fi hotspots.

Disney CEO Bob Iger suggested in an interview with Bloomberg on Monday that the analyst is wrong about the company, and that the cable side of the business is still in good shape.

Increased costs: As TV networks like CBS and cable companies like Comcast launch their own streaming services, they are becoming less reliant on Netflix, so the company is focusing on creating its own shows.

The media and cable giant reported quarterly earnings on Wednesday that beat analyst expectations, and revenue that topped estimates, as the company grew its customer base in high - speed internet and business services, offsetting lost customers in video services.

Whether simplifying OTT video delivery via innovative cloud and software - as - a-service (SaaS) technologies, or powering the delivery of gigabit internet cable services, Harmonic is changing the way media companies and service providers monetize live and VOD content on every screen.

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.