Networks typically
require cable companies to bundle their weaker channels alongside their stronger ones.
Those payments take place through a compulsory licensing system, which
require the cable companies to pay around 1 percent of their revenue to the Copyright Office.
The study doesn't cover every cable viewer in America: While the Federal Communications Commission requires networks to file reports on political ad buys, it doesn't
require cable companies to do the same.
An even more significant step would be for the Congress to
require all cable companies to make the lock - out feature available on all channel switching devices it normally provides to its subscribers.
Congress should
require all cable companies to make the lockout feature available on all channel - switching devices they normally provide to their subscribers.
Not exact matches
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.
Since its
cable network also provides Internet access, the
company benefits from the adoption of streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, because they
require a lot of bandwidth.
For instance, the
company could do away with a
cable - based charging port, though Jason Snell, editor of Apple news site and podcast Six Colors, and former MacWorld editor, said such a change would make the devices more difficult to repair since most basic repairs
require connecting the iPhone to an external computer.
Although there are already over 300 undersea
cables worldwide that are owned by various
companies, they can't provide the networking power that Google
requires — especially to grow its cloud business overseas, Google's principal engineer of networking architecture Vijay Vusirikala explained.
Cable companies like Comcast, for example, insist that customers personally deliver their
cable boxes before closing an account, and often
require them to wait for hours at service centers in order to do so.
On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed a new technology mandate that would
require satellite and
cable TV providers to disaggregate or separate their services so that a few
companies could repackage them as their own without negotiating for content rights like everybody else in the market does today.
On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing
cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom
companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue;
requiring «foreign
companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom
companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.
In addition,
cable companies should be
required to place all R - and X - rated films on a channel separate from other movies.
You could also take some of the products of these programs out of the public domain (if they are in the public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to
cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are
required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those
companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get done).
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Secondly, regular
cable television will
require that a work technician from the
company come to your home to do an installation.
For example,
cable TV
companies require large amounts of capital to acquire, expand or upgrade their systems.
Eleven
cable and satellite
companies signed a voluntary deal last year to reduce power consumption of the boxes from 10 % to 45 % by 2017, but the deal doesn't
require the devices to go down to a trickle when turned off and the agreement has no penalties for noncompliance.
The Court said, «No,» giving
cable companies a benefit unlike the telephone
companies, which are
required to allow other telephone carriers access to their telephone lines.
Those rules give broadcasters the power to force a
cable company to carry their signal, or else
require it to obtain «retransmission consent.»
Considering you might be upgrading from an old Fitbit device, it's disappointing that each of the
company's trackers
requires its own charging
cable.
Things really took a turn when
companies began launching soundbars, which cost less to make and didn't
require users to run
cables all over their homes.
My
cable company just went digital this week and is
requiring all my TVs have these massive converter boxes.
Similarly frustrating, you'll find a USB Type - A to Lightning
cable in there, too, even though that
requires a separate adapter to work with any of the
company's recent MacBook or MacBook Pro models.