Sentences with phrase «satellite cable company»

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Although it is known primarily for its set - top video recorder, Tivo Inc. also has a research arm that partners with cable companies and satellite providers to track viewer behavior.

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.

Its direct customers are cable and satellite providers — not fickle consumers — who pay the company to carry its channels.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's giving cable, phone and satellite companies a run for their money.

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.

Bissonette says competition between the two Shaw - controlled content outfits is a non-issue, noting the company's cable business competes with its satellite offering.

The subscriber decline, in particular, should concern cable and satellite TV companies.

The company will likely partner with cable and satellite providers, much as it did with telcos for the iPhone.

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.

Domestically, she leads distributions for the premium networks HBO and Cinemax, whether it be through cable, satellite, and telco companies or in the critical lodging business.

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 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.

Other legal challenges have been filed elsewhere against a budding industry that stands to challenge the dominance of cable or satellite companies that offer their licensed programming to consumers.

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.

The Justice Department already cleared the deal, which will create a company with about 26 million cable and satellite subscribers.

«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.

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.

That makes AT&T the largest pay TV provider in the country, which also puts the company the most at risk from cord cutting, cord shaving and other cleverly - labeled phenomenon that all add up to customers dropping a cable or satellite subscription.

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.

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.

It said that TV stations and broadcasters would be allowed to keep simsub «for the time being,» although cable and satellite companies would no longer be permitted to perform it on specialty channels.

Consumers will have more reasons to watch entertainment from sources other than their cable or satellite company, potentially motivating a greater fraction of them to cancel those monthly subscriptions.

Some smaller cable companies have dropped Viacom networks from their lineup, leading to fears that larger cable and satellite companies will eventually follow their lead.

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.

The possible benefits for CBS are less clear, beyond the company gaining scale, which could help with negotiations with cable and satellite distributors.

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.

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.

Today, just 20 short years later, he oversees the Christian Broadcasting Network which, from its $ 50 - million headquarters in Virginia Beach, incorporates four television stations, six radio stations, a missionary radio station, a recording company, a programming service which makes 24 - hour - a-day programming available to the more than 3,000 cable systems in the U.S.A. and Canada, a news network, a university, and a satellite earth station.

The networks take their broadcast cut (average is about 7 %), with the distributors (cable companies, telcos and satellite companies) getting 40 - 45 %.

It was shown by all (i.e. both) the TV companies (no satellite or cable back then), who devoted the whole morning to building up the atmosphere — live pictures of the players» coaches leaving their hotels.

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).

No cable or satellite company will send out 4K broadcasts because, in the bandwidth space of one 4K channel, providers could send out four HDTV channels.

When you apply for things like cable or satellite TV, mobile phone service, or internet service, the company might review your credit report.

TV Homeshopnets pay either a fixed $ / home or a % of sales or some combination thereof for carriage by the cable / satellite companies.

Canada's broadcast regulator has laid out details for a new industry code that cable and satellite companies will have to follow when they're billing customers.

As an equity investment analyst, he covered environmental services, U.S. telecommunications and cable & satellite TV companies.

Banks, credit unions, insurance companies, utility providers, landlords, cellular, cable, internet, satellite, credit card issuers... they all care and will charge you more or assess deposits if your scores aren't good enough.

The company encountered a number of external and internal issues that adversely affected the process, including current market conditions and economic circumstances, difficult retail and credit environments, the company's recent operating performance and cost structure, uncertainty surrounding the status of the possible redemption of the Series A Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock held by GE, and the early stage of the company's cable and satellite distribution negotiations.

Contacting customer service for a phone, cable, satellite, TV or Internet company can quickly consume hours of your day.

Since December 2013, Harlan has been a member of Fidelity's technology research team covering European telecommunications, satellite, and cable companies.

Steve Alexander presents CSG Systems — Intec Acquisition A Transformational Move — MagicDiligence posted at MagicDiligence — Optimizing Joel Greenblatts Value Stock Strategy, saying, «CSG Systems is a provider of outsourced billing and customer management services for North American cable and satellite companies.

Just like cable companies and digital satellite providers get more HD programming in their limited bandwidth.

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.