Sentences with phrase «traditional cable companies»

That's how local municipal broadband companies are able to provide gigabit service for significantly less than traditional cable companies: Since they don't have to worry about a pay TV infrastructure or shareholders, the initial cost to build the network can be easily paid off over years once subscribers start signing up.

The term was coined by traditional cable companies.

Not exact matches

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.

The deal highlights how traditional media companies are trying to engage younger viewers, who are cutting cable cords and prefer shorter programming.

Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

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.

These deals are expected to generate about 25 hours of new daily programming, and mark the company's first real challenge to traditional cable.

Vice is seen by many as a hedge for the traditional media companies that have invested in it, as they try to bridge the gap between the decline of their existing cable and other assets and the rise of the mobile, millennial, cord - cutting consumer.

So leagues and franchises are exploring things like the Yahoo deal, and at the same time, companies like Google (GOOG) and Yahoo are looking at ways to market themselves as an alternative to cable networks and traditional broadcast platforms.

Now, Vice is on the verge of getting its own cable channel, which would give the company a traditional outlet for its slate of non-news programming.

Companies like Disney and Fox are also poised to make more money from new streaming services, too, thereby supplementing revenue from their traditional cable businesses.

Condominium dwellers in major urban centres are indeed the lucky ones in at least this respect, with newer fibre broadband providers emerging as alternatives to traditional phone and cable companies.

For Dish, today's comments reveal merely a change in executive linguistics; the company, in its advertising, has been directly targeting traditional cable for some time, evidenced by its national campaign of TV ads starring tough - guy character actor Danny Trejo.

Nonetheless, the Burbank, Calif. - based company revised down its income guidance on its cable networks unit, signaling that it isn't immune from what ails the traditional - TV industry.

When we bought the stock in 2015 we believed that the company's popular nonfiction video content was ideally positioned to leverage the global distribution capabilities of streaming technology and would profit even as streaming video conquered the traditional cable TV bundle.

The company also looked like it could replace traditional cable, until studios wised up to the fact that Netflix cannibalized consumers that the studios had in their back pockets.

Most buy some combination of cable television, wireless - communications, and communications - equipment firms as well as traditional phone companies.

It doesn't hurt that vue does away with the traditional lease box cable companies most always shakle you to.

Cable companies are seeing dwindling revenue streams from their cable packages and are going to be looking for ways to bolster their shareholder's profits despite the inevitable death of traditional cable programming schemes.

The company has already benefited by bringing sports programming to over-the-top viewers who no longer subscribe to traditional television, like cable or satellite TV.

Priced at $ 14.99 per month, HBO Now will presumably offer the company's entire catalog over the Internet sans a traditional cable package.