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The NFL and CBS have made an agreement to extend their American Football Conference broadcast deal for two years, through the 2013-14 season. The deal gives CBS broadcast rights to Super Bowl XLVII in the first year of the agreement. The NFL also announced a new deal with Comcast Corp. earlier today...
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Comcast Corp., the biggest U.S. cable company, and the National Football League ended a dispute over carriage of the NFL Network, meaning the channel will be carried on the operator's system. The deal settles all legal disputes over the matter and moves the NFL Network from Comcast's sports entertainment...
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DirecTV and Comcast Corp. will pay a total of $3.21 million for violating Do Not Call provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule. DirecTV and Comcast will pay $2.31 million and $900,000, respectively, to settle separate Federal Trade Commission charges claiming they called consumers who told the companies...
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Dish Network and NFL Network have reached a settlement in their carriage dispute. The settlement calls for a new multiyear carriage agreement. NFL Network will be carried in Dish Network’s Classic Silver 200 programming package. “We are very pleased that our NFL Network will continue to be distributed...
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Even with the economy in recession, even with television distribution models in upheaval, even with the advertising business suffering, business was surprisingly good at the Cable Show ’09. Beating predictions of a serious attendance drop, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s annual...
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Executives at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show ’09 last week were relatively upbeat about their prospects. “We’re an industry that is still growing customers,” said Pat Esser, CEO of Cox Communications. Consumers see their broadband connection and their cable TV connection...
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Steve Burke, chief operating officer of Comcast, said the top cable operator plans a national test of system to authenticate that consumers are cable subscribers before allowing them to view cable programming online or on mobile devices. Authentication emerged at the National Cable & Telecommunications...
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Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, says that Web video can be a friend of the cable industry. Taking part in the opening session at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s Cable Show in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, Mr. Roberts said that consumer demand for...
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Comcast Entertainment Group reached a new deal with comedienne Chelsea Handler that will keep her as host and executive producer of E! Entertainment’s late night “Chelsea Lately” show through 2012. The new agreement also calls for Ms. Handler to develop and produce shows for Comcast’s networks through...
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Comcast has the most cable MSO subscribers in the U.S.' top 40 markets, according to SNL Kagan’s “Cable MSO Ownership: A Geographic Analysis” report. Comcast’s MSO has more than 20 million subscribers, representing 49.7% of the market share in the top 40 markets. Time Warner and Cablevision trail...
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Comcast On Demand will offer “Twilight” at 12:01 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, the same day the DVD lands in stores, the cable company announced today. "Attention Twilighters: at 12:01 a.m. you can watch Twilight in HD the moment it's available and with no trip to the video store," Derek...
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The ability of multichannel providers to launch companion online services for viewing cable programming will divide them into the haves and the have-nots over the next decade, according to a report from the Diffusion Group scheduled to be released today. The research firm concluded that cable operators...
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Evidently, the revolution hasn’t started yet. My army of cord-cutters has yet to march up and stand by my side. According to industry analyst Craig Moffett, they’re actually going the other way, back to the multichannel mothership. In a recent report, the Bernstein Research analyst said cable, telco...
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For the second time in two days, Congress is hearing calls for a major revamping of the laws governing compensation of TV stations and programmers by satellite-television providers and cable companies. The discussion comes as Congress starts considering whether to extend the satellite home viewer act...
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Comcast, the largest U.S. cable television company, said today that video subscribers declined slightly from a year ago, hinting that satellite companies such as DirecTV and fiber-optic services may be continuing to pull customers from cable providers. Comcast said its overall revenue rose on a jump...