Media Decoder: Viacom Sues Cablevision Over iPad App
3:57 p.m. | Updated While it tries to resolve a dispute with Time Warner Cable over the iPad, the cable channel owner Viacom is suing another cable operator, Cablevision, over the same issue. Viacom...
View ArticleCable TV Holding Web Rivals at Bay, Earnings Show
But for the most part, the cords remain intact, the latest crop of earnings reports indicate. Considering the fragile economy, cable and satellite subscriptions seem to be faring better than the...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: With Verizon’s $3.6 Billion Spectrum Deal, Cable and...
2:15 p.m. | Updated Verizon Wireless said Friday that it had agreed to acquire wireless spectrum from three cable companies — Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks — at a cost of $3.6...
View ArticleCable Channels Like Current and Ovation Feeling Heat
The outlets in the second group, the independent channels, are feeling threatened these days. Some of the distributors they depend on — Time Warner Cable, DirecTV, Verizon FiOS — are talking about...
View ArticleHulu Faces a Nebulous Future as It Seeks a New Owner
But the valedictory lap did not last long. Even as the number of views were adding up, so were concerns within the company about the site’s future. That’s because Hulu, the Web streaming service that...
View ArticleA Wait for CBS and Time Warner Cable to Make Up
As a result, CBS’s stations, and cable networks owned by CBS, remained blacked out in many areas, including large parts of New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. The continuing impasse resulted in two...
View ArticleCBS Trumpets Deal With FiOS TV in Jab at Time Warner Cable
Leslie Moonves, the CBS president, underscored the contrast in the negotiations in a memo he sent to CBS employees noting that the deal with FiOS was “reached swiftly and amicably in just a few days.”...
View ArticleCBS Returns, Triumphant, to Cable Box
The agreement between the two sides restored the CBS network and its related channels, including Showtime, to millions of cable subscribers largely in three major cities: New York, Los Angeles and...
View ArticleBold Play by CBS Fortifies Broadcasters
But in one area, CBS and Mr. Moonves have led to a shake-up in the broadcast world that could be labeled revolutionary: the issue of compensation for retransmission rights. Before almost anyone else in...
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