cable industry

Cable Is Discovering the Joys of Wi-Fi; Why Not Mobile?

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:11:49 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Kevin Fitchard
For the last few years, an alternate wireless network has been emerging in the U.S.: one not built by the mobile operators but by cable providers. Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast have all launched numerous Wi-Fi hotspots in their service areas. The Multiple Service Operators have latched onto the idea of Wi-Fi as a way of extending their home and business broadband services to customers. Why haven't their mobile counterparts followed suit?

Comcast Raising Cable Rates Twice in 10-Month Period

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:32:45 -0500

Full article: Boston Globe
D.C. Denison
Cable bills in Boston are on the rise again, just 10 months after sharp increases in fees charged by Comcast Corp. provoked both Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Senator John Kerry to request the FCC take action against rising prices.

Comcast Starts to Kiss Analog TV Goodbye

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:34:34 -0500

Full article: Light Reading
Jeff Baumgartner
In its effort to reclaim analog spectrum, Comcast Corp. has gotten down to its most basic video service tier.

Cable TV Networks Feel Pressure of Programming Costs

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:06:47 -0500

Full article: Los Angeles Times
Meg James
Sports rights fees and costs for original shows have driven up cable programming expenses in recent years. Yet cable channels remain the most profitable divisions of many media conglomerates. Wall Street worries the media industry will be unable to sustain its high margins.

Verizon Wireless to Buy Cable Airwaves for $3.6 Billion

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:07:05 -0500

Full article: Los Angeles Times
Joe Flint
A joint venture including the nation's two largest cable companies took the biggest step yet to pull the industry out of its once ambitious plans to build a wireless network and compete with mobile carriers for cellphone customers.

Verizon's Spectrum Deal with Cable Is the End of Broadband Competition

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:00:18 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Stacey Higginbotham
The spectrum deal Verizon signed with Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, in which the nation's largest wireless operator would buy the unused airwaves from the nation's top cable providers, signals the moment that the consumer benefits of the convergence of voice, video and data hit the wall. It's a deal that’s great for Verizon, an acknowledgment of reality for the cable folks and a bummer for AT&T and consumers.

Cable's Cost Per Bit Plummets

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:25:35 -0500

Full article: Light Reading
Mari Silbey
Docsis IP network traffic is up, but cable's cost per bit for delivering it is headed down. Way down.

The Children Are Our Future, and They're Not Paying for TV

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:22:21 -0500

Full article: GigaOM
Ryan Lawler
A weak economy is putting pressure on the pay TV industry, as it struggles to get new users to sign up for cable, IPTV and satellite services. But the short-term issue around the affordability of cable is hiding a bigger trend of young people who are choosing not to pay for TV.

Competition and a Weak Economy Plague Cable TV

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:10:43 -0400

Full article: CNet
Marguerite Reardon
Cable operators all over the country have been steadily and slowly losing TV subscribers quarter after quarter. A year ago, some people wondered if Internet TV services like Netflix and Hulu were attracting so-called cord cutters. Instead is may be that increased competition from satellite and phone companies offering TV service is the main reason that cable operators are losing TV subscribers. But the sluggish economy is also contributing to the malaise.

Smaller Cable Firms Seeking Exemption from Loud TV Law

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:55:22 -0400

Full article: National Journal
Juliana Gruenwald
A group of smaller cable companies are asking the FCC for a one-year exemption from having to comply with a law enacted in December that would lower the volume on all those loud TV ads that irritate so many television viewers.