Reaction was mixed Mon to the news that AMC Nets is spending $1bln on acquire almost all of Chellomedia, the intl content division of Liberty Global. AMCX closed down less than 1%, while analysts tried to figure out the ramifications. Check out what BTIG, Bernstein Research and Macquarie Securties’ analysts had to say about the deal.

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Time Warner Cable is upping its speed game with Ultimate 100 Internet tier (100 Mbps), its fastest residential Internet speed to date. Here’s where it will be available.
 
Cable One subs won’t be shut out of hoops action on TNT this week after the two buried the hatchet on Friday.

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In a conversation I had with him many years ago, John Malone, then CEO of Telecommunications Inc (TCI)—the largest cable company at the time—asked if I thought we could get “Washington” to regulate cable as a “public utility.”

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