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07/17/2006
Autumn Breeze: Summit to Become a Fall Conference in 2010
Today’s CTAM Summit won’t be the last you have to plan your summer vacation around, but the clock’s ticking. Summit will move to the fall in ’10. The move stems from an NCTA exec cmte gathering a few years back that considered killing Summit, CableWorld reports today. Ultimately, the group—Jim Robbins of Cox, Steve Burke […]
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07/14/2006
Portal Particulars: FCC Places RSN Conditions on Merger
Comcast and Time Warner’s $17.6bln purchase of Adelphia was approved on a 4-1 vote Thurs with the expected sports programming conditions. Michael Copps was the nay vote (surprise), while fellow Dem Jonathan Adelstein dissented in part (he wanted network neutrality conditions imposed). "Consumers will see their cable bills climb higher," Copps warned, while complaining about […]
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07/13/2006
U-Verse Universe: AT&T Has Programming Deals With Almost Everyone
AT&T has been quiet on its programming lineup for u-verse in San Antonio, only announcing a deal with Discovery so far (Cfax, 7/12). But new Website uverseusers.com snapped a photo of a programming guide (current as of 6/30) that shows nearly all of the big programmers having carriage. Among those missing from the lineup are […]
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07/06/2006
Politicians Want Conference on the Mound
3 DC-area House members asked the FCC Wed to force Comcast to play ball with MASN in settling a dispute surrounding the airing of Washington Nationals baseball games. Reps Tom Davis (R-VA, Govt Reform Cmte Chmn), James Moran (D-VA) and Albert Wynn (D-MD) proposed a nixing of the MSO’s and Time Warner Cable’s proposed merger […]
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07/05/2006
Place Your Bets: CGTV Top Execs Gone, Merger Talk a Bust
What’s going on at Casino and Gaming TV? An unusual announcement crossed our desk last week from HorseRacing TV and parent Magna, saying that HRTV and CGTV are not merging. Magna said it had learned that the gaming network may be telling certain prospective investors that the 2 nets reached an agreement regarding a merger. […]
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06/21/2006
Telco Wars: Southern Belle Has Strong Arms
BellSouth is telling builders that it may choose not to outfit a housing development for phone service if the builder signs an exclusive deal with a rival for video and high- speed data. "These types of arrangements with alternate communications providers or infrastructure providers may affect BellSouth’s provision of service to the developments," it wrote […]