No Happy New Year for a Cable Channel Cut by DirecTV
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Trio, the fringe channel that won acclaim for resurrecting television's flops and losers for a new audience, is fighting for it's future.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Let's apply a year of it to CNET Networks.
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A U.S. court ordered satellite  television operator DirecTV Group Inc.  to drop  advertisements that claimed its service was superior to Time  Warner Inc.'s  cable unit on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Those who toil in  network television have much to be thankful for this holiday  season.
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Cablevision&#39;s MSG Network and Fox Sports NY will lose big ad bucks and be forced to cut the prices they charge cable and satellite companies now that the Mets have walked away to start their own channel, media insiders said yesterday.
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NEW YORK  - Nielsen Media Research has estimated that more than 13 million U.S. households are ill-prepared for the digital TV conversion next year.
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DirecTV Group Inc. (DTV.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday posted a large quarterly loss as marketing and subscriber retention costs rose sharply, offsetting a 49 percent rise in new subscribers.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators say a proposal to allow cable TV subscribers to pay only for channels they want wouldn&#39;t reduce their cable bills.
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For years, consumers who wanted to cut the cord with their cable company found that getting television and high-speed Internet service often meant the inconvenience of finding two new providers.
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ONE Christmas ritual should be a lot cheaper this year for anybody with broadband. Calling friends and relatives just about anywhere in the world now costs nothing, or just over 1p a minute (0.02 to be exact
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DirecTV Group, the largest satellite television programmer, said its loss widened considerably in the third quarter because of a one-time charge to pay for new satellites.
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Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino said RCN's 2007 cable rates are too high. The cost of the "full basic" cable package, which includes 60 channels, is rising 8 percent, from $49.95 to $53.95 when sold alone, according to the mayor's office. In a statement, Menino said, "We are concerned with the increases in both bundled and RCN's standard ...
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The NFL Network yesterday spurned as a âgimmickâ Time Warner Cableâs proposal to offer the league-owned channelâs eight regular-season games on pay-per-view. Time Warner said the league could have set the price and collected the revenue from the service. Robert D. Marcus, a senior executive vice president of Time Warner Cable, wrote to the network saying that the proposal would guarantee that âno interested fan is unable to watch these games on our systems.â The network and Time Warner have been unable to reach an agreement for full-time coverage of the channel on digital basic. In a letter to Time Warner, Steve Bornstein, the president of the network, wrote, âUnfortunately, it seems that TWCâs content acquisition department cannot grasp that the NFL Network is more than eight games.â.
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DirecTV Group Inc., the largest U.S.  satellite television operator, on Tuesday posted weak quarterly  subscriber growth in the face of competition from cable  companies, but profit rose due to a gain from an accounting  change.
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The picture is grainy and the technology won't last, but TV programming is here to stay.
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Cable provider's costly services, combined with its pricey stock, should give pause.
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Not many did. The FCC, ABC, CBS and NBC all seem to agree democracy works best when no one is watching. One hour a night -- and not a moment on opening night.