151 Cable TV Jobs Go
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MORE THAN 150 call centre staff working for a cable TV company were yesterday told their jobs are to go.   NTL Telewest is to close its Edinburgh South Gyle customer care department. The centre has 299 staff in total.
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 2--Comcast Corp. said yesterday that its rights to retransmit signals of Baltimore's Fox and CW networks have been extended for another month while the cable provider continues negotiating with Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc. on a new deal.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51136)  has announced the addition of Datamonitor's new report: Broadcasting &  Cable TV in France to their offering.
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By JOHN CARTER  Dozens of students will be getting a paycheck this summer, thanks to money a cable television giant is channeling into the community.
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Comcast Corp, the largest U.S. cable  TV operator, posted on Thursday a 2 percent rise in quarterly  profit excluding one-time items but lost more basic video  subscribers than analysts had expected.
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By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER  Comcast plans to hire more than 500 people in New Jersey by the end of the year to meet increased customer demand, the company said Friday.
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By Don Spatz, Reading Eagle, Pa. Dec. 16--The city has reached a 15-year agreement with Comcast Corp. for cable TV and high-speed Internet services that will provide the city with one-time payments totaling $325,000.
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Rankings for the top 15 programs on basic cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Sept. 27-Oct. 3. Each ratings point represents 1,096,000 households. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
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Verizon Communications Inc. said yesterday it will extend a powerful new fiber-optic network capable of delivering cable television to 1 million US homes and businesses by year's end, including more than 100,000 in suburban Boston.
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Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of July 9-15. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
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The Federal Communications Commission said on Tuesday that it would fine 169 Fox television stations $7,000 each, or a total of $1.
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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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NEW YORK - In one corner, the Fox television empire. In another, cable executives who once ran the USA network and E! Entertainment Television...
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Cablevision Systems Corp.,  on Friday said it planned to raise cable rates by 2.8 percent on average across its service territory, but plans to keep its high speed Internet and phone service rates unchanged.
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No more writers on picket lines. No more network TV bosses scrambling for replacement shows.
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By Tom Dochat, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.  Sep. 8--Comcast Corp. plans to add 170 jobs in central Pennsylvania by  year's end as it rolls out its digital voice residential phone service.
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By Staff Reports  The cable TV equipment company ends fiscal '06 with a tough quarter.   Profits fell in fiscal 2006 at Addvantage Technologies Group Inc. as income totaled $4.8 million, down from $5.8 million the previous year despite strong revenue.