Digital Subscribers Help Cablevision Cut Loss
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Cablevision Systems said that its loss in the third quarter was 41 percent smaller than in the period last year as demand for its digital television, high-speed Internet and phone services offset higher operating costs.
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Cable provider's costly services, combined with its pricey stock, should give pause.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Cable companies are planning to charge more for set-top boxes to help pay for new, more expensive versions mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Here's the pitch from the cable TV industry: One way or another, all subscribers will still be able to tune in their favorite shows when broadcasters shift to digital-only transmission in 2009.
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A cable giant looks to the future of digital video.
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NEW YORK -- TV's big switch from analog to digital broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them: Do they need a new converter box, a new TV, a better antenna? But it's pretty clear which business interests stand...
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If you're a local basketball fan who wants to avoid the drive to Hershey tonight - and you have Comcast digital cable - you're in luck.
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NBC Universal's quirky Trio cable network lost about half of its subscribers over the weekend as DirecTV pulled the plug, the companies said on Monday.
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DirecTV Group, the largest satellite television programmer, has said that its loss widened considerably in the third quarter because of a one-time charge to write down the value of two satellites.
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TiVo Inc., maker of digital television recorders, on Monday posted a wider quarterly net loss, as it boosted spending to achieve a sharp increase in new subscribers to its fee-based TV service.
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When Gardner resident James Bargnesi woke up yesterday, NBC, Fox, and CBS channels from across the country had disappeared from his satellite dish, disrupting his normal routine. At Satellite Video, a satellite television installation company in White River Junction, Vt., calls began to trickle in from customers upset that they had lost the Manchester, N.H., ABC affiliate that provided their ...
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Cablevision Systems Corp. said on  Thursday it will have the capability to carry more than 500  channels of high definition television programming by year-end  as competition mounts from satellite TV and telephone  operators.
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NBC Universal's quirky Trio cable  network lost about half of its subscribers over the weekend as  DirecTV pulled the plug, the companies said on Monday.
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It has been 11 years since Congress voted to break the cable television industry's stranglehold on set-top boxes &#151; the devices that consumers need to receive digital programming and change channels.
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Cable operator Cablevision Systems  Corp.  on Tuesday posted a quarterly loss, though  subscribers continued to grow across its television, telephone  and high-speed Internet service.
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Comcast Corp , the largest  U.S. cable TV operator, on Thursday reported a small rise in  profit as it lost basic video subscribers during the third  quarter due to stronger competition from rival video services  through satellite and telephone operators.
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Digital, high-definition television can be a complex enough business in its own right. But the shift from analog to digital now also means a shift from fat to flat. -The Washington Post