F.C.C. Set to End Sole Cable Deals for Apartments
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Hoping to reduce spiraling cable TV costs, the F.C.C. plans to strike down contracts giving cable companies exclusive rights to service individual apartment buildings.
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CNNfn, the financial news cable  network owned by Time Warner Inc., on Thursday said it will  cease operating by mid-December after fighting a losing battle  against far larger rival CNBC.
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Time Warner Cable and Cablevision reached a last-minute pact to keep two regional sports networks on the air, avoiding a shutdown like the one that froze out millions of New York sports fans earlier this year.
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First-round playoff games will be shown only on cable starting next season as part of baseball&#039;s new seven-year television deal with Fox and TBS, a total package worth almost &#36;3 billion.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to impose a limit on the size cable operators can reach on a nationwide basis.
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By Michael Martz, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 16--A City Council committee voted unanimously last night to let the state's largest telephone company bring cable TV competition to most homes in Richmond.
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U.S. regulators are considering new rules, favored by phone companies, designed to give apartment and condo dwellers greater choice of pay television services by banning exclusive deals between building owners and cable TV providers.
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The U.S. Federal Communications  Commission on Thursday ordered Time Warner Cable to immediately  reinstate the NFL Network to the cable systems it acquired from  Adelphia Communications Corp., just days before preseason games  kick off.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators plan to throw out exclusive cable television service contracts with apartment buildings and open up competition to phone companies, according to a published report.
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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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United Rentals said it would accept last weekâs court ruling and stop pursuing a merger agreement with Cerberus Capital, seeking a $100 million termination fee instead.
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Tired of steadily increasing sports programming charges, cable has booted the NFL Network.
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Verizon Wireless has sued the F.C.C., seeking to overturn auction rules requiring the buyers of some airwaves to make their networks compatible with any device.
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Time Warner Cable announced in Buffalo, N.Y., that the NFL Network will no longer be available for 1.3 million subscribers in the area starting Friday.
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CNNfn, the financial news cable network owned by Time Warner Inc., on Thursday said it will cease business operations by mid-December due to the growing competitive challenges.
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By Jeffrey Kelley, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 8--Cavalier Telephone has cut a few legal corners that cable  companies must take to sell its television service, city officials say.
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By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Mar. 7--A new federal rule is meant to put competition into cable TV, but don't look for a new system in your neighborhood anytime soon.