Time Warner Cable Faces Broadcast Blackout in 14 Markets
LIN Television is looking to extract more coin from Time Warner Cable, telling viewers its local broadcast stations in 14 markets will be pulled from TWC and Bright House Networks if the companies...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable, LIN TV Reach Deal to Avert Broadcast Blackout
As their previous deal expired Friday, Time Warner Cable and LIN Television announced that they reached an agreement on retransmission-consent fees to keep 24 local TV stations on TWC and Bright House...
View ArticleReview: ‘First Comes Love’
The fine line between movingly personal and irritatingly self-indulgent is pretty much obliterated by “First Comes Love,” autobiographical documentarian Nina Davenport’s video memoir of her decision to...
View ArticleCBS Stations, Showtime Go Dark for Time Warner Cable Customers
After weeks of haggling and mud-slinging, CBS and Time Warner Cable remained deadlocked over retransmission fees – resulting in blackouts Friday afternoon of CBS stations in New York, L.A., Dallas and...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable Will Credit Showtime Subs for Blackout, But Nothing for...
Time Warner Cable will extend credits to Showtime subscribers after the operator dropped the net Friday as part of the MSO’s contract battle with premium cabler’s parent CBS, but it will not credit...
View ArticleMTV Streams Full Episodes to Xbox
Viacom’s MTV is bringing full episodes of “Teen Wolf,” “Catfish” and other current series to Xbox 360 consoles — but you’ll need to subscribe to Microsoft’s Xbox Live Gold service to watch them, and...
View Article‘Boardwalk Empire’: Helmer Pays Respect to the Corleones
On the “Boardwalk Empire” team, helmer Tim Van Patten bats leadoff and cleanup, since he’s handed all the opening and final episodes. Exec producer Martin Scorsese threw out the first pitch with the...
View ArticleFox Sports 1 Set to Launch with Major Pay TV Operators, But Not All Have...
Fox announced Thursday that its new national sports network — Fox Sports 1 — is set to debut Saturday with all major cable, satellite and telco TV operators, but while it will be carried by DirecTV,...
View ArticleLiberty Global Stock Rises on Takeover Speculation
LONDON — The stock price of John Malone’s international cable company Liberty Global jumped by 3.22% to $78.59 Thursday as speculation mounted that the company could become a takeover target for U.K....
View ArticleExit of Controversial Contestant Puts CBS’‘Big Brother’ on Top
UPDATE: As expected, the ratings for all broadcast programs were revised downward in the nationals released Friday afternoon by Nielsen. Though “Big Brother” was still the top show in young adults (1.8...
View ArticleCBS, Time Warner Cable Reach Deal to End Blackout
The month-long carriage standoff between CBS and Time Warner Cable has ended as the sides unveiled a wide-ranging content deal that calls for CBS network, Showtime and other channels blacked out since...
View ArticleBlackout Nation: After CBS-Time Warner Cable Feud, Rules About TV Deals...
For 32 days, more than 3 million Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks customers were collateral damage in the fight between TW Cable and CBS over fees and rights to programming. Now that the two...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable Launches Showtime’s Internet Video Service
Here’s one silver lining for Time Warner Cable customers out of its bruising fight with CBS: The MSO, under the deal it eventually reached with the Eye, has launched Showtime Networks’ authentication...
View ArticleCharter Communications in Talks to Buy Bright House Networks
Charter Communications is in talks to acquire cable operator Bright House Networks in an all-stock deal that would add more than 2 million subscribers to Charter’s base. News of the talks was first...
View ArticleCharter Officially Acquires Time Warner Cable, Bright House
Charter Communications has officially closed its $67.1 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, the company announced Wednesday. After nabbing TWC for $55 billion and...
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