Digital TV Newswire
13 Senators Criticize NFL for Favoring League's Cable Network
A group of United States senators sent N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell a letter Tuesday expressing continued concern over what they consider the exclusionary nature of showing select games on the NFL Network.
DISH Network 3rd-quarter profit slides 54%
Dish Network Corp., the nation's second-largest satellite TV provider, on Monday reported a 54 percent drop in third-quarter net income as it spent more on promotions to keep customers from canceling and wrote down the value of its investments.
Circuit City files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Circuit City Stores Inc. filed for bankruptcy amid rising competition from Best Buy Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and online electronics retailers.
ATT to try limiting subscribers' data use
AT&T Inc. customers who obsessively play World of Warcraft while downloading dozens of movies: Your days of online impunity may be numbered.
Netflix to stream some titles in high-def
Netflix will soon make a limited number of its high-definition titles available for video-streaming through both the Roku set-top box and Microsoft's Xbox 360 videogame console.
Goodell Blames Cable Operators for NFL Network Impasse
N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell reiterated the league’s position that it was trying to broadcast games to a national audience, and said that the cable television operators Comcast and Time Warner were obstructing it from doing so by refusing to carry the channel on the basic tier.
FCC Opens Investigation Into Cable-TV Pricing
Federal regulators are investigating why some cable-television subscribers are paying the same amount of money even as they are losing channels. The Federal Communications Commission recently sent letters of inquiry to 11 cable companies and Verizon Communications Inc. asking about pricing and changes they have made to their tiers of service, including details about channels that have been moved to digital service.
Time Warner Cable 3Q profit rises 21 percent
Time Warner Cable Inc., the nation's second largest cable operator, said Wednesday that its third-quarter profit rose 21 percent, boosted by strong growth in phone and Internet subscribers as well as higher cable TV prices.
LIN TV Q3 net revenue up 5%, retrans fee revenue up 91%
LIN TV Corp. (NYSE: TVL) today reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2008. Net revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2008 increased 5% to $98.8 million, compared to $93.7 million for the same period in 2007, reflecting growth in the Company’s political and digital revenues.
FCC concerned at trend of pay-TV rate hikes
The Federal Communications Commission expressed concern as several cable companies discussed plans to raise their rates for next year, including Cablevision Systems Corp., which on Wednesday announced an average hike for cable TV service of 3.5 percent.
Netflix Watch Instantly coming to TiVo
The TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD join the ranks of the Xbox 360, Roku and various Blu-ray players, with Netflix Watch Instantly streaming movies coming to several thousand households today in beta testing, followed by a wide release scheduled for "early December."
ATT U-Verse to debut in Madison October 27th
Madison will join the U-verse universe Monday. AT&T's U-verse TV offering is now available here, with digital programming that travels over your phone line.
LIN TV testing technology that bridges TV with personalized web content
LIN TV is about to launch an interactive TV test with Backchannelmedia that it hopes will change the way people watch television—and surf the Web. LIN will begin the test on its WTNH/WCTX Hartford-New Haven duopoly in the coming weeks, and seeks to roll it out across its 29-station group if the trial flies.
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