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The Federal Communications Commission may consider a long-dormant proposal that would cap the number of customers a single cable television company may serve, agency officials said Thursday.
The country's top communications regulator suffered a major defeat Tuesday night when fellow members of the Federal Communications Commission scuttled his effort to expand government control over cable programming.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is still urging NFL fans to pull the plug on cable, especially those who want to see next week's NFC showdown of 10-1 teams on NFL Network.
A long-simmering dispute between the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and the cable television industry has reached a boiling point, with a potential showdown shaping up for the agency's next meeting.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Nov. 12-18. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
Couch potato alert: If you get telephone service through your cable TV provider, you don't have to get up while watching TV to see who's calling.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Nov. 5-11. Day and start time (Eastern) are in parentheses.
A report by the Federal Communications Commission will show that cable TV companies have met a subscriber saturation point that may lead to the agency exerting greater regulatory authority over the industry.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 4. Day and start time (Eastern) are in parentheses.
Federal regulators on Wednesday approved a rule that would ban exclusive agreements that cable television operators have with apartment buildings, opening up competition for other video providers that could eventually lead to lower prices.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 22-28. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
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.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 15-21. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
She was fined and got a suspended jail sentence, but Mona Shaw says she has no regrets about using a hammer to vent her frustration at a cable company.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 8-14. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Oct. 1-7. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
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.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of May 28-June 3. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of April 9-15. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
Local governments across the country went to court Tuesday to challenge federal rules intended to spur competition in the cable television industry.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Feb. 26-March 4. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
The nation's chief telecommunications regulator stands accused of misrepresenting the facts while pushing through rules that will make it easier for big phone companies to get into cable television.
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of Dec. 18-24. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses.
A sharply divided Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 along partisan lines Wednesday to impose new measures meant to ensure that local governments do not block new competitors from entering the cable television market.
Cable television rates keep going up while prices for other communications services are going down, says the nation's chief communications regulator, and he blames local governments for blocking competition.
What is a broadband experience provider, and how does this business model differ from a traditional broadband service provider (BSP)? During the course of 2008, as the customer experience era unfolds, we'll be describing the various attributes -- relative to the evolving service …
In less than 14 months, any traditional television set still connected to its antenna will receive nothing but static, as the broadcasting industry cuts over completely to its new digital frequencies.
What happens when a large and powerful US industry decides that it doesn't like a law? Simple: it works to change that law.
Comcast just adjusted its business outlook for 2007. The company is now shooting for 11 percent sales growth rather than "at least 12 percent," and in a case of swift poetic justice, the stock price dropped 12.3 percent yesterday.
Reduced forecasts by the top cable provider may be a sign of interference ahead for a broad range of communications providers. At the UBS Global Media & Communications Conference on Dec.
Once the writers strike is settled, broadcast networks are considering running scripted programming into summer to complete their season-order commitments.
The FCC is considering a cap on cable ownership that could spell trouble for Comcast's growth plans.
According to USA Today, less than 40% of the United States was able to sit at home and watch as the Cowboys edged out the Packers 37 to 27. The widely anticipated competition between the two 10-1 teams aired locally, but for those not living in Green Bay, Milwaukee or Dallas-Ft.
The country's top communications regulator suffered a major defeat Tuesday night when fellow members of the Federal Communications Commission scuttled his effort to expand government control over cable programming.
The moment of truth may be coming in the NFL Network/Cable showdown. This Thursday the NFL Network scored what is arguably the most interesting regular season game of the year (at least in the NFC): The 10-1 Packers vs. the 10-1 Cowboys.
That's particularly the case in Indiana and Wisconsin, where Colts and Packers fans are more exasperated than excited. Midwestern football junkies already have suffered through a season-long standoff between another popular sports league and these same powerful cable operators.
Internet law professor Michael Geist looks at the way that cable firms are starting to shackle the net access they offer. When cable companies began promoting high-speed internet services nearly a decade ago, many branded them "the internet on cable".
A coalition of the nation's religious television broadcasters, says it is opposed to the Federal Communications Commission using regulatory pressure to force cable companies to convert to a pay-per-channel or "a la carte" business model.
I'm not a Comcast customer. I happen to get service from Verizon, ATT and Time Warner at various locations where I pay for internet service. If I was a Comcast customer, I would tell them, as I am now telling all the services I am a customer of: BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE
Consumers chafe at having only two choices -- phone line and cable -- for high-speed Internet service. For businesses, there are often even fewer options -- the offerings of the phone company -- due to the limitations of cable.
The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms local cable, phone and wireless Internet providers, a study by business technology analysts Nemertes Research has found.
The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after determining that cable companies have become too dominant in the industry, senior commission offi …
The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after determining that cable companies have become too dominant in the industry, senior commission offi …
If [O'Reilly] spent a little time policing his own house, he'd discover that the Fox News Channel has a long history of peddling smut. The old playground taunt turns out to be a truism: He who smelt it, apparently dealt it.
"It's about to lose the right to broadcast CNN in Israel, but the country's largest cable provider appears to have found a replacement: Al-Jazeera in English."
This lady got "fed-up" AFTER she discovered her cable,internet and phone 3-in-1 package was not working. VERY UNHAPPY with a HAMMER!
BRISTOW, Va. - She was fined and got a suspended jail sentence, but Mona Shaw says she has no regrets about using a hammer to vent her frustration at a cable company.
Mona Shaw had heard and seen enough from Comcast, her local cable television provider.
When Suzanne Brackpool asked her telephone company for a high-speed internet connection she imagined that the engineers would solve the problem in a flash.
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