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...It may now look for opportunities to snap up other TV assets, for example if Meredith Corporation spins off its 17 local stations following its $2.8bn acquisition of magazine publisher Time Inc....
...Ratings have held up at broadcast channels, such as Fox, CBS and ABC, which have not been as hard hit as cable networks....
...More than $50bn was wiped from the market value of the S&P 500 Media Index, after Walt Disney cut growth estimates for its cable networks and companies including Viacom, Fox and CBS reported declining advertising...
...Pay TV distributors — Dish Network, Time Warner Cable — have repeatedly been locked in nasty disputes with content companies such as CBS and Viacom over so-called carriage agreements in recent years....
...Univision sometimes beats English-language rivals among the sought-after audience of 18-49 year-olds in a market where advertisers now talk of five big broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and Univision...
...Notably the broadcast networks, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, are not included....
...That has pushed networks including HBO and CBS to launch their own online offerings....
...CBS, the US broadcaster, and HBO, Time Warner’s premium cable network, recently announced streaming subscription services that would allow viewers to watch programming without a pay-TV subscription....
...CBS, whose hits include The Big Bang Theory, the CSI franchise and David Letterman, has been broadcasting for free since 1941....
...Cable, Dish Network, DirecTV, CBS and AT&T....
...US television networks including CBS and Fox saw off a serious challenge to their business models on Wednesday when the Supreme Court ruled that Aereo, the digital video service that threatened billions...
...It was followed by CBS, the broadcast network, unveiling a $5.99 a month online service, and promises to reset how US customers watch and pay for their television programmes....
...Broadcast networks – including CBS, Fox, ABC and NBC – earn some $4bn a year from so-called retransmission fees from cable distribution companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Dish....
...In the next two to three decades, western digital networks would end up performing functions equal to the size of the “real” US economy....
...CBS also streams the programme via its mobile app and sells the rights to subscription video and on-demand services, including Amazon and Hulu Plus, a basic cable network, local broadcasters and international...
...Time Warner Cable, for instance, is in a prolonged and public battle with CBS, the broadcaster, over the costs to carry CBS programming....
...Les Moonves, CBS chief executive, told The New York Times he had looked into taking some local stations off the air....
...As Charlie Ergen, chairman of Dish Network, said last week: “People will steal it if you don’t make it easy.”...
...CBS and Turner will next week start broadcasting a frantic string of games culminating in the NCAA men’s basketball championship final on April 2....
...Dish Network, the US satellite TV provider, said this week it would spend aggressively to acquire more content, and BarCap analysts believe CBS is in talks for similar deals with companies such as Microsoft...
...CBS was in serious discussions with Netflix about further deals in Latin America and Canada, he added, while competitors such as Amazon.com and Dish Network, the satellite broadcaster that bid $320m last...
...CBS owns its namesake broadcast network, the Showtime premium cable channel, the Simon & Schuster publishing house, a film studio and a large network of billboards....
...In earnings news, News Corporation, owner of the Twentieth Century Fox film studio and Fox News, rose 3.9 per cent to $14.39 after it followed Time Warner and CBS to post quarterly earnings buoyed by an...
...deals with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Dish....
...The computer maker has discussed new products for the tablet with News Corporation’s HarperCollins and the New York Times, people familiar with the matter said....
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