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...WarnerMedia separately pitched a feature film with producer David Heyman, who made the Harry Potter films....
...“They either do something with Charter or they risk being bought by Comcast.”...
...The miss reflected a $59m charge related to Paramount’s scrapping of a $1bn three-year film financing deal with China’s Huahua Media, disclosed last week....
...On Wednesday, Viacom renewed its agreement with Charter Communications, the US’s second-largest cable provider, in a deal that will see its networks offered on Charter’s most popular basic tier....
...Its objections centred on the argument that AT&T could charge more for other distributors — from traditional carriers such as Comcast and Charter Communications to digital services such as Dish Network’s...
...The company’s announcement sparked a sell-off in its shares and those of competitors including Comcast, Charter, Dish and Altice USA....
...Revenues at Comcast’s film studio division, including NBCUniversal, rose nearly a fifth following the latest in its interminable Fast and Furious series....
..., but the news that Fox could consider a break-up reverberated across the industry this week, signalling that the company could be a target for content-hungry buyers including Verizon and John Malone’s Charter...
...the discussions, Mr Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James, have effectively put Fox on the block, a target for content-hungry companies such as Verizon, the telecoms group, and the John Malone-backed Charter...
...A deal between Fox and Disney would attract regulatory scrutiny because it would combine two of the largest film studios and cable network lenders....
...Cable and broadband operators including AT&T, Verizon and Charter Communications are combining and investing in content....
...Between 2009 and 2014, Time Warner spun off Time Warner Cable, its underwhelming cable business, along with AOL and Time Inc’s magazines....
...(A co-producer on that film, David Bergstein, was arrested on fraud allegations in November last year....
...They also have the kind of entertainment assets that a mobile or wireless operator would covet, including cable channels, a film studio and a broadcast studio....
...It struck deals with other operators in the quarter, Charter Communications and MediaCom....
...The key to winning Netflix’s backing was a new pledge from Charter not to charge online services for the traffic they incur on broadband networks....
...Charter had made a hostile bid for TWC last year but was trumped by Comcast’s $45bn offer....
...Charter’s two deals will boost its subscriber base from 6.2m to 23.9m, just behind Comcast’s 27m....
...As the corporation prepares to discuss its next royal charter after May’s general election, with the future of the licence fee up for debate, the BBC is desperate to show it can use technology to make savings...
...“We’re going to sell and spin off about 4m customers,” says Mr Roberts, referring to a complex deal the company struck with Charter Communications....
...Traditionally, one thing upon which the British could rely was that they never heard anything about, or from, the security services, apart from in James Bond films. That has changed....
...The film and television streaming group had for the first time agreed to pay for an internet “fast lane” to reach customers, trampling over the principle of net neutrality, whereby the internet should be...
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