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...Job moves Nike chief executive Mark Parker is stepping aside after 13 years as head of the shoe and sportswear maker....
...Other smaller cable network owners such as AMC Networks are feeling the pinch as cable and broadband providers get bigger and the likes of Netflix and Facebook compete for video viewers....
...Comcast-Dreamworks talks Comcast is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for more than $3bn, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could make the cable giant a rival to Walt Disney...
...But Fusion has struggled to build significant viewership for its cable channel and is not carried by Comcast....
...One of the big mysteries in corporate America is whether telecom regulators will allow the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, announced in February, to close....
...David Zaslav, chief executive of cable programmer Discovery Communications, added to the criticism of Nielsen, saying last week “there’s no question that it’s under-measuring . . ....
...He sports a dark jacket, V-neck sweater and white shirt and, most strikingly for Manhattan in winter, the deep suntan that he apparently maintains year round....
...A federal appeals court has bopped the Federal Communications Commission yet again. In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...It has 2.3m U-verse TV customers, while Comcast, the cable TV operator, has 24m. A defiant Mr Stephenson says AT&T’s wireline unit will return to growth....
...From telecoms, AT&T and Verizon, and from cable TV, Comcast and Time Warner. Through the merger with BellSouth, AT&T acquires control of Cingular, the mobile business previously run by both companies....
...The planned joint $17.6bn aquisition of Adelphia by Time Warner and Comcast will consolidate their positions as the two leading US cable network operators....
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