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...Disney channels including ESPN have gone dark on the screens of around 15mn Charter Communications pay-TV customers. Such “carriage” disputes occur sporadically. But this one may be existential....
...The blackout of Disney programming began on the evening of August 31, and left nearly 15mn US cable subscribers in the dark during the US Open tennis tournament and the start of the US college football season...
...With ten episodes at his disposal, Boal appears to lose the sense of urgency that defined his scripts for the sweaty-palmed military thrillers The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty....
...A Tate impersonator was there — black T-shirt, dark glasses, trimmed beard — and people queued for selfies with him, presumably with varying degrees of irony....
...In 2015, a quarter-century after “Cold Dark Matter”, and in a darkening, war-torn world, she created “War Room” in “response to the exploded shed . . ....
...Cable players such as Comcast and Charter, which have acquired spectrum in recent auctions, may have also pushed up prices according to analysts....
...Its rival LendingClub is trying to gain a charter by buying a bank, after announcing its acquisition of Radius Bank in February....
...He eventually made a small fortune with Pure, a listed software business, while still in his thirties. Then came Netflix....
...“Thirty years ago, people had to work in libraries or a computer suite....
...The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ruled that it will only allow cruise liner employees to disembark if the companies guarantee to charter private flights to return them home and that...
...For perspective, that's roughly the same revenue as Christopher Nolan's po-faced The Dark Knight generated in box-office receipts in the same year....
...The SLORC went down a dark hole, and the country saw no political development for over two decades....
...Thirty-one per cent of 25- to 54-year-olds said they had listened to a podcast in the past month compared with 16 per cent four years earlier....
...The podcaster is also involved with Annapurna Pictures, the production company behind films Zero Dark Thirty and American Hustle, on an adaptation of an episode of the Gimlet show Reply All....
...Thirty-six-year-old Danish architect and furniture designer Sigurd Larsen has only designed and built five houses....
...You put squares into categories, dark and light, and put them in order: light squares next to dark squares....
...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....
...Amy Pascal, the longstanding lead creative executive who oversaw movies from American Hustle and Zero Dark Thirty to the Spider-Man franchise, will step down as co-chairman of the studio, writes Shannon...
...From Senate intelligence committee rebukes over factual inaccuracies in the film Zero Dark Thirty to stinging criticism from one of America’s leading activist investors, Amy Pascal has weathered big crises...
...Charter shares, which currently trade at a historically high multiple....
...Barry Diller has arrived before me and is chatting to some people he knows on a nearby table, flecks of rainwater on his dark suit and green-and-pink striped tie....
...(Liberty backed a hostile offer from Charter Communications to acquire Time Warner Cable until it was trumped by Comcast last week.)...
...Bilal Ahmed, thirty-six years old, is a single, Rutgers-educated man who lives in a penthouse in Sydney, Australia. He runs a chain of convenience stores....
...White goods, dark times John Browett is a good guy in a bad place....
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