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...would soon explode, signed a lucrative 25-year pay-TV contract worth more than $8bn with Charter Communications’ Time Warner Cable that ensured the club a steady and sizeable stream of cash flow....
...The clip was played repeatedly on US cable news, and the Wall Street Journal highlighted it in an op-ed entitled, “Tim Cook’s Bad Day on China.”...
...Back in 2015 he tried to buy Time Warner Cable, but the owners — fearful of Altice’s cost-cutting playbook — ran into the arms of rival Charter Communications....
...Facebook and Google are planning a new undersea cable to connect Japan with south-east Asia as the Silicon Valley groups boost investment in internet infrastructure in regions with high growth potential....
...Eutelsat competes with Luxembourg-based SES and Intelsat in the UK and operates 36 satellites over Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
...AT&T took a $15.5bn charge on its pay-TV business in January, as customers switched to streaming platforms from cable and satellite....
...The new fibre frenzy is often compared with the cable rush of the 1980s and 1990s when dozens of new operators emerged to battle Sky in the pay-TV market and BT in telecoms....
...TV deal (FT)...
...But the US justice department last week recommended to the Federal Communications Commission, the telecoms regulator, that the cable should only connect North America with Taiwan and the Philippines....
...“They took the cables, sinks and toilets.” They now live in Hermannstrasse, a mixed neighbourhood of Berlin that is a magnet for refugees from the Middle East....
...However, the team has struggled to place their network with other pay-TV distributors outside of Charter Communications, which bought Time Warner Cable....
...With a background in public relations, he initially joined HBO as a specialist in corporate communications before rising to co-president in 2007 and then chief executive in 2013....
...It also has its own communications “backbone” — more than 400,000 miles of fibre-optic cable that link its data centres around the world....
...Not only are they monitoring deep space — possibly for Vogons — but they are steering satellites that provide broadband across the Middle East and Africa....
...Content costs in TV and film are increasing. And alternatives to pay-TV are increasing.” The global scale and heft of new, deep-pocketed rivals is a key factor in the deal talks, he added....
...Net income at the largest US cable group, which owns the NBC TV networks and the Universal Pictures film studio, rose 18.5 per cent to $2.65bn, or 55 cents a share, in the third quarter, from $2.24bn, or...
...Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Charter have all reported subscriber losses in the third quarter. Altice USA shed a net 33,000 pay-TV subscribers, but that was fewer than the 40,000 it lost a year ago....
...US companies launched more than $101bn worth of overseas deals, with the largest move coming from cable group Comcast as it tries to break up a takeover of UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky....
...And Vodafone’s £18bn deal for Liberty Global’s German and eastern European cable TV operations, 18 years on from its £112bn hostile takeover of Mannesmann’s German mobile business, has provided a perfect...
...TV businesses across Europe....
...AT&T is opposed to selling the TV network, two people familiar with its thinking said, and is preparing to take the Trump administration to court to argue the deal with Time Warner does not pose any threat...
...If approved, the $3.9bn deal will give Sinclair 215 US television stations, up from 173 now, and access to more than 70 per cent of US TV households, including major markets such as New York and Los Angeles...
...Comcast in 2011 acquired NBCUniversal, another transaction that brought together a pay-TV distributor and a film and TV company....
...The Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week extravaganza wrapped up on Sunday, but it was the US cable network’s owner, Discovery Communications, that hooked the biggest catch....
...The offer is underwritten by a consortium lead by Far East Consortium chairman David Chiu, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and its chairman Henry Cheng, and Li Sze Lim, chairman of Expand Ocean L.P. and Guangzhou...
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