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...Cable television, a stalwart of the US political industrial complex since the 1990s, is in secular decline, resulting in smaller audiences for Fox News and its rivals this election cycle....
...When Tim Cook visited Capitol Hill to meet privately with senior lawmakers in early December, his company’s relationship with China was high on the agenda....
...I picked my way gingerly over a tangle of cables and took a seat. A few moments later there was a countdown and then the sound of shutters clacking....
...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....
...The opening shot came on Tuesday, as the House of Representatives voted to override a Federal Communications Commission regulation limiting the freedom of cable and telecoms companies to trade personal data...
...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 there was no joking about Univision’s interest in The Onion, whose properties include the pop culture-focused A.V....
...The net neutrality debate has taken on a David v Goliath flavour....
...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 . . ....
...The regulator often seems squeezed between the politically astute cable companies and their friends on Capitol Hill....
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...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...High-traffic gossip site Gawker followed and then came cable channel CNN....
...losing sway over their traditional allies on Capitol Hill....
...The Federal Communications Commission is expected to announce plans next week for regulations that would forbid internet service providers from blocking or favouring content online....
...In this arcane fight, the administration had been seen as being in step with Google against the telecoms and cable companies that have lobbied against net neutrality....
...lobbying campaigns to hit Capitol Hill by major telecommunications and cable providers....
...Here are some of the sectors likely to be most affected: Communications The Republican victory is good news for AT&T and other telecommunications and cable providers but could spell trouble for Google,...
...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....
...The move was praised by Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission chairman, even as the US cable industry poured cold water over what they called Google’s “experiment”....
...Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts was given a mostly warm reception on Capitol Hill on Thursday as Democratic lawmakers gently questioned the impact of the US cable company’s proposed merger with NBC...
...V-me has managed to reach a majority of Hispanic households rapidly, through digital distribution deals with cable, satellite and telecoms networks and by partnering with 40 public television stations....
...The right has existed in US state common law since a 1918 case called International New Services v. Associated Press....
...Under the banner of “network neutrality”, Google, Ebay and other internet companies fought this battle on Capitol Hill three years ago, to no avail....
...The new cable will provide internet and voice operation services to Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines....
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