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...Lombard says the remedies mean that Sky shareholders should now get ready for a higher takeover offer from Fox, as it looks to compete with a potential offer by US cable giant Comcast....
...Altice, the deal-hungry cable and telecoms group controlled by Franco-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi, is lining up a potential $185bn bid for Charter Communications, the second-largest US cable company...
...“A new stranglehold is being placed on our communications landscape, as already dominant cable and telephone monopolies devour former partners or competitors,” said Jeff Chester, executive director of the...
...But Fusion has struggled to build significant viewership for its cable channel and is not carried by Comcast....
...The future for companies such as Charter and market leader Comcast, which is in the midst of its own $45bn mega-merger with Time Warner Cable, will lie in the provision of broadband services....
...However, one of Mr Taubman’s hoped-for megadeals collapsed after regulators blocked cable giant Comcast’s takeover of Time Warner Cable. Additional reporting by Joseph Cotterill...
...US cable giants Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which had been pursued by rival Charter Communications, tied the knot. Charter walked away with some of the deal’s disposals....
...The tie-up could face regulatory scrutiny from both the US Federal Communications Commission and antitrust officials because it would combine broadcast and cable channels and the two largest Hollywood movie...
...Comcast, already the largest US cable television and broadband company, had been widely considered to be out of the running to make a counter bid....
...Comcast is working with Paul Taubman, the veteran dealmaker who left Morgan Stanley in 2012....
...A battle for the future of the US cable industry burst into the open on Monday as Charter Communications went public with an offer for Time Warner Cable worth $61bn including debt, only for its larger rival...
...Cable merger....
...and spending $2.6bn for 27 per cent of Charter Communications, the fourth-largest US cable operator....
...TV partners including Google, Intel, Comcast and Time Warner Cable....
...The agreement between Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable was announced as the US cable industry’s annual NCTA show opened in Boston and will enable their...
...Shares in Comcast, the largest US cable operator, are up 8 per cent this year, while Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator, has seen its shares dip 3.5 per cent....
...Fuelling such speculation, analysts note that Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the two largest US cable TV operators, together hold a 20MHz block of spectrum covering about 80 per cent of the US in exactly...
...CBS, Time Warner, Comcast, Discovery Communications and DirecTV all posted strong quarterly results this week as content owners benefited from new bidders at the table, and consumer demand for cable and...
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...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....
...You’ve seen us have a recent announcement with Cable Labs and Comcast on this area....
...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 news sent a charge through the cable sector, with Comcast up 4.9 per cent to $28.75, Cablevision Systems gaining 10.7 per cent to $19.34 and Time Warner 1 per cent higher at $16.81....
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