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...Altice USA, a roll-up of regional cable television providers, has seen its own equity value shrivel to just $1bn set against $25bn of debt....
...After all, even as cord-cutting has chipped away at the pay TV audience, there are still some 50mn households paying for cable or satellite television....
...But, with showman’s legerdemain, this intimation of fading powers became incorporated into the staging itself....
...There have been suggestions that the FCC’s about-face was either politically motivated or due to lobbying from the politically powerful fibre and cable industries — a charge the agency denies....
...Cable players such as Comcast and Charter, which have acquired spectrum in recent auctions, may have also pushed up prices according to analysts....
...Two years later he held talks with T-Mobile USA on a possible deal that would see Dish buy out the wireless group. Negotiations between Dish and T-Mobile later broke down....
...Mr Stephenson’s next move was the $48bn takeover of DirecTV, the cable and satellite provider, in 2015, which was a fresh attempt to reshape the global carrier....
...It had been suggested that Sinclair, another local station group, would acquire it as part of a broader redrawing of the cable, satellite and local television businesses....
...Dish, the satellite group that owns a slug of mobile spectrum, could also play a part....
...The strategy comes as TV advertising revenues have exceeded expectations in the past year, thanks to hefty fees paid by cable and satellite groups to distribute channels....
...HBO also has no wish to sever ties with cable and satellite companies in the US and elsewhere that pay handsomely to carry its channel, and which has made it much more profitable than its digital rivals....
...companies in the 1990s and satellite broadband services at the turn of the century, Peter White, chief executive and co-founder of Rethink Technology Research, said that the telecoms industry was “engaged...
...In April, Comcast and Time Warner Cable called off their merger in what would have combined the two biggest cable companies in the US....
...In recent years, industry executives have argued that consolidation would help cable operators better compete against their rivals in the satellite and telecoms sectors, face off against programmers over...
...Cable channels owned by Comcast’s NBCUniversal are among those feeling the pinch: at NBCU’s cable channels, which include CNBC, USA Network and Bravo, revenues from advertising fell 5.6 per cent in the fourth...
...He is already experimenting in this area, launching Sling, a $20-a-month internet TV service that goes “over the top” of the cable and satellite TV companies....
...Opening access in this way could upend the business models of satellite and cable TV companies, who rely on their exclusive access to popular shows to sell their subscriptions....
...The introduction of new regulations would have big implications for two huge deals: Comcast’s $45bn takeover of rival Time Warner Cable and AT&T’s $48.5bn purchase of DirecTV, the satellite broadcaster....
...John Malone’s Liberty Global has acquired cable operators and BSkyB bought Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland to create a pan-continental satellite player....
...The deal has attracted criticism from several companies, such as Netflix, the streaming video service, and Dish, the satellite operator, which have told the Federal Communications Commission that a combined...
...Satellite television changed that dynamic....
...The company sees a cautionary tale in the fees that cable and satellite companies pay to broadcasters in return for their content....
...Following the lead of Home Box Office, a cable station that charged a monthly subscription fee, he realised he could use a satellite network rather than TV towers to beam content across the country, thus...
...AT&T, the nation’s second-largest mobile carrier, does compete with DirecTV, the top US satellite TV provider, in 22 states where AT&T offers U-Verse digital TV....
...local markets are served by just one cable company....
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