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...Instead it has pursued an “arms dealer” approach that allows it to sell content to various streaming services....
...Millicom is based in Luxembourg but operates predominantly in Latin America under its Tigo brand for mobile and cable services, serving about 50mn customers....
...Lewis was given a knighthood earlier this year for his “political and public service”, having been an adviser to former UK prime minister Boris Johnson....
...Its broadcast and cable TV network business grapples with falling ad revenue and a shrinking subscriber base. Comcast however believes Hulu is worth much more....
...Many assumed Iger was ready to jettison the streaming service....
...Others use regular high-speed services via Paris, Zürich and Lausanne. inghams.co.uk...
...We would design around it by putting the reactor far away or building up a berm of the lunar regolith to protect the crew members and distributing the power via long cables....
...The ESPN Plus streaming service, which launched alongside Disney Plus in 2019, has reached 25mn subscribers but they pay a fraction of what ESPN earns from cable TV subscribers....
...“First Apple and now this . . . television, cable and satellite companies will struggle to respond”....
...But it will also strip the company of a crucial source of content and subsidies for its transition from cable TV to streaming....
...In an interview with the Financial Times, Chapek said Disney had been “deluged” with interest from companies seeking to buy ESPN this year amid rumours that the company was weighing a sale of the cable network...
...Other media groups, such as Disney, copied the Netflix model with their own streaming services....
...Hence Chapek’s determination to push deeper into sports betting, mainly through ESPN+, the streaming service of its sports cable network which links viewers directly to their online-betting platforms of...
...New York-based boutique bank Allen & Co received $75m for its services to Discovery while bankers at JPMorgan earned $15m for advisory work and a further $140m for financing services, according to Discovery...
...It also said it was expanding an undersea cable network for Africa....
...“Tech companies are investing in cables and even satellites to make it easier to consume their services and extend their reach,” said Robert Hillard, a partner at Deloitte....
...But Ozy’s claims to have racked up 50m readers and to have partnerships with YouTube and cable channel A&E were also dubious. Former insiders called the company a “Potemkin village”....
...The US political website and subscription service, founded in 2007, has pulled off a rare success story....
...“I think it tells you they’re serious about content,” said Brian Yarbrough, senior analyst with Edward Jones....
...AT&T took a $15.5bn charge on its pay-TV business in January, as customers switched to streaming platforms from cable and satellite....
...But unlike the internationally revered (or reviled) leaders of big tech behemoths, you won’t find the top executives of online pornography offering takes on cable news or sitting next to Mark Zuckerberg...
...Google, together with Facebook, has backed a 13,000-kilometre high-capacity subsea cable between the US, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines known as the Pacific Light Cable network....
...Kenya is a test of whether the service can be profitable....
...In the US, data usage via the cable company Comcast is up 32 per cent nationwide, and by over 60 per cent in locked-down cities....
...But Institutional Shareholder Services, the influential shareholder advisers, has now thrown its weight behind the naysayers....
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