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Cable Operators and Broadcasters Turn Up the Volume - Again (Los Angeles Times, 07/14/2010) A group of big cable and satellite operators are teaming up to form the American Television Alliance. The goal of the ATVA is to act as a mouthpiece in the industry's ongoing battle with local television stations over carriage fees.At issue are so-called "retransmission consent" fees that broadcasters want cable and satellite operators to pay them in return for rights to carry their signals. Although Congress passed a law back in 1992 allowing broadcasters to charge pay TV operators, both sides continue to bicker about the issue and consumers often get caught in the middle.The members of the ATVA include Time Warner Cable, satellite broadcaster DirecTV, Cablevision and AT&T ... link to full story |
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Slick Ad Campaigns Now Are Affordable to Small Firms (Los Angeles Times, 06/01/2010) A cable television commercial for the Redondo Beach restaurant Eat at Joe's features high-definition video, a cast of 40 and a catchy jingle that will leave you humming.Particularly enthusiastic about the slick new ad was Alex Jordan, the restaurateur who decided to take the plunge into television advertising after meeting an Altadena couple who were starting their own ad agency. They wrote and produced the 30-second spot for $5,000, and they helped him broker a deal to deliver it to 300,000 homes for $1 every time it ran.Jordan said the TV ad — his first — boosted business at the diner by about 10%. It worked so well, he said, that he's planning to expand the commercial's reach by showing it on the larger Time Warner Cable system starting next month, paying $5 to $15 per showing depending on the time of day ... link to full story |
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Hollywood Eyes Shortcut to TV (Wall Street Journal, 05/22/2010) Major Hollywood studios and one of the country's largest cable operators are in discussions to send movies to people's living-room TVs just weeks after films hit the multiplex, a step that would shake up film distribution.During a cable industry convention last week, executives from Time Warner Cable Inc. made the first formal pitch to the Hollywood studios for what is known as "home theater on demand." The cable company presented a variety of scenarios. But the main one, which has received early support from some studio executives, would allow consumers to watch a movie at home just 30 days after its theatrical release—far earlier than the usual four months—for roughly $20 to $30 a pop ... link to full story |
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Time Warner Cable To Launch Speed2 On Broadband (Multichannel News, 05/10/2010) Speed network is launching an authenticated broadband channel - Speed2 - in June, starting with Time Warner Cable and adding other affiliates as deals are completed by Fox Networks Group. The channel will be available only to Speed subscribers, authenticated by the multichannel provider using a quick sign-in procedure, channel officials said. The agreement with Time Warner Cable to be the first launch partner arose from negotiations that led to January's new agreement in January for carriage of the Fox broadcast and cable networks, officials said.The June launch of a "beta" service will be in Charlotte, N.C. Starting in July, it will be ready for a wider launch. On TWC, the rollout is expected to occur on a market by market basis, Speed officials said. Subscribers who get Speed on TWC will be authenticated using a sign-in screen the cable operator created for that purpose and for account management tasks. The same setup was used by customers to watch Olympics events online from the Vancouver Games, via NBC Universal ... link to full story |
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Time Warner Joins 3-D Cable Frenzy for Tiger’s Return (Orange County Register, 04/07/2010) Time Warner Cable has put its foot in the 3-D TV ring and said it will offer the Masters Tournament in 3-D. Offering 3-D broadcasts is a big step for cable companies. Time Warner has been moving the space-hogging analog channels to digital.Time Warner’s 3-D coverage will be available until April 30 to customers with a cable HD box and HDMI cord. But to get the full 3-D experience, consumers must also have a 3-D HDTV ... link to full story |
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Government Ready at the Touch of a Channel Changer (LA Daily News, 03/07/2010) Now the government is coming into your living room. But there's no need to throw a tea party; it's only if you order it to. Southern California's Time Warner Cable system last week instituted a new service, "My Government On Demand." It's designed to make a wide variety of political and governmental material available to the system's subscribers - at no extra charge - any time they wish to access it ... link to full story |
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Entire March Madness Coverage Is Free for Time Warner (Cable) Users (Orange County Register, 03/04/2010) College basketball fans who want to catch the finals this month can watch the entire March Madness tournament for free beginning March 8 — if they happen to be local Time Warner Cable customers.The CBS College Sports Network is typically $6/month as part of the sports tier, but Time Warner is waiving the fee between March 8 to April 5, coinciding with the final March Madness game. This is a freebie to digital cable customers only. The channel is 261 ... link to full story |
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Investors Getting a Chance to See Whether Madison Square Garden Stock Can Score (Los Angeles Times (via Associated Press), 02/08/2010) Cablevision Systems Corp. is splitting into two, returning the company to its roots as mainly a provider of subscription TV. Separating the businesses could make it easier for the cable TV operations to be sold. Time Warner Cable Inc. seems to be the likeliest buyer of the cable TV, Internet and phone operations. Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt has said he would be interested in acquiring Cablevision's cable systems, among others, if a deal made financial sense ... link to full story |
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Time Warner Offers Free Calls to Haiti (KABC 7- TV Los Angeles, 01/21/2010) Time Warner Cable announced Thursday all calls placed by its digital phone customers to Haiti will be free through February 2010.Calls to landline and cellular telephones are included in the program. Time Warner estimates the policy will provide $200,000 worth of relief to customers ... link to full story |
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Fox and Time Warner Cable Reach A Deal (Los Angeles Times, 01/02/2010) An agreement was reached that will keep News Corp.'s Fox television stations and several of its cable channels on Time Warner Cable systems in Los Angeles and nationwide. In addition to the Fox TV stations -- including KTTV-TV Channel 11 and KCOP-TV Channel 13 in Los Angeles -- several cable networks, including FX, Fuel and local sports channels Prime Ticket and Fox Sports West, are covered by the new contract. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communication, Technology and the Internet, and Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, praised the two companies for reaching the accord ... link to full story |
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News Corp.'s Chase Carey Is Getting Ready for Battle with Cable, Satellite Operators (Los Angeles Times, 12/07/2009) News Corp. is gearing up for an ugly fight with some of the nation's biggest cable and satellite broadcasters. At issue is News Corp.'s push to get distributors such as Time Warner Cable to pay cash to carry Fox-owned television stations. Known in the industry as retransmission consent (don't fall asleep, this is important), it is a federal regulation that allows broadcasters such as Fox and CBS the right to try to get cable and satellite operators to pay cash to carry their local signals. If a deal can't be reached, then the signals can be pulled. ... link to full story |
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White House Begins Campaign to Promote Science and Math Education (New York Times, 11/23/2009) To improve science and mathematics education for American children, President Obama announced a campaign to enlist companies and nonprofit groups to spend money, time and volunteer effort to encourage students, especially in middle and high school, to pursue science, technology, engineering and math. The other parts of the campaign include a two-year focus on science on “Sesame Street,” the venerable public television children’s show, and a Web site, connectamillionminds.com, set up by Time Warner Cable, that provides a searchable directory of local science activities. The cable system will contribute television time and advertising to promote the site ... link to full story |
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Time Warner Cable Supports Pomona Robotics Program (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, 11/16/2009) As people with engineering and science skills prepare to enter retirement, few young people have an interest in those fields of study. In an effort to turn that situation around and make the nation more competitive in these areas, Time Warner Cable will spend $100 million in cash and in-kind resources across the nation to support school programs that inspire children to pursue science, technology engineering and math studies, or STEM. The "Connect a Million Minds" initiative is a five-year project for the company ... link to full story |
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Online Publication Guides Consumers Sort Through VOD Choices (Multichannel News, 11/03/2009) Looking to serve the expanding video-on-demand market, On Demand Weekly sorts through the myriad content offerings and categories to tout the best of video-on-demand programming, as well as hidden content gems. Initially, ondemandweekly.com is providing information about the VOD product available on Comcast and Time Warner Cable's on-demand platforms. Coming out of the gate, the ad-supported service looks at the top three selections in the 12 most prominent VOD categories: drama, comedy, reality, premium TV, pay movies, free movies, sporting edge, events and specials, preschool, kids, music videos and home and nature ... link to full story |
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Valley Residents Not All Tuned into Digital Switch (Pasadena Star-News, 10/03/2009) To many other local television viewers, the nation's June 12 conversion from analog to digital TV has been an exercise in frustration. More than three months later, they complain that with their new digital converter boxes, they can't receive certain channels, that the picture freezes, that it takes several seconds for channels to change... link to full story |
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Imagining a Big Cable Hook-Up (New York Times, 09/10/2009) Until recently, it seemed like a nonstarter. But one analyst says that the cable industry could be — or should be — gearing up for a megamerger. Comcast, based in Philadelphia, reported having nearly 23.9 million video customers on June 30; Time Warner Cable, the New York-based cable giant recently spun off from Time Warner, said it had about 13 million video customers. A combined Comcast-Time Warner Cable would control 37 percent of the United States cable market ... link to full story |
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$150,000 Pledged to Save LACMA Film Program (Los Angeles Times, 08/26/2009) Responding to public outcry over the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's decision to end its 40-year-old weekend film program, two outside organizations have stepped forward to pledge a total of $150,000 in the fight to save the screening series. The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which organizes the annual Golden Globe Awards, and Time Warner Cable, in association with Ovation TV, have each agreed to put up $75,000 toward the LACMA film program, which had been scheduled to close in October. In addition, Time Warner Cable and Ovation said that they will spend more than $1.5 million to market the film program across their multiple media platforms, both locally and nationally ... link to full story |
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First Run Movies at Home (LA Daily News, 08/17/2009) Time Warner Cable subscribers can get a sneak peek at first-run movies from the comfort of home with the newly launched Early Screening On Demand service. Part of the company's On Demand Video offerings, each movie will cost about... link to full story |
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Time Warner Customers Can Install Own Net Equipment (LA Daily News, 08/06/2009) Time Warner Cable subscribers can now install Internet equipment themselves rather than having to schedule a service appointment, the company announced ... The Easy Connect option frees up technicians to work on other service tasks and allows customers to avoid the $19.95 installation fee ... link to full story |
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On Demand Gets Diverse (Multichannel News, 07/27/2009) While most cable operators offer some form of ethnically-targeted tier of linear networks and content, they are increasingly turning to video on demand to attract and retain multicultural subscribers. Using a mix of fee-based and free on-demand content, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable are targeting language-specific and ethically tinged VOD packages to a growing base of multicultural customers ... link to full story |
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Analog Broadcast Shutdown Benefits More Than Just Viewers (Daily Breeze, 06/11/2009) It's not just TV viewers who will be relieved when analog broadcast signals are shut down ... Cable companies have said the transition netted them some new customers in the first quarter, but it wasn't a mass migration. Time Warner Cable Inc. told investors Thursday that it had a spike of new customers in February, around the time of the original deadline, and call center activity has picked up this week as well, as the last procrastinators start dealing with the transition... link to full story |
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