Cable Companies

Waiting For Cable Guys Costs America BILLIONS

The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 01.03.2012

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Waiting for the cable guy isn't just frustrating, it is also extremely expensive: A new survey has found that waiting longer than usual for in-home se...

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Comcast Earnings Up

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 01.02.2012

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NEW YORK — Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest cable television company and Internet service provider, continues to be "The Big Engine That Coul...

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Time Warner Cable Buys Insight For $3B

The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 10.15.2011

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NEW YORK — Time Warner Cable will buy Insight Communications Co. for $3 billion in cash as it bolsters its presence in the Midwest, the company said...

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Viacom Sues Cablevision Over IPad Video App

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 08.23.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and other television channels, accused cable TV distributor Cablevision Systems Corp...

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Matt Sledge

Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin On Mideast Revolution, U.S. News, Glenn Beck's Caliphate Theory

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- Egypt's government banned his network and its military threw him in jail, but Al Jazeera English correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin says he fee...

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Cable Subscribers Cut The Cord -- But Is The Internet To Blame?

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cord Cutters, Time Warner Cable, Cable Customers, Verizon, Cable Losses, Cable Subscribers, Big Cable, Cable q3, Cable q3 Losses, Cable Customer Loss, Comcast, Cable vs Internet, Cable Companies, Technology News

NEW YORK — TV subscribers are ditching their cable companies at an ever faster rate in the past few months, and many of them aren't signing up w...

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It's Time for a Sports Fans Coalition

Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Satellite TV, Cable Companies, Stadium Financing, Sports Fans Coalition, Sports News
Dave Zirin

$30 billion in public subsidies have gone into stadium funding over the last quarter-century. It has become a substitute for anything resembling an urban policy in the United States.

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Comcast Way Up In Cable Customer Service Survey

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 05.25.2011

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PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp. showed the biggest gain in customer satisfaction among cable and satellite TV operators, a survey showed Tuesday. ...

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How (Not) to Succeed in Business

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business, Bailout, Corporations, Auto Industry, Telephone Companies, Cable Companies, Consumer Reports, Business News
Peter Clothier

Okay, call me an easy mark. I should have picked up on this long ago. I didn't. But am I alone in thinking that I was somehow cheated?

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