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Netflix or cable? Why not both?

by Scott Tong
Aug 8, 2017
The nation’s third-biggest cable company, Charter Communications, has a new feature for its subscribers: access to Netflix. More than half of the leading cable and subscription TV companies now offer Netflix. It wasn’t too long ago these forces were fierce rivals. So what’s behind the business of partnering instead? Click the audio player above to […]
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Trump's love of cable TV creates an opportunity

by Adriene Hill
Feb 6, 2017
President Donald Trump is a big fan of cable TV shows. That makes it more likely that advocates will try to reach him through advertising, which in turn could drive up ad rates.
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Can the AT&T and Time Warner deal win over regulators?

by Mark Garrison
Oct 24, 2016
The $85.4 billion merger is in for a tough legal fight.
 
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It's not just Barb, Netflix is also having a moment

by Sally Herships
Oct 19, 2016
Companies like Netflix and Amazon are disrupting TV by producing their own content.
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The White House wants more competition, starting with the set-top box

by Nova Safo
Apr 15, 2016
Why the President has singled out set-top boxes
A Comcast set-top box.
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Vice gets its own cable TV channel

by Adriene Hill
Feb 29, 2016
Vice, perhaps best known for its digital content, is trying its hand at cable TV.
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The fight to 'unlock' the set-top box

by Molly Wood
Feb 8, 2016
Thinking outside the box, or opening Pandora’s? FCC chairman Tom Wheeler weighs in.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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The FCC takes on the set top box

by Kai Ryssdal and Molly Wood
Jan 27, 2016
But you may have to keep paying around $230 for your cable box, for now.
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ESPN's ratings are slipping

by Molly Wood
Nov 26, 2015
ESPN has lost about 7 million subscribers since its audience peak in 2013.
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Altice adds Cablevision to its U.S. cable holdings

by Annie Baxter
Sep 17, 2015
The European cable and telecommunications giant is expanding in the U.S. market.
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