National Cable & Telecommunications Association News
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It’s time to let television viewers buy individual channels rather than being required to pay for bundles of programming, and to end blackouts of sports events in publicly financed stadiums, U.S. Senator John McCain said.
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President Barack Obama named Tom Wheeler, a venture capitalist and former leader of cable and wireless trade groups, to head the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, where he may focus on nurturing mobile technology.
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Dish Network Corp. won a federal appeals court ruling that frees pay-television providers from U.S. regulations blocking the use of some techniques to prevent illicit copying of programs.
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Promotions for television shows aren’t advertisements and should be exempt from pending U.S. limits on how loud ads can be, cable companies led by Comcast Corp. told regulators.
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Cable providers may buy telephone companies that serve customers in their franchise areas, the Federal Communications Commission said in an order published today.
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Regulators will let a rule lapse that allows more than 12 million U.S. cable subscribers with analog television sets to receive signals from broadcast stations without having digital converter boxes.
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Internet-service providers including AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp. promised to take a more active role in fighting online piracy in an agreement with the entertainment industry announced yesterday.
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Four bankers who worked at Credit Suisse Group AG were charged with conspiring to help U.S. clients evade taxes through secret bank accounts, according to an indictment yesterday and people familiar with the matter.
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Time Warner Cable Inc. Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt says not everything on cable is worth watching.
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Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable-television operator, is testing technology to measure consumption-based billing for broadband Internet use, said Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt.
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