The NFL and the Olympics are the last major sports properties not yet appropriated by cable.
On-demand services offered by cable and satellite companies and by other vendors on the Internet.
So most American homes have long had the option of television delivered by cable.
Launched in July 2000, Edward's show on the Sci-Fi Channel regularly pulls in 600, 000 households, impressive by cable standards.
The two-hour debate is sponsored by cable television's CNN in partnership with online video-swapping service YouTube Inc. and Google Inc.
Evidently the problem is that access to new movies via a subscription model is already spoken for by cable operators.
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Masada, also part-owned by cable pioneer Daryl Harms, has six patents and a contract to operate a plant in Middletown, N.
Affiliate fees, paid by cable companies to channel owners each month, have steadily grown 8% annually at ESPN in recent years.
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Her usual tricks lacked the vibrancy to capture the imagination of a news landscape dominated by cable giants and non-stop Internet chatter.
But they're increasingly competing with storm-chasing tours, amateur weather enthusiasts inspired by cable TV shows and tornado paparazzi speeding from storm to storm.
Our nation was rewired for a second time by cable plant, a third time by wireless networks, and a fourth time by satellite networks.
The new service, which is still under discussion, would mimic the bundles of channels now sold by cable and satellite operators, the people said.
Netflix competes with Video on Demand service provided by cable and satellite operators like Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV.
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The audience has been trained by cable television to react this way: to hate the nagging wives, the dumb civilians, who might sour the fun of masculine adventure.
Fueled by cable channel shows on grilling, endless books from gurus like Steven Raichlen and Bobby Flay, and primal desires, the barbecue business is red hot.
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Certainly, in remote rural areas not served by cable at all, which constitute about 4% of the market, consumers will now be left with a single, monopoly operator: EchoStar.
Running off any iPhone, iPad or iPod using iOS 5, the app uses a dongle which can be connected by cable or infrared to most DSLRs or advanced compacts.
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Whereas my camp has a healthy respect for investment incentives on a going-forward basis, camp one sees investments by cable operators as sunk and thus ripe for the taking.
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Now all 14 of its 'berths' - areas of sea connected by cable to the shore - are booked, a sign of growing interest in this fledgling source of power.
The company said fatalities on the line had more than doubled in the last year and delays caused by cable theft incidents had increased by almost 500% year on year.
About 80% of the UK is now able to get broadband access through ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), while about 40% of the country is covered by cable broadband connections.
So the DMCA now forces Internet radio innovators like Pandora to pay higher royalty rates for songs played over the Web compared to the rates paid by cable and satellite broadcasters.
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Now, however, TiVo-like technology has plunged in price and complexity and is gaining momentum, for the first time being offered by cable and satellite providers that reach almost 90 million U.S. households.
The TV Everywhere initiative by cable providers is an attempt to retain subscribers by offering a choice of free on-demand viewing over the internet on the condition of subscription to their pay TV services.
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Some people complain about the content, but there's also a question of whether channels like TV ONE and The Africa channel, the newer channels as opposed to BET, are going to be bought by cable customers.
That same report, issued when the agency was headed by Kevin Martin, also called for an end to channel "bundling" by cable and satellite companies, the practice of forcing subscribers to pay for channels they don't watch.
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Next year's launch of two new satellites into orbit should also help with bandwidth issues and allow the launch of new HD channels to compete with the large number currently carried by cable and competitor satellite company Dish.
It has also broached the idea of licensing content directly from media companies for some sort of subscription-TV service, resembling the packages offered now by cable operators, but the talks have been "exploratory, " according to people familiar with the matter.
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