Al Jazeera has acquired Current TV, the cable television network founded by former US Vice President Al Gore.
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Keeping investors guessing, Deutsche Telekom said it would sell 35% of its cable television network and float another 40% on the stockmarket.
America Online, with 8m subscribers the biggest Internet service provider, has more viewers than any cable television network or newspaper, and all but the world's two most popular magazines.
In 1985, Turner broadcasting System, Inc. purchased 75% of the Omni International Complex to house Ted Turner's rapidly expanding cable network television venture.
That box office number determines how much the studio can charge for each movie to be shown on cable and network television.
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News Corp. is a global media company with operations engaged in producing, acquiring, and licensing various operations in film, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite TV, integrated marketing services, newspapers, magazines and books publishing.
So it's not how many people--who wins the weekend, it's how much money a film generates for a studio, not merely from the box office, which is the smallest part--it's only 20 percent of the earnings--but from television sales where it's shown on television--network, pay television, cable--and, of course, DVD and video, foreign sales, toy licensing and even product placement.
Ultimately, this will mean more competition and market share erosion for network and cable television.
Mr. Johnson is the founder of Black Entertainment Television, a cable network he sold to Viacom Inc.
Telephony, network and cable television, music-oriented FM radio, AM talk radio, even satellite radio and television all see their foundations crumbling under the onslaught of the Internet.
What makes the impact from Conan even more impressive is that although the show starts 35 minutes earlier than Letterman, Leno and Kimmel, it airs on basic cable as opposed to network television.
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Uhrman compared it to network versus cable television.
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On top of all of this, network television, cable and print media execs face growing problems as ad dollars shift to the Internet.
When it comes to mediums, Spanish language network TV and cable television registered the biggest gains, up 24% and 13%, respectively, for the first half of the year.
The show, which airs on the I-LifeTV cable channel, is just one of 650 created or carried on Inspiration's four Christian cable television channels, including its Inspiration Network and La Familia Cosmovision.
But many people have resisted the urge to dump cable because they still want live network television.
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It now has every bit of distribution that is regarded as essential: publishing, movie and television production, music, a small television-broadcast network, cable systems and cable networks.
In fact, its media network that includes the ABC television network and the sports cable channel ESPN account for 46% of revenues and 67% of earnings before interest taxes, depreciation and amortization.
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The Optimum App for Kindle Fire allows cable television customers to watch all the channels they subscribe to live when connected to their home network, in addition to all of the On Demand content they receive as part of their cable television service.
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The criminal underworld and inter-generational conflict of The Sopranos is to be beamed to mobile phones, following Cingular Wireless ' announcement Thursday that it has inked an exclusive multi-year deal with premium cable TV network HBO to send video clips of hit television shows to mobile phones.
It had a foothold in television, owning local stations and parts of cable channels, including Food Network.
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NTL, recognised in the industry as the most innovative company, also has the most comprehensive infrastructure cable, mobile telephony, a national fibre-optic network and a television broadcast network.
The Cowboys played in both the most watched network program and most watched basic cable show of the 2011 fall television season.
Spending on ratings-challenged network television, which is both more expensive and less targeted than cable, declined 2.4% during the period.
At 20 he took over the remains of his deceased father's lone cable-television outpost in Centralia, Wash. and turned it into a national cellular network, fueled with massive debt and loans from wireless equipment makers.
Similarly uplifting, the remainder of the TV sector performed strong as well, with network television up 11.6% care of the Winter Olympics and cable and Spanish language television gaining 8.2% and 7.2%, respectively.
On Monday a new television network aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds will premiere on cable TV in some 20 million households.
Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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The sports media company consists of a unique array of broadcast television, cable television, radio and digital sports assets, including NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, NBC Sports Network, Golf Channel, 11 NBC Sports Regional Networks, NBC Sports Radio and all of their respective digital properties.
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Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 18 consecutive years.
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