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Summary
Pay television, premium television, or premium channels refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analog and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly by digital terrestrial methods. Some parts of the world, notably in France and the US, have also offered encrypted analog terrestrial signals, available for subscription. Also, some providers offer channels owned by the same company in a single package. For example, American satellite provider DirecTV offers the Encore channels along with the Starz! channels in its "Starz Super Pack"; and The Movie Channel, Flix and The Sundance Channel along with Showtime in its "Showtime Unlimited" package.
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Five companies that want to break up your cable bundle
Tired of paying $100 for hundreds of channels if you only watch five of them? You’re not alone: An increasing number of companies is also looking for alternatives to the traditional cable bundle. The alliance of companies pushing for unbundling contains a few unexpected candidates — one of them may even be the very company that charges you for that bundle.
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Mexican Leaders Propose Telecommunications Overhaul
The sweeping plan would give regulators broad new powers over the companies that dominate Mexico’s telephone, television and Internet industries.
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CME TV ad revenue suffers in adverse conditions as MTG grabs share
Central European Media Enterprises (CME), the European broadcasting group, recorded a revenue decline of 11 per cent year-on-year to $721m (?563m) in 2012. The broadcaster's main competitor in the. . . (free content).
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It’s Dolan v. Redstone on Cable Bundling. Root For Dolan If You Pay a Cable Bill
Charles Dolan doesn’t make a terribly convincing champion of the little guy. He’s worth $3 billion, for starters. He controls a cable company, and those are about as popular with consumers as veterinarians are with dogs. In New York, he’s known primarily as the patriarch of a family that keeps giving the shaft to sports fans, most recently by letting Jeremy Lin depart the Knicks for the Houston Rockets.
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BSkyB and Disney join forces for film channel
BSKYB and Disney are teaming up to launch a new film channel, as Britain's largest pay-TV company increases its effort to stay ahead of rivals.
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Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen Says Networks Have Their Heads In The Sand
Charlie Ergen has a message for Les Moonves and his fellow media CEOs: You can’t hide from the future, or sue it into submission.
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Say it with me now. Data caps are about profits, not recovering fixed costs
There are lies, damned lies, and the arguments the cable industry makes about broadband caps. As more ISPs cap their broadband service, more questions are raised about the practice, which has put cable providers on the defensive.
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Freeview claims households spend £200 a year on unwatched TV
Freeview is to launch a TV ad campaign that questions whether customers are paying too much to watch their favourite programmes, after finding the average household is spending almost £200 a year on unwatched pay-TV channels.
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Freeview ad claims platform airs 95% of top-rating TV programmes
Company takes aim at pay-TV rivals, claiming their customers spend on average £200 on shows they do not watch.
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BSkyB reaches settlement with Livescribe over Sky Wi-Fi Smartpen
Digital pen maker to rebrand product after accepting it infringed trademark – although existing stock can go on sale.
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