Come on, Doyle, you've been facing economic problems for a few years now like everyone else -- and we're now supposed to believe that it's suddenly the reason behind your poor subscription efforts.
Read more »Come on, Doyle, you've been facing economic problems for a few years now like everyone else -- and we're now supposed to believe that it's suddenly the reason behind your poor subscription efforts.
Read more »Time Warner Cable has announced that it will offer some subscribers a free $300 Slingbox that enables users to watch their cable TV programming when away from home.
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Cablevision Systems customers can now watch free Hulu content, iTunes movies and TV shows, and YouTube videos -- along with digital photos, music, documents and just about anything else accessible on a Windows PC -- on their big-screen TVs. The New York-area operator's Optimum Link service, which launched April 1, is $4.95 per month for subscribers who take both
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he official MLB baseball season isn’t here yet, but that doesn’t stop MLB.com from streaming spring training games over the internet. The first stream will begin with the Philadelphia Phillies vs. the New York Yankees at 1:05 p.m. Eastern.
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Starting today, Feb. 17, if you’re a Verizon FiOS TV customer you’ll be able to stream ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and Buzzer Beater to your computer from verizon.com/fiostvcentral or ESPNnetworks.com using your Verizon username and password.
Read more »After losing an arbitration decision relative to its dispute with Comcast SportsNet California on Nov. 23,
Dish Network disconnected the regional sports network at midnight. The parties had been out of contract since September 2009.

If you're going to spend much of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend on the couch — after all, you'll have lots of food to digest -- there's plenty of TV to watch. Check out our marathon roundup: (All times are ET/PT and subject to change.) Thursday, Nov. 25
Godfather marathon (11:30 a.m.-4:30 a.m. Friday, AMC)

Do you think that DIRECTV carries enough HD networks? There's increasing evidence that the satcaster does -- and it doesn't plan to do anything about it.
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Starting Monday, Jan. 4, Daily Show and Colbert Report will be filmed and presented in the enhanced format, joining most other Comedy Central series, including South Park, The Sarah Silverman Program and Important Things With Demetri Martin in being delivered in the HD format.
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Reader Dave has graciously shared with us a tragic series of emails he sent to Time Warner Cable, the highlight of which comes when he tells them about the time that he called in because the New York City FOX affiliate wasn't working (he wanted to watch the NY Football Giants) and was told that FOX 5 had decided to stop broadcasting in HD.
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Dish Network Corp.'s first-quarter profit climbed 21%, but the satellite-television provider continued to lose subscribers as competition mounts. Sister company EchoStar Corp., meanwhile, swung to a first-quarter loss amid declining revenue.
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Walt Disney Co. took a major step to reshape the Web-TV landscape by jumping aboard video site Hulu, a move that brings together three of the biggest broadcast and cable network owners under the same banner.
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ESPN has launched it first ESPN-branded HD service in Brazil, ESPN HD Brazil, which is also the first 24/7 all-sports HD network in the country. ESPN HD Brazil, which includes live coverage of major sporting events such as the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup, the Spanish League, the Italian League and MLS.
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Time Warner Cable recently announced they'd be expanding their metered billing trial into four additional markets: Rochester, NY, Greensboro, North Carolina and Austin and San Antonio, Texas. In Rochester and Greensboro, the company stated they'd begin tracking user consumption this month, then start charging users the planned $1-$2 overages per gigabyte sometime this summer.
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DirecTV is offering customers 33 movies via its on-demand service in 1080p high-definition format, the so-called "full HD" standard, which the satellite TV operator claimed is more than any other service.
Dish Network -- which has boasted of being "first" to offer 1080p content -- currently lists about 20 movies in the HD format through its own on-demand service.
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Comcast announced that as part of its “World of More” campaign the company is adding 22 HD channels and is making the leap from broadband to wideband with the launch of next-generation DOCSIS 3.0 for residential homes and businesses in the Chattanooga area beginning this month.
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MASN, the local leader in live sports entertainment and the television home of the Nationals and Orioles, will launch its full-time HD channel on Wednesday, April 1 and will televise 210 Major League Baseball games in high definition in 2009.
Read more »Lately, most cable providers have been adding 1-3 HD channels at a time. However Comcast in the Houston, TX market is adding 28 High Definition channels pretty much all at once. We get the feeling they are adding so many since they have so few to begin with.
Read more »The saying for March “in like a lion out like a lamb.” That saying should be reversed if you’re a fan of High Definition via satellite!
It appears that both Dish Network and DirecTV will turn up the heat to their HD customers by launching a handfull of new national HD channels this week.
The cable industry has asked the FCC to change its rules to better protect cable operators and their customers from potential interference from unlicensed devices sharing the so-called "white spaces" between DTV channels.
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