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NEWS ABOUT: Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable stories: 10 news summaries

Time Warner Enlists Networks for Internet TV Test

'TV Everywhere' to include CBS, HBO, and more

Aug 28, 09 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Time Warner has signed up at least a dozen networks for a new Internet TV service, and plans to test the service in select markets soon, the Charlotte Business Journal reports. Onboard are CBS, HBO, Syfy, AMC, and Time Warner’s own TNT and TBS, among others. Time Warner... More »

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television • Time Warner • CBS • HBO • online videos • AMC • TV industry • Time Warner Cable • Sci-Fi Channel • Syfy

(Newser) - Time Warner is scrapping plans to test a new way of billing for Internet access in the wake of a furious backlash from consumers and politicians, BusinessWeek reports. The No. 2 cable provider had planned to bill people in a handful of test markets based on how much bandwidth they... More »

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Internet service providers • billing • Time Warner Cable • Internet access

Time Warner, Viacom Reach Zero-Hour Deal

Cable provider keeps grip on Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV

Jan 1, 09 9:57 AM CST
(Newser) - The countdown to the New Year was a frantic one for Viacom and Time Warner. The companies had set a midnight deadline in their tense negotiations to keep Viacom’s networks—which include MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon—on the massive cable provider. As the ball dropped, Viacom granted a... More »

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television • Viacom • Time Warner • cable TV • MTV • Comedy Central • Nickelodeon • Time Warner Cable • Dora the Explorer

 Sobbing 
 SpongeBob 
 Joins Viacom 
 Fee Dispute 

Ads aimed at winning support in Time Warner feud feature a sobbing Spongebob

Dec 31, 08 5:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Viacom is enlisting some of its best-known kid cartoon characters in a contract renewal battle with Time Warner, the Wall Street Journal reports. Viacom wants higher fees from the cable carrier for its channels, which could disappear from Time Warner's service at midnight tonight if no new deal is reached.... More »

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television • Viacom • Time Warner • cable TV • MTV • cartoon • SpongeBob • Nickelodeon • Time Warner Cable • Dora the Explorer

analysis

Comcast Web Caps May Signal End of an Era

Though limits affect only 1% now, high-def video will change that

Sep 2, 08 4:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Comcast setting a limit on Internet usage beginning next month, the end of the Internet as we know it may be at hand, as ISPs move toward usage-based models like public utilities. Comcast, the second-largest US Internet provider, was careful to say that the bandwidth limit is so high—... More »

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Internet • Comcast • telecom industry • net neutrality • Internet service providers • bandwidth usage • Time Warner Cable • Frontier Communications

Comcast Caps Internet Use, Says 99%
Won't Notice

250 GB-limit intended
to improve web quality

Aug 29, 08 2:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Comcast subscribers will soon have their Internet usage capped, Reuters reports. From Oct. 1, the nation’s largest cable operator will limit monthly residential data use to 250 gigabytes to improve the quality of Internet delivery. The company says up to 99% of its subscribers will be unaffected by the... More »

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Internet • Comcast • FCC • broadband Internet • Time Warner Cable • peer-to-peer

OPINION

 ISPs Should Stay
 With Flat-Rate Pricing 

Analyst argues metered service will halt innovation and stunt growth

Jun 5, 08 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cable companies are wooing Wall Street by saying they’ll offset expensive implementation of a new, high-speed software protocol by metering broadband Internet access. Bad move, Om Malik writes on GigaOm. Flat-rate high-speed access has enabled recent revolutionary innovation in the telecom business, which led to almost 70 million broadband... More »

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broadband Internet • telecom industry • Internet service providers • cable operators • telecommunications companies • Time Warner Cable • tiered broadband

Competition for Cable Customers Turns Nasty

The cable wars turn nasty as telcos fight for a beachhead

Apr 28, 08 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The battle for a larger share of TV customers has taken a nasty turn as companies like Time Warner, DirecTV, and Verizon hone ad campaigns highlighting rivals' shortcomings, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's not the first time operators have taken shots at each other, but it signals a ramping-up... More »

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DirecTV • advertising • Verizon • marketing • Time Warner Cable • AT&T

Comcast, Time Warner Weigh $1.5B WiMax Investment

Companies would back Sprint/Clearwire plan for nationwide network

Mar 26, 08 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, looking for funding in their bid to build a nationwide high-speed wireless network, may have found partners in Comcast and Time Warner, reports the Wall Street Journal. The country’s two largest cable operators are weighing a combined pledge of $1.5 billion to the project;... More »

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Comcast • broadband Internet • Sprint • WiMAX • Clearwire • Time Warner Cable

UPDATED

Time Warner Plans AOL Spin-Off

New CEO also
considers selling
Time Warner Cable

Feb 6, 08 11:44 AM CST
(Newser) - In an effort to revive the company's slumping stock, Time Warner's new CEO plans to break up AOL, keeping its growing online ad properties, but unloading its increasingly obsolete dial-up Internet service provider. Operating income at AOL fell 70% in the fourth quarter, as the company continued to lose Internet-access... More »

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Wall Street • Time Warner • AOL • Jeffrey Bewkes • cable industry • Time Warner Cable

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