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Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, released its 2012 3rd quarter earning report. First the bad news (for Comcast). The company lost another 117,000 cable TV subscribers in the past quarter. That’s on top of the 176,000 lost subscribers in the 2nd quarter of this year. But all is certainly not gloom and doom [...]
Providence Equity Partners Inc. are cashing out their stake in Hulu to Disney, Comcast, and News Corp. Sources told Bloomberg that “Providence is selling its 10 percent share in Los Angeles- based Hulu for about $200 million after investing $100 million when the venture began in 2007.”Providence is a private equity [...]
Cable and satellite TV providers are still struggling to hold on to video subscribers. Comcast, the largest US cable provider, lost 176,000 TV customers. And Time Warner, the second largest US cable provider, lost 169,000 video subscribers. Even the top satellite provider, DirecTV, posted their first quarterly loss. They dropped 52,000 subscribers last quarter. DISH [...]
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According to Lightreading, cable companies are kicking around the idea of pre-paid cable services:
“The notion is to sell a simple and inexpensive set-top box at outlets like Walmart, Target and Walgreens and pair them with pre-paid cards (or maybe codes of some sort) that would load services by the hour, week [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Justice has launched a “wide-ranging antitrust investigation” into big cable’s dealings with online video providers. The Journal reports that the DOJ wants to determine if tactics like data caps and requirements to login with a cable TV account to watch online video are anticompetitive practices. [...]
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