Satellite TV providers have been particularly hard hit, with Dish and DirecTV losing a combined 203,220 satellite TV subscribers during the last three months of 210 alone.
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And while AT&T still serves 19.22 million satellite TV customers, more than 1.4 million DirecTV customers have fled the satellite TV provider in just the last two years.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV operator and Fox Corp.
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It was all the people you knew who would, but there was just a step-shift in that ... Young people who were paying you for satellite TV stopped paying you for satellite TV?
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Dish's satellite TV business has been hemorrhaging customers for years.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp (DISH.
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Meanwhile, it has watched its satellite TV business hemorrhage customers.
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Al Jazeera, its satellite-TV channel, promotes dissident, often Islamist, viewpoints.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian satellite TV operator Dish TV India Ltd (DSTV.
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Those without a cable or satellite TV subscription have two options.
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Previously, Saudis could only watch movies on satellite TV or online.
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No cable or satellite TV package required — just a broadband connection.
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DISHING IT OUT: Dish, the satellite TV provider, responded to Rep.
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The TV integrates live cable and satellite TV with streaming channels.
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AT&T also owns DirecTV, a satellite TV rival to Dish.
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It bought satellite TV provider DirecTV last year for $25 billion.
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He lives in Bali and has satellite TV and loves football.
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AT&T's also been raising rates on its DirecTV satellite TV customers.
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Satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp has yet to announce its decision.
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Of course, cable companies do compete with telephone and satellite TV companies.
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For satellite TV, you can have a fixed dish on your house.
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AT&T's results were helped by its purchase of satellite TV provider DirecTV.
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BitTorrent seems to have cable and satellite TV in its sights as well.
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Iraqis watch the show on satellite TV on Germany's Deutsche Welle Arabic channel.
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That means you still have to pay for a cable or satellite TV subscription.
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Dozens of Arab websites, satellite-TV stations and think-tanks relay grievances back home.
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Enter Dish, which currently is a satellite TV company without any mobile telecom offering.
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It lost more than 3,000 satellite TV consumers and 4,31 consumer landline telephone accounts.
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It said ROK reaches 15 million subscribers on satellite TV services on the continent.
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The Cooking Channel is available as part of various cable and satellite TV packages.
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DirecTV and Dish are the two main satellite TV providers in the United States.
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The battle, pitting legacy broadcasters against AT&T and some consumer groups, centered on the recurring satellite TV law known as STELAR, which first passed in 1988 and provides hundreds of thousands of rural satellite TV households with access to broadcast programming.
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With streaming TV, you&aposll still receive many of your favorite channels and programs, just without the big bills of cable and satellite TV. After all, the average monthly cable or satellite TV bill costs $85 to $100, according to USA Today.
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AT&T's entertainment segment, which includes satellite TV provider DirecTV, has been in continuous decline.
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Its customers include satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp and hospitality company MGM Resorts International.
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When Dish reports pay-TV subscriber numbers, it includes satellite TV and Sling TV customers.
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HBO's app for cable and satellite TV customers, HBO Go, also did well this weekend.
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The network launched in 2013 and is carried by select cable and satellite TV providers.
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With Dish he built a satellite-TV empire — and then started wagering on wireless spectrum.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV operator beat estimates on both the top and bottom lines.
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Meanwhile, Disney recently was outbid for British satellite TV provider Sky by CNBC parent company Comcast.
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Last month the company renewed a multi-year distribution contract with satellite TV provider Dish Network.
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Under his leadership, Viacom renewed a multi-year distribution contract with satellite TV provider Dish Network.
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Consumers could get StarTimes cable and satellite TV packages for as little as $246 per month.
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It now offers satellite TV in Ireland, Austria, Italy and Germany, and streaming services in Spain.
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Dish Network fell 2.22 percent to $63.01 after the satellite TV provider's quarterly revenue missed expectations.
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Under IS, civilians in Mosul relied primarily on satellite TV for news from the outside world.
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In 2011, 1,700 of the chain's remaining stores were bought by satellite TV company Dish Network.
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Bezeq owns mobile phone operator Pelephone, satellite TV firm YES and internet service provider Bezeq International.
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Masked men have smashed the offices of anti-Iranian satellite-TV stations that aired protest footage.
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Dish Network fell 1.46 percent to $63.50 after the satellite TV provider's quarterly revenue missed expectations.
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He had preliminary discussions with DirecTV CEO Mike White about merging the two satellite TV providers.
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AT&T has over 153 million wireless subscribers and also owns the satellite TV service DirecTV.
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It is also grappling with cord cutting as people drop their satellite TV packages for cheaper options.
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Both plans offer a $15 monthly credit that can be applied to purchase DirecTV satellite TV service.
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British Satellite TV broadcaster Sky is making Netflix available on its Sky Q set-top boxes today.
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Dish jumped 6.8 percent after the satellite TV services provider reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit.
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Dish jumped 9.4 percent after the satellite TV services provider reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit.
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We don't have — or want — cable or satellite TV, but we do splurge on Netflix as well.
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The satellite TV business has been losing subscribers amid a worldwide shift to streaming modes of media.
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Last month the company renewed a multi-year distribution contract with satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp.
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Dish jumped 7.3 percent after the satellite TV services provider reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit.
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Apparently, it brought more washing machines, cars, music concerts, fashion shows, satellite TV channels than ever before.
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Sky was formed in 1990 when Murdoch merged his fledgling British satellite TV service with a rival.
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The satellite TV provider replaces Linear Technology, which is being acquired by another S&P 500 company, chipmaker .
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Last year, AT&T bought DirecTV for $48.5 billion, adding satellite TV to its wireless and broadband subscribers.
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They have disconnected over the last year, erasing some 40 percent of the satellite-TV company's market value.
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But young Arabs are exposed to a proliferation of Islamic beliefs on satellite-TV channels and the internet.
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Revenue and earnings have fallen in the past year as customers drop the satellite TV service for alternatives.
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The satellite TV company unexpectedly added 148,000 subscribers during the quarter, compared to analyst forecasts of a decline.
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AT&T is considering unloading its ailing satellite-TV operator, DirecTV, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Dish has restored NFL Network and NFL Redzone on its satellite-TV service, it said in a statement.
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Mr. Murdoch, 87, co-founded the satellite TV company in 1989 to compete with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Mr. Murdoch, 87, co-founded the satellite TV company in 213 to compete with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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All the journalists in jail were released, and hundreds of websites, blogs and satellite TV channels were unblocked.
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DirecTV lost 403,000 satellite TV subscribers, more than the estimate of 328,000 customer losses, according to research firm FactSet.
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Ultimately, the more modest deal Congress put together picks apart the various pieces of the underlying satellite TV bill.
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After cable subscriptions, satellite TV brings in the next highest amount of revenue, while streaming video comes in third.
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Cord-cutting continues to sweep the nation with 14.993 million U.S. households ditching their cable or satellite TV provider.
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However, the satellite TV provider saw revenue above forecasts, and it also lost fewer than expected pay-TV subscribers.
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In the first quarter, Bezeq's satellite TV business Yes saw its profit plunge 95 percent to 1 million shekels.
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Dish follows in the footsteps of AT&T Inc, which has both a satellite TV and wireless phone business.
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Dish said it lost about 3.643,000 subscribers to its satellite TV and Sling TV services in the second quarter.
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British Satellite TV broadcaster Sky is unveiling a number of new improvements to its Sky Q service this week.
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If you want to rent a condominium or satellite TV service, you have to go through a GAESA company.
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A lot of people are ditching cable and satellite TV, but still want the basic stations with a subscription.
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Elliott Management, an activist hedge fund, is pressing AT&T to evaluate a sale of the satellite TV provider.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV provider earned an adjusted 229 cents per share, six cents a share below estimates.
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DirecTV has been bleeding satellite TV subscribers with users shifting to cheaper online streaming services like Netflix and Amazon.
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The satellite TV business has hemorrhaged millions of subscribers in recent years as customers move to internet streaming options.
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Ultimately, both Dish's satellite TV business and DirecTV's business may be best off in the hands of private equity.
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The campaign has already reserved about $2.8 million in satellite TV ads slated to air beginning on Tuesday, Sept.
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A media empire led by Al Jazeera, a satellite TV channel, has for decades helped Qatar find a mass audience.
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Theoretically, you could, say, borrow a cable or satellite TV login from a friend or family member for the evening.
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Currently, cable and satellite TV subscribers are forced to rent whatever set top boxes are offered by their TV provider.
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Dish Network — Dish shares dropped more than 22019 percent after satellite TV service company's fourth-quarter earnings missed analyst estimates.
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He's also been criticized for overpaying for satellite TV company DirecTV, which AT&T bought for $67 billion in 2015.
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In 5.83, the cable giant acquired the British satellite TV service Sky, which has a growing streaming presence in Europe.
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Fox said Wednesday it will sell the remainder of its stake in U.K.-based satellite TV broadcaster Sky to Comcast.
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That could mean an end to scientific exploration, GPS service, satellite TV, internet and phone service for millions of people.
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But cable and satellite TV are stickier businesses than web-based services because they're so difficult to cancel, Greenfield said.
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That's a lot cheaper than a traditional pay TV service — and a lot cheaper than DirecTV's own satellite TV service.
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In December, it said it would sell its DTH satellite TV operations, which serves four eastern European markets, to M7 Group.
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The cartel tombs include air conditioning, satellite TV and some are estimated to be worth millions of dollars, according to Guillemard.
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Dish Network – Dish is open to merging its satellite TV business with AT&T's DirecTV unit, according to a Bloomberg report.
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The proposed merger would bring together a wireless, broadband and satellite TV giant with a content powerhouse in movies and television.
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The company lost 22019 million satellite TV subscribers during its fiscal 2018, up from the 995,000 it lost the year prior.
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More than 25,25 satellite-TV subscribers fled in the third quarter, and its bundled-streaming service Sling TV added just 25,22019.
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The bar's eight light bulbs and satellite TV help keep customers chatting, debating local politics, and buying his beer past midnight.
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Though it shares similar branding, DirecTV Now is a standalone, separate service that's completely different from the company's satellite TV business.
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Beyond its famed satellite TV services, Sky also runs NOW TV, Sky Online and Sky Go on the web and mobile.
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Lots switched to an early internet "skinny bundle" from Sling TV, a new product from Dish Network, a satellite-TV provider.
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Boosted by the consolidation of satellite TV unit YES, revenue rose 15.2 percent to 2.6 billion shekels, in line with expectations.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV provider matched forecasts with quarterly earnings of 70 cents per share, but revenue missed consensus estimates.
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"For more than a year, we have conducted a bipartisan investigation of the largest cable and satellite TV companies," they said.
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Dish Network was up 4.4 percent at $63.98 after the satellite TV company was picked to join the S&P 393.
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I appreciated EDITOR'S NOTE and SATELLITE TV, which was surprising because of the letter V at the end of the entry.
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U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network's quarterly results beat Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, as it lost fewer pay-TV subscribers.
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That could mean an end to scientific exploration, GPS service, and satellite TV, internet and phone service for millions of people.
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The case focuses on Bezeq's 2015 acquisition of the remaining stake in its satellite TV unit, YES, from parent company Eurocom.
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If your internet connection isn't fast enough or you'd rather use satellite TV, you can still get a Canal+ set top box.
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It owns PanAmericana, which offers satellite TV services under the DirecTV brand in countries including Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Puerto Rico.
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Dish Network (DISH) is open to merging its satellite TV business with AT&T's (T) DirecTV unit, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Meanwhile, a CloserTV app amalgamates your cable, satellite TV, and streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video into one place.
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The Ambazonians have printed passports, designed a currency and a flag, composed a national anthem and set up a satellite TV station.
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The satellite TV provider saw revenue above forecasts, however, and it also lost fewer pay-TV subscribers than analysts had been forecasting.
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But to stream the Olympics via the network's website or app, you'll need to have a cable or satellite TV subscription login.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV provider came in 55 cents a share below estimates, with quarterly profit of 26 cents per share.
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We spend way less on a few streaming services than we would on a cable or satellite TV subscription in our area.
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One sure sign of a migrant family is a single solar panel on the home's tin roof, alongside a satellite TV dish.
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According to AT&T sources, the Justice Department asked the company to rid itself of Turner or DirecTV, the satellite TV provider.
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"Satellite TV subscriber losses are accelerating while over-the-top subscription growth has stalled," said Walter Piecyk, an analyst with BTIG Research.
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Live TV: A live TV streaming service carries popular channels you&aposre already familiar with through your cable or satellite TV subscription.
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More Americans still subscribe to cable and satellite TV than Netflix, which has about 60 million subscribers, or any other streaming service.
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T-Mobile and satellite TV provider Dish won the bulk of the spectrum, making them more attractive M&A targets, analysts said.
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"The addition of Sky diversifies its portfolio/doubles its scale, but exposes it to satellite TV, which faces secular pressures," she wrote.
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That list included Blockbuster stores purchased out of bankruptcy, Slingbox streaming devices and wireless spectrum, along with Dish's core satellite TV business.
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AT&T expected DirecTV's satellite TV business to decline, though the speed at which it has lost customers has surprised some internally.
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They have daily access to four state-run newspapers selected by the authorities, but no telephone, internet or satellite TV, said Amir-Arjomand.
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"In retrospect, they diversified away from wireless right at the bottom and diversified into satellite TV right at the top," Moffett told CNBC.
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Dish Network Corp rose 2.4 percent after brokerage Guggenheim Partners said the satellite TV service provider's shares will see significant upside in 2019.
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Watching TV through individual network applications is something that those who pay for cable or satellite TV can do by providing their credentials.
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That would come later with television, which began pushing against FCC regulations, and then cable and satellite TV, which have no FCC restrictions.
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Even so, those who self-bundle are less likely to subscribe to more the expensive traditional cable and satellite TV services, Gfk found.
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AT&T has already made moves to turn itself into a media powerhouse, buying satellite TV provider DIRECTV last year for $48.5 billion.
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AT&T bet on DIRECTV's satellite TV business aiming to beef up its bundles of cellular, broadband, TV and fixed-line phone services.
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Hundreds of websites, blogs and satellite-TV channels have been unblocked since Abiy Ahmed took office as prime minister in April last year.
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Many of the events require a cable or satellite TV subscription, but fans can sign up for access via Sony's PlayStation Vue service.
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They blocked mobile networks in 2014 and banned satellite TV earlier this year, allowing home internet access only through a server they controlled.
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AT&T tumbled 5.9 percent after U.S. wireless carrier's quarterly profit rose less than expected, held back by its declining satellite TV business.
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Satellite TV, a radio, bedside phone and Wi-Fi are on offer, and there is a reclining seat for partners in every room.
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Liberty Global's DTH satellite TV operations serve four east European markets - Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania, the company said in a statement.
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The satellite TV company is offering a "skinny" version of its traditional TV package for about half the price of its current plans.
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Yes, you read that correctly — the satellite TV box in your home tracks everything you watch and makes that information available to advertisers.
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Syria's prime minister, Wael al-Halqi, told Syrian Satellite TV that "terrorist" attacks in the city had killed six people and wounded 25.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV provider's customers are without CBS television stations, with the two sides unable to reach a new carriage agreement.
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AT&T has already made moves to turn itself into a media powerhouse, buying satellite TV provider DirecTV last year for $48.5 billion.
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Satellite TV lost 2202 million subscribers in 2628; the top cable providers saw close to 28500 million people cut the cord last year.
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Dish said it added about 227,3.783 net subscribers to its satellite TV and Sling TV services in the three months ended Dec. 23.78.
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The investigation comes as the U.S. cable and satellite TV industry ranks among the lowest in consumer surveys over billing and other practices.
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And don't forget miscellaneous expenses, such as communications (like navigation and Satellite TV) and administration (mail and office supplies, to name a few).
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That can make sense in some cases because they are designed to cover an entire continent with satellite TV or some satellite internet.
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The TV exec has been outspoken about the fact that consolidation is coming to the satellite-TV industry, which is in secular decline.
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Conflicts between satellite TV providers and media companies have become increasingly common as viewers migrate to streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon.
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Dish Network's chief financial officer, Steven Swain, is leaving the U.S. satellite TV provider to become the finance chief at Brookdale Senior Living.
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It takes one day for them to complete each orbit and are typically used for communications like satellite TV or satellite navigation systems.
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Sunday Ticket, which lets subscribers watch out-of-market NFL games every Sunday, is arguably the centerpiece of the satellite TV company's service.
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My brother and I share bills for any extras, including cell phones, satellite TV, internet, and a long-distance phone line among other things.
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And there were several other potential partnerships (with a cable or satellite TV provider) that could have kept Sprint afloat without reducing overall competition.
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The company today operates two streaming services — the authenticated service HBO GO for cable and satellite TV subscribers and HBO NOW for cord cutters.
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Why it matters: Americans are increasingly giving up on expensive cable and satellite TV packages for more affordable services delivered over a broadband connection.
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And that means we could potentially lose certain capabilities that rely on satellites, from satellite TV and communications to Earth observations and space research.
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The DOJ's case was narrow, focusing on two peripheral assets, AT&T's satellite TV business and a group of channels known as Turner Networks.
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Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp is expected to report first-quarter earnings marginally above analysts average estimate, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data.
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The satellite TV provider is reportedly willing to pay "at least" $6 billion for the spectrum and Boost Mobile, which is Sprint's prepaid brand.
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But that coming bundle will be a digital alternative for a cable or satellite TV package that could cost twice as much as that.
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That would put all the vMVPDs at more than 7 million total users – or nearly one-third the number of households with satellite TV.
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Dish Network Corp fell 5.6 percent after the U.S. satellite TV service provider lost more-than-expected pay-TV subscribers in the fourth quarter.
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AT&T recently announced it would reinstate unlimited data for customers who subscribe to its U-Verse television plans or DirecTV's satellite TV service.
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But a deal would come at a time when consumers are abandoning cable and satellite TV subscriptions in favor of streaming services like Netflix.
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Comcast had initially been drawn to Fox primarily for its international holdings, which include a 39 percent ownership stake in the satellite TV service.
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But none of RT's social media activities or its presence in cable and satellite TV lineups has delivered the impact of its YouTube channel.
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That compares to a projected 90 million U.S. households that will pay for cable or satellite TV this year, according to S&P Global.
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Satellite TV was popular in the '80s and '90s as subscription channel bundles became more sophisticated — and before the advent of the consumer internet.
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The young Venezuelans make their shields from satellite TV dishes, drain covers, barrels or any other scraps of wood and metal they can find.
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YouTube is joining a range of services targeting consumers who want to give up cable or satellite TV without losing access to live television.
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Dish Network Corp dropped 5.1 percent after the U.S. satellite TV service provider lost more-than-expected pay-TV subscribers in the fourth quarter.
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Hearst, Dish, News Corp and British satellite TV provider Sky have also put money into Roku, which has now raised at least $200 million.
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It's no wonder then that millions of Americans are getting rid of paid cable or satellite TV packages and subscribing to streaming services instead.
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For example, cord cutters watch a lot more over-the-top content – that is, streaming video that's available without a cable or satellite TV subscription.
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It went dark on the satellite TV provider last night after the two sides were unable to come to terms on a new distribution contract.
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AT&T offers unlimited data only to customers who also use its satellite/TV services, while T-Mobile and Sprint offer the plans to everyone.
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The companies say they fear that executives with AT&T, which owns satellite TV provider DirecTV, could inadvertently gain access to it during the trial.
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Dish Network beat estimates for quarterly revenue on Monday, as the U.S. satellite TV service provider lost fewer pay-TV subscribers than analysts had expected.
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However, Dish's net income grew to $410 million, up 26.5 percent year-over-year, thanks to it boosting its prices for the satellite TV service.
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And the cost of these channels — which is ultimately borne by customers of cable, satellite TV and other telecommunications companies — is too often eye-popping.
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The groups want providers of broadband internet services including mobile and landline phone, cable and satellite TV firms to be subject to tough privacy regulations.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State on Tuesday urged Muslims to destroy their satellite TV sets to prevent hostile channels "destroying their beliefs and polluting their ethics".
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DirecTV Now, the satellite TV provider's eponymous alternative to Dish Network's Sling TV and Sony's Playstation Vue, has not gotten off to a great start.
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That means, it's not positioned as a way to watch Viacom's programming when you ditch your cable or satellite TV subscription in favor of streaming.
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Al-Quds, a Palestinian satellite TV station, was declared a terrorist organization by Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who called it a "Hamas propaganda arm".
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Dish, a satellite TV company in the U.S., is looking for someone to binge 13 Stephen King movies in a row and document the experience.
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Connections to the outside world — the internet, of course, but particularly satellite TV broadcasts that broke the veil of isolation — were critical drivers of change.
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The merger is unwelcome news for American consumers, notwithstanding requirements for the two firms to divest assets and share spectrum with Dish, a satellite-TV provider.
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Under the proposal, which still needs regulatory approval, Bezeq would combine its mobile phone, satellite TV and Internet service provider businesses - Pelephone, YES and Bezeq International.
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At full capacity, it can hold 10,000 worshippers and is also the broadcasting headquarters for the organization's 24-hour satellite TV station, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International.
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Charlie Ergen and his satellite-TV company are the most likely candidates to step into the role filled by Netflix and Sprint on other recent deals.
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In response to the rate hikes, AT&T has been losing both satellite TV and streaming video subscribers in record numbers over the last few quarters.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV company announced it would issue at sell $1 billion in convertible notes due in 2024 to a group of institutional investors.
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The case has focused primarily on alleged improprieties surrounding Bezeq's 2015 acquisition of the remaining stake in its satellite TV unit YES from parent company Eurocom.
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The company said its pay-TV business, which includes both satellite TV and streaming service Sling TV, lost a net 229.75,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter.
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AT&T is considering unloading its ailing satellite-TV business, DirecTV, after acquiring it for $49 billion in 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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The transaction would give A&T, the nation's No. 2 wireless carrier and owner of satellite TV provider DirecTV, possession of HBO, CNN and Warner Bros.
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I watched in confusion and horror as the news broke in my family's living room via Chinese satellite TV, struggling to pick up what was happening.
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The topic engaged the chief executives from mall operators to a satellite TV provider, consumer products makers, an auto parts retailer, and pharmacy and drug companies.
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In addition, there is the additional cost of paying for an internet connection — something that cable and satellite TV companies bundle with the cost of television.
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It features 5 cabins and sleeps 12 people ... with amenities that include a BBQ, satellite TV, wifi, a jacuzzi and docking stations for multiple jet skis.
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He added that satellite TV company Dish (DISH), in addition to the four large wireless telecoms, spent more to lease tower space in the fourth quarter.
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Dish, whose primary business is delivering satellite TV, has no history of building its own wireless network and has failed to find a suitor for its assets.
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Here's how the company did compared with what Wall Street expected: The company's satellite TV division DirecTV reported a net loss of 2000,22018 subscribers for the quarter.
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More than 1 million people ditched their cable and satellite TV packages last quarter, the most ever in a quarterly earnings period, according to research firm MoffettNathanson.
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White, 64, an advisory partner for Trian Fund Management, recently retired as chairman and CEO of satellite TV provider DirecTV and was formerly CEO of PepsiCo International.
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The migration of satellite-TV customers to online-streaming broadcasters, such as Netflix, was the rationale behind AT&T's takeover of Time Warner (since rebranded as WarnerMedia).
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Dish Network — The satellite TV operator fell four cents short of estimates with quarterly earnings of 64 cents per share, though revenue was very slightly above forecasts.
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And entering the wireless business is a good opportunity for Dish given their satellite TV business is "collapsing," said Roger Entner, a telecom analyst with Recon Analytics.
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The FCC is a five-member body that regulates cable, radio, satellite, TV, and the internet, with oversight on issues like media company mergers and net neutrality.
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To win approval, the companies agreed to sell assets to Dish intended to help the company, which now provides satellite TV service, launch a new wireless carrier.
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In existing media M&A news: Fox has increased its bid for the Sky satellite TV company, topping Comcast's last offer for the asset by 12 percent.
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Sky was formed in 1990 when Murdoch merged his fledgling British satellite TV service with a rival, and is a broadcaster of sports, films and TV shows.
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CBS – CBS and Dish Network agreed on a new carriage contract that ends a three-day blackout of CBS channels for the satellite TV service's subscribers. Amazon.
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BCE added 22,402 customers in its Fibe TV business and 13,989 customers in its high-speed internet segment but lost 38,065 satellite TV customers during the quarter.
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That is, instead of entering in your cable or satellite TV credentials to gain access to the app, you can just enter in your Amazon account information.
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LEDE: The biggest names in cable and satellite TV are being hauled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to answer questions about their customer service and billing practices.
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Someday soon, more U.S. households will be subscribers of Amazon Prime than cable or satellite TV, according to recent estimates of Amazon's popular shipping and entertainment service.
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Satellite TV installation and associated customer acquisition costs are typically more than $700 — a figure that will be drastically lower without the cost of a dish installation.
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Many programs readily available in Belgium by satellite TV and the Internet feed Arabic-speaking viewers a constant diet of Salafist propaganda, conspiracy theories and anti-Semitism.
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Comcast paid $40 billion for Sky, a satellite TV, broadband and mobile operator, in September to fuel global growth and counter declines in U.S. cable TV subscribers.
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AT&T missed fourth-quarter revenue estimates as another fall in subscriptions to satellite TV provider DirecTV overshadowed better-than-expected sign-ups in monthly phone subscribers.
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Seeking to find new streams of revenue, it launched a low price, Internet-based service last year that competes with cable company HOT and satellite TV firm YES.
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Comcast and rivals such as satellite-TV operators Dish Network and AT&T have raised 2016 rates to cover rising costs to provide broadcast programs and sports content.
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That's not the case with pay TV. The cable TV guys have had competition from the satellite TV guys for many years, and more recently from the telcos.
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As The New York Times points out, internet downloads and satellite TV have made it possible for citizens to watch movies, even without theatrical exhibition as an option.
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Having watched cable broadband internet undercut Dish's satellite TV advantage, Ergen is one step closer to having a chance to offer a package of competitive mobile internet service.
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With the ink barely dry on AT&T's $86 billion merger with Time Warner, the company keeps imposing price hikes on the company's streaming and satellite TV subscribers.
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The total number of pay-TV subscribers, or people who buy cable or satellite TV packages, dropped 4.1% year-over-year last quarter, according to research firm MoffettNathanson.
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Entrepreneurs have increasingly begun to view the sky as a new market which can help feed the burgeoning global demand for more communications, satellite TV and broadband services.
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Dish Network was up 503 percent at $64.16 after S&P Dow Jones Indicies said the satellite TV company will join the S&P 500 on March 13.
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Internet companies have fought with cable companies over the proposal, which would force cable and satellite TV providers to open up their feeds to third party equipment providers.
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It's cheaper than a cable or satellite TV subscription, and my husband and I love that there are a lot of quality shows that our daughter can watch.
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The official said the AT&T deal would be more harmful to consumers than the 2011 Comcast-NBCUniversal deal, in part, because DirecTV satellite TV reach is nationwide.
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LEDE: Cable and satellite TV operators, as well as radio stations, will likely soon have to begin publishing online records about the groups buying political and other ads.
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By the numbers: Satellite TV services (mainly DirectTV and Dish) had more net subscriber losses in 22016 than in any previous year, according to Leichtman Research Group, Inc.
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AT&T, like other pay-TV providers, has been losing linear TV subscribers as viewers "cut the cord" on satellite TV packages in favor of cheaper streaming options.
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The offer was considered to create a new colossus capable of both producing content and distributing it to millions with wireless phones, broadband subscriptions and satellite TV connections.
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But this is the first time the American company is letting users pay their electricity, water, cooking gas, broadband and satellite TV bills with voice and Amazon Pay.
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The company is said to have considered a spin-off into a separate public company, and a combination of DirecTV's assets with rival satellite TV operator Dish Network.
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The hikes come at a time when more consumers are giving up expensive monthly cable or satellite TV services and are watching more TV shows on streaming services.
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Go deeper: The sports rights arms race Satellite TV hit hard by cord-cutting crisis as viewers flee live TV Skinny bundles may not salvage pay-TV declines
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The general idea is that each of these TV services will appeal to cord-cutters and cord-nevers who consider old-style cable and satellite TV too costly.
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A combined AT&T and Time Warner would have much more heft and could force higher prices on TV distributors, leading to higher cable and satellite TV bills.
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The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) last year began investigating suspicions that Elovitch meddled in the 2015 merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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Apart from its 193 public radio stations, the country has another 24 private radio stations, owned by Malaysian satellite TV giant Astro as well as academic and private ventures.
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Previously, the DOJ and FCC had approved the merger after reaching a side deal with Dish Network, the satellite TV provider that wanted to develop its own wireless platform.
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The general idea is that each of these TV services will appeal to cord-cutters and cord-nevers who merely consider old-style cable and satellite TV too costly.
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The yacht also boasts a state-of-the-art audiovisual system, satellite TV and fast WIFI ... so you can still check your Instagram from the middle of the ocean.
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AT&T's DirecTV has locked up NFL Sunday Ticket, which allows millions of Americans to watch out-of-market games on satellite TV or their mobile devices, through 2022.
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Dish has just below 53 million satellite TV customers and loses hundreds of thousands of subscribers each quarter as subscribers cancel video service in the face of ballooning costs.
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The acquisition does not involve conventional antitrust concerns, in that it is a vertical integration of distribution (wireless, broadband and satellite-TV) and content (TV networks, HBO and films).
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But the satellite TV provider must start building out an actual network if it wants to hit a March 2020 federal deadline that's in place for those spectrum licenses.
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The incomprehensible brutality of life under ISIS, the public executions, beheadings, school curriculums that taught of slaughter, mandatory black niqabs and long beards; smoking, cell phone, satellite TV bans.
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Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Dish Network — The satellite TV company earned 76 cents per share for its latest quarter, 7 cents above estimates.
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But the DOJ's complaint fails to mention how AT&T is aggressively pricing its own innovative DirecTV Now internet TV streaming service, which cannibalizes its own satellite TV business.
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But Netflix's offering is currently more or less unique in the market, and its costs to consumers still far undercut the alternative — a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription.
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AT&T lost 778,000 video customers in Q2 2019, mostly attributable to its satellite TV business DirecTV, acquired in 2015, per the company's Q2 2019 earnings reported yesterday morning.
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CBS and Dish Network resolved a dispute over the fees the satellite TV provider pays to the broadcaster, ending a three-day blackout that affected customers across 26 states.
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Why it matters: Telecom companies once saw satellite TV services as a good way to expand their customer bases, leading to acquisitions like AT&T's DirecTV buy in 2016.
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Dish Network said in November that its pay TV subscriber losses accelerated in the third quarter – a group that's now a combination of Sling TV and satellite TV customers.
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While satellite TV companies rely on expensive satellites in high orbits, the satellites designed by Amazon, SpaceX and others are expected to be small and in relatively low orbits.
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One advantage for YouTube is that it is already the place where many young consumers who have never paid for a cable or satellite TV subscription get their content.
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He reached a handshake agreement to sell his satellite TV business, Echostar, then went back and tried to get more money, according to two people familiar with the talks.
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Fox's sale hands full control of the satellite TV company to Comcast Chief Executive Officer Brian Roberts, giving the U.S. cable company a global footprint of 53 million customers.
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For instance, if a customer purchases their satellite TV subscription over the phone, the next ad that they see will offer an upgrade, not an incentive to sign up.
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Some of the larger positions in CSAM's BWIC include €6.5m of telecom business Matterhorn; £5m of cable operator Virgin Media; and €5.2m of Luxembourg-based satellite TV business M7.
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According to a recent Nielsen report, the percent of US homes without traditional cable or satellite TV has increased 48% over the past 12.993 years, totaling about 16 million households.
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The only thing Ergen has consistently discussed is an overarching goal to transition his aging satellite TV provider into a mobile wireless distributor that doubled as a digital video operator.
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What that means for those considering ditching their cable or satellite TV subscriptions, is that there's now more ways to access PlayStation Vue without the need for a PlayStation console.
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The No. 2 U.S. satellite TV provider said full-year net income attributable to the company tumbled 21 percent from a year earlier to $22016 million, or $229 per share.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV operator reported quarterly profit of 653 cents per share, falling short of consensus estimates by three cents, although revenue did come in above analyst projections.
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Verizon's rival AT&T Inc has an online streaming television service called DirecTV Now, while U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp in 2015 launched Sling TV, a streaming service.
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The watchdog launched its investigation in May last year, after the offices of the Milan-based broadcaster and satellite TV group were raided in a broader inquiry of match-rigging.
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AT&T, which sells wireless phone and broadband services, has already made moves to turn itself into a media powerhouse, buying satellite TV provider DirecTV last year for $23.4 billion.
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"Without the required divestitures, Nexstar's merger with Tribune threatens significant competitive harm to cable and satellite TV subscribers and small businesses," Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim said in the statement.
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It is preparing to launch its online streaming TV service, DirectTV NOW, as it seeks to woo viewers who want a less expensive alternative to cable and satellite TV services.
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In one email Mr. Conrath mentioned on Thursday, a Turner executive explained how Dish TV, AT&T's top rival in satellite TV service, would be weakened without his company's channels.
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AT&T lost more satellite TV customers than Wall Street expected in the third quarter, shedding a net 359,22019 subscribers, as viewers move to services like Netflix Inc and Hulu.
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Within a couple of years, more U.S. households could be subscribers of Amazon Prime than cable or satellite TV, according to recent estimates of Amazon's popular shipping and entertainment service.
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As viewers continue to watch cable or satellite TV alongside their digital services, broadcasters will experiment with combined selling of content across traditional TV and OTT to maximize potential profits.
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Whereas cable TV signals enter your home through a dedicated line and satellite TV signals enter it over the air, streaming TV services enter your home through your internet connection.
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" On the call, Legere said that satellite TV provider Dish had access to content and spectrum and that Sprint has "an awful lot of scale and a good customer base.
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Dish Network (DISH) was upgraded to "neutral" from "underperform" at Credit Suisse, which thinks video subscriber losses for the satellite TV provider will lessen in the second half of the year.
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Despite the legal controversy surrounding him, Deya has remained active, overseeing a satellite TV channel broadcast in Africa and Europe, an online radio channel, and churches in London, Liverpool, and Manchester.
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The service is primarily meant as a nice additional benefit for customers who already pay for cable or satellite TV. NBC's decision isn't totally motivated by supporting Comcast's cable TV business.
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The number of people in the UK subscribed to streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon have overtaken cable and satellite TV subscriptions, media regulator Ofcom said in a new report.
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Customers making the switch from cable or satellite TV to digital options like Netflix—often called cord cutting—has hit numerous TV providers hard as customers flee to modern streaming alternatives.
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The ISA said last month its case focuses on Bezeq's 2015 acquisition of the remaining stake in its satellite TV unit, YES, from parent company Eurocom, which is owned by Elovitch.
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It was also talking about selling off some of its cable TV properties — but not its core sports or news channels — along with its stake in the Sky satellite TV business.
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On his side in this culture war are many of a young generation keen to catch up with a liberal world they follow on social media, satellite TV and trips abroad.
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In August, Bezeq said it planned to merge its mobile phone, satellite TV and Internet service provider units into one company, pending regulatory approval, as part of efforts to cut costs.
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Dish Network — The satellite TV provider was upgraded to "outperform" from "neutral" at Macquarie, seeing significant upside from Dish's ability to meaningfully participate in an upcoming spectrum auction among other factors.
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That has included buying DirecTV for $48.5 billion, adding satellite TV subscriptions as an additional source of negotiating leverage with content providers, along with the satellite company's steady stream of cash.
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Since Stephenson can get economies of scale, and AT&T controls both the largest satellite TV company and the largest mobile network, he's hoping to gain market share during the transition.
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The company's pay-TV business, which includes satellite TV and Sling TV, lost a net of 194,000 subscribers in the fourth quarter, fewer than the 334,3.313 it lost a year earlier.
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And of course, U.S. households can also pick up their local PBS station's signal for free via their digital antenna, or subscribe to cable or satellite TV to access PBS channels.
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REALITY CHECK: Next week, the commission is going to vote on a item requiring cable and satellite TV companies to post their "public file" -- which includes information on political advertisements -- online.
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First there was cable and satellite TV consolidation, with Charter buying Time Warner Cable (after Comcast's attempt was denied by regulators), Altice acquiring Cablevision and Suddenlink, and AT&T buying DirecTV.
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Time Warner's portfolio includes TNT, CNN, TBS and HBO, and would definitely give AT&T ownership of some of the premium content that drives demand for its satellite TV and broadband services.
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AT&T has been seeking new revenue sources in an oversaturated wireless market, and has acquired satellite-TV provider DirecTV to offer bundles of cellular, broadband, TV and fixed-line phone services.
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Thanks to developer tools like the Video Skill API, other cable and satellite TV companies, streaming services, and content providers can now add voice control to their devices and apps, as well.
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Broadcasters opposed reauthorizing STELAR, arguing the law is obsolete and maintains an outdated subsidy that discourages satellite TV providers from negotiating to secure local broadcast channels for some of these rural customers.
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Dish Network was upgraded to "strong buy" from "market perform" at Raymond James, which sees upside for the satellite TV operator on multiple fronts involving both its pay-TV and wireless operations.
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HBO's channels have gone dark for Dish and Sling TV customers due to an ongoing dispute between the premium cable network and the satellite TV provider, according to a report from Variety.
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Considering Pai chairs an organization that is in charge of regulating cable, radio, satellite, TV, and the internet, showing favoritism toward any technology company is neither a good or an ethical look.
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Fifteen percent of Americans have quit their cable subscription — while another 9 percent have never had cable or satellite TV subscription at all, according to a December 2015 Pew Research Center report.
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Prince Alwaleed controls the investment firm Kingdom Holding and is one of the world's richest men, owning or having owned meaningful positions in satellite TV networks, as well as in News Corp.
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This move comes at a time when Dish just lost a record number of subscribers, having shed a net 281,000 customers across both its satellite TV and Sling TV services in Q2.
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Having just exited from beta back in August, Live TV is Plex's big bet to capitalize in the shift to streaming TV online, instead of through traditional cable and satellite TV providers.
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The new Charter would be the country's second-largest broadband company, after Comcast, and the third-largest cable and satellite-TV company, after Comcast and AT&T, which last year acquired DirecTV.
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Israel's dominant telecoms operator has long argued for an end to its "structural separation", which forces it to keep its mobile phone, fixed line, satellite TV and internet units as separate entities.
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The campground's African safari-inspired lodges can sleep up to five people and include a bathroom and shower, a sitting room with a satellite TV, and a fully equipped kitchenette and refrigerator.
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AT&T is now thinking about spinning DirecTV off into a standalone company, or combining it with rival Dish Network's satellite-TV business, The Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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ISA said in June it was investigating suspicions that former Bezeq chairman Shaul Elovitch had meddled in the 2015 merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An animatronic leopard stopped Londoners in their tracks on Wednesday in Trafalgar Square, where it sat roaring as part of satellite TV channel Nat Geo Wild's Big Cat Week campaign.
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The combined company would have a library that includes HBO's hit "Game of Thrones" and channels like CNN, along with vast distribution reach through wireless and satellite TV services across the country.
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Though passengers on the Diamond Princess were stuck in their cabins during the quarantine, they were stuck with satellite TV, a selection of movies, activities for children, and food delivered on schedule.
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But many on Wall Street (including some of AT&T's own shareholders) felt that acquiring a traditional satellite TV company on the eve of the cord cutting revolution never entirely made sense.
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Streaming device makers have benefited alongside streaming service providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as consumers cut the cord to cable or satellite TV and shift to subscription-based streaming services.
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However, CBS said affiliate and subscription fees revenue which includes revenue from cable and satellite TV operators and online streaming providers, including its own All Access offering fell 12 percent to $1.01 billion.
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Sling TV's too-small gains were only one blip in an otherwise dismal quarter for Dish, which saw its worst net subscriber losses to date thanks to the loss of satellite TV customers.
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The firm estimated that by 2018, one in five American households will not subscribe to cable or satellite TV. That's no surprise because the availability of digital content keeps expanding for cord cutters.
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However, CBS said affiliate and subscription fees revenue — which includes revenue from cable and satellite TV operators and online streaming providers, including its own All Access offering — fell 12 percent to $1.01 billion.
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Though its business is satellite TV, the company has long possessed a large amount of wireless spectrum that it has done very little with: the treasure trove could be worth over $30 billion.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Luxembourg-based satellite TV business M22014 has successfully raised €2110m ($2312 million) of leveraged loans to refinance existing debt and pay a €22013m dividend to exiting minority shareholders, banking sources said.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV provider was ordered by a judge to pay $280 million in penalties to the federal government and four states in an eight-year-old lawsuit involving telemarketing robocalls.
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O) said on Friday that it would sell its DTH satellite TV operations to M7 Group for a total enterprise value of about 180 million euros ($206.41 million) on a U.S. GAAP basis.
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In another survey released by market research group GfK on Monday, people who watch video without a cable or satellite TV subscription prefer shows from streaming providers instead of from traditional TV networks.
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The league is lifting some of those restrictions this year, provided you already subscribe to a traditional cable or satellite TV package — and don't mind announcers who are rooting against your home team.
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On Thursday morning, Dish, the satellite TV provider, and Viacom announced that they had struck a multiyear agreement for Dish to continue to carry Viacom's bundle of television networks, averting a threatened blackout.
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The No. 313 U.S. satellite TV provider after DirecTV said net income attributable to the company in 2015 fell about 21 percent from a year earlier to $747.1 million, or $215.02 per share.
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But the writing is on the wall: Satellite TV is low on customer satisfaction, and delivery is cumbersome compared with the internet, meaning traditional media companies have little choice but to play ball.
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Overall, Dish's pay-TV business, which includes both satellite TV and Sling TV, lost 83,000 subscribers on a net basis during the first quarter, compared with the 94,000 it lost a year earlier.
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The news comes as Dish reports that in Q20183 2019 it lost 100,000 satellite TV subscribers, along with roughly 94,000 Sling TV subscribers — the first time Sling TV's subscribers have ever gone down.
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It advised Fox in 2120 on a $240 billion deal to sell European satellite TV firms to British Sky Broadcasting Group and on the corporate split of News Corp and Fox in 153.
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A merger would have given T-Mobile access to a trove of valuable spectrum that Dish has long held on to, but not yet put to use, along with a satellite TV business.
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The thinking at the time was AT&T could bundle DirecTV's satellite TV service with its wireless service and, in some areas of the U.S., its U-Verse high-speed home internet service.
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Americans have made clear that they much prefer the internet to cable TV; in the third quarter of this year, about a million people got rid of their cable and satellite TV service.
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As consumers are increasingly dropping their pay TV subscriptions, NBC's decision to provide its service free for cable and satellite TV customers makes the new offering less of a threat to those providers.
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Costing up to $500,000 each and featuring gold-plated domes, Italian marble and luxuries like wifi, air conditioning and satellite TV, many of the tombs at the Jardines del Humaya are like mini-mansions.
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Congress is handing traditional broadcasters such as CBS and ABC a surprise victory in a contentious, multimillion-dollar TV lobbying fight by letting key parts of a 31-year-old satellite TV law die.
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Bezeq, Israel's largest telecoms group, has long sought to merge its lucrative fixed-line division with its mobile telephone, satellite TV and internet service units as a means to save costs and offer bundles.
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That's 300 movies, 750 television shows, 2,400 songs, 18 channels of live satellite TV and even some games, available to stream directly on passengers' devices as well as on seatback screens on equipped aircraft.
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Here's how that shakes out: Cable and satellite TV customers will be able to stream events in their entirety live and on-demand if they miss a must-see moment when it originally airs.
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Satellite TV, a radio, bedside phone and Wi-Fi are on offer, and if William needs to lie down during, or after, the excitement, there is a reclining seat for partners in every room.
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The addition could make Apple TV a better streaming player for those who don't want to end their cable or satellite TV subscription, but would rather use Apple TV instead of a cable box.
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Dish reported its Sling TV numbers as a part of its Q226 2000 earnings, which also indicated that Sling TV is nowhere near making up for the subscriber loss from Dish's satellite TV service.
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The new rules will allow satellite TV company DirecTV to provide satellite internet services and let cable operator Cablevision SA provide 4G mobile telephone services, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Dish owns wireless airwaves AT&T could use as it readies itself for a 5G world, and its satellite-TV business could be merged with DirecTV to unlock billions of dollars in cost savings.
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When the Emmys aired on ABC last year, streamers had to authenticate using their cable or satellite TV credentials in order to watch the show live via ABC's website, iOS app, or Android app.
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Satellite TV antennas provide a primary source for pirating broadcast entertainment, news, and sports, while downloaded materials usually come by way of individuals who have internet access through either an institution or political office.
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But as more and more cord cutters are relying on all-purpose broadband connections and get the bulk of their small-screen entertainment via streaming options, satellite TV companies Dish and DirecTV are languishing.
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Driving the news: The comment period is closing this week for the DOJ's deal, which will see the wireless companies sell assets to satellite TV company Dish so it can enter the wireless market.
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Channels as streaming services: Just like you can add HBO, Showtime, Starz, and other premium channels to your cable or satellite TV service, so, too, can you add these channels to your streaming services.
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Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Dish Network (DISH) – The satellite TV provider beat estimates by 2400 cents a share, with quarterly earnings of 69 cents per share.
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Total U.S. households paying for cable or satellite TV could fall to 92 million in 2018, according to a UBS estimate, down 11 percent from 20163, when pay-TV households peaked at 103 million.
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The Israel Securities Authority is investigating Bezeq, focusing on allegations that former chairman Shaul Elovitch had meddled in the merger in 2015 between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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AT&T is going to offer a near-complete version of its usual cable and satellite TV bundle through the internet with more than 100 channels on offer, the company's CEO announced on Tuesday.
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The Arab countries have demanded Qatar curtail its support for the Muslim Brotherhood, shut down the pan-Arab al Jazeera satellite TV channel, close a Turkish military base and downgrade its relations with rival Iran.
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Satellite TV provider Sky New Zealand has removed Sky News Australia from its platform after the channel broadcast video apparently shot by the gunman who opened fire on two Christchurch mosques, leaving 245 people dead.
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The company said its pay-TV business, which includes both satellite TV and streaming service Sling TV, lost a net 83,000 subscribers during the first quarter, more than 94,000 subscribers it lost a year earlier.
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Qatar finances and hosts the pan-Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera which has won millions of viewers across the Arab world and beyond as well as the government-funded Doha Centre for Media Freedom.
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Dish Network Corp shares tumbled 11.2%, the most among S&P 500 companies, after the satellite TV service provider said it would buy broadcast satellite service assets from EchoStar Corp in an $800 million deal.
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The deal allows Dish to restore the two NFL channels on its satellite TV service, while also adding the channels to the Sling TV streaming service, as of the beginning of the 2016 regular season.
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Islam Behery, a popular satellite TV host known for challenging Islamic orthodoxy, has urged Muslims to think critically about some of the sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad that jihadists have used to justify violence.
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Bezeq, Israel's dominant telecoms operator, had long argued for an end to its "structural separation", in which it is forced to keep its mobile phone, fixed line, satellite TV and internet units as separate entities.
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The U.S. satellite TV provider has struggled to stop losses from cord-cutting as viewers move to cheaper online streaming services, and is working to diversify its business by eventually launching a 5G wireless network.
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DirecTV is the single most popular satellite TV provider, and DirectTV NOW is their no-dish-needed streaming service — and seriously, what sounds better than getting most everything DirecTV offers without the annoying satellite setup?
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Qatar finances and hosts the pan-Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera, which has won millions of viewers across the Arab world and beyond, as well as the government-funded Doha Centre for Media Freedom.
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In fact, Sling TV made headway with a number of cord cutters when it first debuted as being the only way to access ESPN's content without a subscription to a cable or satellite TV service.
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The ISA announced in June that it was investigating Bezeq, focusing on allegations that Elovitch, its controlling shareholder, had meddled in the merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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In short, because Roku isn't competing to sell you on its own store, it has effectively become the most flexible device in our move to replace cable and satellite TV with internet-centric OTT devices.
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Israel's financial news websites reported that investigators were focusing on a recent deal in which Bezeq bought control of its satellite TV unit YES from Eurocom and that other executives besides Elovitch had been questioned.
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AT&T is rolling out a new national TV service that lets customers connect Google Android-powered boxes directly to their broadband internet, eliminating the need for U-Verse fiber hookups or satellite TV dishes.
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The carriers argued that selling Sprint's prepaid business and some wireless spectrum to Dish Network Corp would help the satellite TV provider become a mobile carrier and preserve a fourth wireless company in the industry.
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"Dish is a struggling satellite TV firm with no experience running a mobile wireless business — and no current mobile wireless business," Paula Blizzard, California's deputy attorney general, said on a call with journalists this month.
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" Keep in mind: The plane didn't have satellite TV. When Bush landed on the ground: "The guy was driving really fast, and in a Humvee the center of gravity isn't as low as you think.
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Shows that used to be available under a single (if pricey) cable or satellite TV subscription, are now spread out across services like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Sling TV, HBO NOW, and others used by cord cutters.
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The company believes that, over time, it will be able to bring in enough new subscribers to its streaming offers to offset the declines related to cord cutting, which is impacting its satellite TV company DirectTV.
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While it's often said that everything is negotiable, there are some budget-busting bills that take precedent, such as cable, internet and TV, satellite TV and radio, home security, car insurance, newspaper subscriptions and gym memberships.
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JERUSALEM, May 26 (Reuters) - Bezeq Israel Telecom reported a steeper than expected 38 percent drop in quarterly profit, weighed down by higher salary and other expenses due to the consolidation of its satellite TV unit YES.
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Over-the-Top (or OTT) entrants such as YouTube, Netflix and Hulu deliver content via the internet in an inventive and affordable format, without requiring users to subscribe to a traditional cable or satellite TV service.
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Dish said its pay-TV business, comprising satellite TV and Sling TV, lost a net 31,000 subscribers during the second quarter, far less than analysts' estimate of a loss of 252,000, according to research firm FactSet.
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Second, TV stations have tapped a new vein of cash: retransmission fees, the payments they command from cable- and satellite-TV providers for their consent to retransmit their local broadcast-signal feeds to pay-TV subscribers.
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But while some view Dish's deal as a growth opportunity for the satellite TV company, one Wall Street research firm remains doubtful and downgraded the stock to sell in light of the recent M&A developments.
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Bloomberg is reporting that satellite TV provider Dish has reached an agreement with the two carriers that will see it acquire "prepaid businesses" (meaning Boost Mobile) for $1.5 billion and spectrum assets for another $3.5 billion.
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Unlike other online streaming services, which also cater to those who still subscribe traditional television, Pluto TV from the start has more narrowly focused on acquiring consumers who are abandoning their cable and satellite TV subscriptions.
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If Dish wants to get into the mobile phone business and Sprint wants to merge with someone, maybe Sprint can merge with Dish (the other major satellite TV player, DirectTV, is already owned by AT&T).
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Europe: 21st Century Fox is awaiting final approval from regulators to buy full stake in Sky, Europe's leading entertainment company serving 22 million network and satellite TV customers across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy.
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Cable and satellite TV distributors are increasingly negotiating hard with programmers, resisting demands for price increases to carry content at a time when viewers are being drawn to Netflix Inc, Amazon Prime and other online services.
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The low-cost airline, known for introducing satellite TV and free onboard Wi-Fi Internet, said it would partner with other venture capital firms, universities and organizations inside and outside Silicon Valley to scout for startups.
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That model, referred to over-the-top or OTT, has contributed to so-called cord-cutting, the trend of some television viewers bolting the traditional cable and satellite TV services and getting programming over the internet.
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Bezeq, as expected, reported on Thursday a tax-related writedown of 1.17 billion shekels in its satellite TV unit YES and an additional 951 million shekels from the decline in value of its cellphone operator Pelephone.
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As a result, cord cutters who believed they could save money over cable or satellite TV by switching to over-the-top streams are quickly finding out there's not as much savings as they previously thought.
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AT&T – AT&T Chief Operating Officer John Stankey told The Wall Street Journal that the DirecTV satellite TV unit is an important part of the company's strategy and that it doesn't plan to sell it.
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The show of continued momentum in the third quarter comes after the media conglomerate beat Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox to buy satellite TV broadcaster Sky for $40 billion in a sealed-bid auction in September.
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If you have subscribed to HBO through an AT&T-owned product such as satellite TV provider DirecTV or AT&T TV Now streaming video service, you are eligible to access HBO Max at no additional cost.
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CBS' search for scale comes as big media faces continued hikes to carriage fees, making it more difficult for them as viewers ditch cable and satellite TV subscriptions in favor of over-the-top and streaming options.
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That means that for many U.S. consumers, DirecTV Now may be able to fully replace the broadcast stations they would lose when cutting the cord with cable or satellite TV – unless they bought an antenna of course.
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The DOJ is pushing Deutsche Telekom to give Dish a sweeter deal to ensure the longtime satellite TV provider can be an effective fourth player in the wireless industry to AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile/Sprint.
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Abolishing the monopoly of the set top box by allowing apps on existing devices to run programming will introduce this same flexibility to the devices we use to watch cable and satellite TV. The world has changed.
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But there is an undeniable bathos to the fact that the biggest business in a realm once synonymous with human transcendence is providing viewers on Earth with umpty-seven channels of satellite TV. Now that is changing.
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Goncalves first joined AT&T through its 2015 acquisition of DirecTV, where he served as a longtime exec overseeing the satellite-TV operator's digital efforts, including its TV Everywhere and over-the-top platforms, among other roles.
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The 24-year-old says being exposed to Western pop culture through American media on satellite TV, international brands and merchandise, and the conservative norms of his small town, became the foundation and inspiration of his work.
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AT&T (T) is rolling out a new national TV service that lets customers connect Google Android-powered boxes directly to their broadband internet, eliminating the need for U-Verse fiber hookups or satellite TV dishes. (CNBC)
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Such an offering, known in the industry as a "skinny bundle," is a way of capturing younger viewers who are dropping traditional, expensive cable or satellite TV packages in favor of channels watchable on smartphones and tablets.
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Dish Network – The satellite TV provider reported a net increase in subscribers of about 251,25 for the fourth quarter compared to a year earlier, including 23,323 reactivations in the hurricane-hit Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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The company's satellite TV business loses hundreds of thousands of subscribers a year, Blockbuster shut down in 2013, and Dish's Sling TV, with about 2 million subscribers, is still a bit player in the video streaming market.
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What's more, it doesn't appear that cable or satellite TV providers make channel position decisions based on local politics; they don't lower Fox News' channel number in conservative towns or countries or raise it in liberal cities.
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To be specific, AT&T-owned DirecTV, best known as a satellite TV provider, has put together a streaming service of various networks which resembles a cable TV bundle and costs from $35 to $70 a month.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed in January opening the $20 billion cable and satellite TV set-top box market to new competitors and allow consumers to access multiple content providers from a single app or device.
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The company's customers include Sky TV in the UK, AT&T's DirecTV, Vodafone in Germany and China's state satellite TV. However, it is operating in a highly competitive environment as companies like Netflix, Hulu, Apple Inc and Amazon.
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Televisa narrowly avoided the imposition of tougher regulations for its pay TV arm in October, despite having a more than 70-percent share of satellite TV customers in Mexico and over 50 percent of the cable TV audience.
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Israel's securities regulator in 2017 said it was investigating suspicions that Elovitch, a family friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had meddled in the 2015 merger between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit Yes for personal financial gain.
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The Justice Department has argued that Turner, which is owned by Time Warner, owns "must-have" channels like CNN and TNT that the merged company would use as leverage in negotiations with other cable and satellite TV operators.
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Bezeq, as expected, reported for the quarter a tax-connected write-down of 1.17 billion shekels in its satellite TV unit YES and an additional 951 million shekels from the decline in value of its cellphone operator Pelephone.
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To address those concerns, T-Mobile and Sprint (S) committed to federal authorities this year to spin off some of their customers into a new fourth competitor to be managed by Dish Network (DISH), the satellite TV company.
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This time, say analysts, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are unhappy with what they consider the continued influence of Sheikh Hamad, including at Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite TV network they accuse of interfering in other countries' affairs.
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For consumers who didn't want traditional satellite TV, AT&T could offer DirecTV Now, a bundle of linear networks delivered over the internet, as a replacement product that would be nationally available and would run on wireless networks.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Bezeq Israel Telecom said on Sunday it may write down as much as 2.1 billion shekels ($599 million) in the second quarter from its mobile telephone and satellite TV units, sending its shares down nearly 7%.
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In recent years, AT&T has transformed itself from a phone operator into a major media player, selling satellite TV service to millions of people and owning a large chunk of Hollywood with plans for a forthcoming streaming service.
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AT&T, which owns satellite TV provider DirecTV, and consumer groups such as Public Knowledge said letting the statute expire would create an untenable risk for a wide swathe of rural households that could lose access to broadcast channels.
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Meanwhile, at the same time as Dish is appealing to cord cutters with Sling TV's expansion and the NFL additions, it's also now bringing the concept of skinny bundles back to its satellite TV service for the first time.
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He said the company was "in the process of formulating a long-term strategy" while hoping the government would end a forced structural separation that keeps its mobile phone, fixed line, satellite TV and internet units as separate entities.
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Nollen cited how the ESPN subscriber base declined by 3 percent in Disney's fiscal second quarter, which was greater than the 1 percent average subscribers loss of the major cable and satellite TV companies in the same time period.
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Before being ushered out of view in November, the prince was considered to be one of the world's richest men, with Kingdom Holding owning or having owned meaningful positions in satellite TV networks, as well as in News Corp.
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This month Stankey told Reuters that HBO Max will be available this spring to 10 million current AT&T customers in the United States — a mix of wireless, satellite TV, and some HBO Now subscribers — at no extra charge.
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The talks center on the Twentieth Century Fox movie and TV studio, international assets such as Fox's 39 percent holding in U.K. satellite TV provider Sky SKYAY -0.24% PLC and India's Star TV, along with some U.S. cable networks.
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The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) has been investigating Bezeq, focusing on allegations that former chairman Shaul Elovitch, who owns Eurocom, had meddled in the merger in 2015 between Bezeq and its satellite TV unit YES for personal financial gain.
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The DOJ and FCC approved the No. 20.10256 and No. 4 U.S. carriers to come together only after reaching a side deal with Dish Network, the satellite TV provider that wants to develop its own new national wireless platform.
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U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network said on Thursday that millions of its customers have lost access to Fox's local channels across 23 states and the District of Columbia, after the companies failed to agree to a new contract.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld on Tuesday a lower court ruling that wireless and satellite TV provider AT&T Inc's deal to buy content maker Time Warner for $85.4 billion was legal under antitrust law.
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Comcast expects its rivals at Disney and Fox will force them to bump their bid, likely by billions of dollars, in the coming one-day auction for British satellite TV provider Sky, according to people familiar with the matter.
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U.S. cable and satellite TV providers Altice USA Inc and Dish Network Corp have urged U.S. regulators not to approve the planned merger between T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp in its current form, according to filings published on Tuesday.
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The free version of the service will require users to log in through their cable and satellite TV provider, but they'll be able to stream live TV from NBCUniversal channels and watch current-season episodes of shows, the people said.
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For the past year or so, two services, Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, have dominated the conversation amongst cord cutters, people so fed up with paying through the nose for cable or satellite TV that they've said goodbye to all that.
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Bezeq, in a statement to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Sunday, said Eurocom owes it that sum after failing to reach certain milestones from a 2015 deal in which Bezeq bought control of satellite TV operator YES from Eurocom.
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U.S. officials decided to accept a deal to sell assets including Sprint's Boost Mobile brand to satellite TV provider Dish Network to resolve antitrust concerns, ending extensive talks on a merger the Justice Department is expected to approve this week.
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Xi's dream was to upgrade huge swathes of Africa to modern, digital satellite TV networks, that could broadcast a constellation of channels over long distances — so long, in fact, that a TV channel from Beijing could be beamed to African homes.
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MUMBAI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Indian satellite TV operator Dish TV India Ltd said on Friday it planned to merge with smaller rival Videocon d2h Ltd to create a new company with revenue of up to 59.16 billion rupees ($879.11 million).
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Certain industries can be better than others at responding to complaints: You should always try your luck with the credit card industry, airlines, grocers, internet service providers, hotels, banks, insurers, cell phone providers and satellite TV companies, according to Money Crashers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc, the largest U.S. TV provider, unveiled on Monday the pricing and launch date for DirecTV Now, which will stream television programming through the internet to win customers who shun traditional cable and satellite TV subscriptions.
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A Charter acquisition would signal that Verizon has a drastically different strategic vision than rival AT&T, which has sought to diversify away from the wireless business through its deal for Time Warner and earlier acquisition of satellite-TV provider DirecTV.
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While that acquisition helped AT&T sustain its dividend, the underlying assets have deteriorated as millions of customers left satellite TV. Many are heading for cheaper online options and conventional cable providers, which, unlike AT&T, offer high-speed broadband.
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Read more: A merger between satellite-TV giants Dish and DirecTV could save around $2 billion a year, and Wall Street analysts say the deal could finally happenAT&T's priority should be shrinking and simplifying its portfolio, the analysts say.
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By teaming with Dish and pairing a version of its Fi service with the satellite TV operator's already ample spectrum assets (which could be further improved following the divestiture sales), Google could be part of a formidable and competitive wireless option.
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Buying Time Warner is the final step in what AT&T calls a "vertically integrated" conglomerate: One part of the company would produce "Game of Thrones," Batman movies and CNN, and then make them available on satellite TV, smartphones and tablets.
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The Justice Department, which is suing to block the $85 billion deal, argued that AT&T, with its nationwide wireless and satellite TV business, could use Time Warner's content as a "weapon" by raising the licensing fees those channels command.
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Unlike AT&T — which paid nearly $215 billion for the satellite TV service DirecTV and is trying to acquire Time Warner for $23 billion — Verizon never struck splashy acquisitions, aside from those of Yahoo and AOL (combined purchase price: $22 billion).
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AT&T has spent a combined $134 billion on satellite TV provider DirecTV and media company Time Warner to take on Netflix Inc and craft a digital and TV advertising strategy that would make use of the combined companies' assets.
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Sources had told me that Comcast would also use its Peacock unveiling to tout an international news service created by NBC News and the news division of Sky, the satellite TV company Comcast bought in 2018, but that didn't happen.
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AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Monday expressed confidence in winning government approval for what would be the first deal to combine a major U.S. media company with a wireless network, satellite TV distributor, and high-speed Internet service provider.
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Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami's imprisonment was widely seen by rights groups as an act of hypocrisy by the tiny Gulf Arab monarchy, which has supported Arab uprisings abroad and spent millions on its satellite TV network Al Jazeera.
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With Netflix and Amazon pulling viewers away from traditional TV subscriptions, and Comcast, AT&T and Verizon continuing to grow through consolidation, Dish's satellite TV business, which still has more than 2300 million subscribers, is viewed as an increasingly isolated asset.
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As it transforms into a media and advertising company, AT&T has publicized it has 170 million direct customer relationships through its wireless phones and satellite TV business DirecTV, and the anonymized data can help advertisers better target their ads.
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AT&T will continue to provide DIRECTV's premium satellite TV entertainment service, which includes its industry-leading lineup of live and on-demand programming choices and optional add-ons such as HBO, Showtime and its exclusive NFL Sunday Ticket Package.
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The owner of the most-watched U.S. television network said affiliate and subscription fees revenue – which includes revenue from cable and satellite TV operators and from online streaming providers, including its own All Access offering – rose 3.763 percent in the first quarter.
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In other words, the cable/satellite TV universe that has been the backbone of the TV industry is going to see the life gradually siphoned out of it as the shift to streaming — and an influx of revenue heading to that — happens.
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The baseball team, which owns 20 percent of Yes, has also been talking to other potential partners, including cable and satellite TV provider Altice USA and RedBird Capital, about buying the remaining 80 percent stake from Walt Disney Co, the report said.
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To offset losses in its core satellite-TV business as viewers gravitate toward online video services such as Netflix, the company last year launched a cheaper Sling TV online streaming service that offers a slim bundle of channels, including live content from ESPN.
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Profit on a consolidated basis, which includes Bharti's Africa operations and its Indian satellite TV business among others, fell 13 percent to 3.67 billion rupees ($57.01 million) in the three months to June 30, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. (bit.
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If you don't have a cable or satellite TV service and intend to watch via an Internet stream on your computer, phone or other device, our own Peter Kafka has gathered up everything you need to know about doing that right here.
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AT&T on Saturday officially announced plans to buy Time Warner for more than $85 billion, or $107.50 per share, in a cash-and-stock deal, bringing together a wireless, broadband and satellite TV giant with a content powerhouse in movies and television.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded significant asset sales in order to approve the $85.4 billion deal, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, and asked AT&T to sell CNN-parent Turner Broadcasting or its DirecTV satellite TV operation in discussions on Monday.
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NFL content is also returning to subscribers of satellite TV service Dish, which owns Sling TV. A dispute between Dish and the NFL over license fees meant that 7 million Dish subscribers have been locked out of NFL content since mid-June.
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Israel's television market is dominated by cable company HOT and satellite TV firm YES, whose extensive offerings can cost over 300 shekels a month, and analysts say Partner will need to grab up to six percent of the TV market to break even.
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But the unceasing expression of pro-media control viewpoints through a multitude of Internet news sites, cable and satellite TV outlets, and social media, just demonstrates that market changes have rendered broadcast ownership controls unnecessary and no longer in the public interest.
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DirecTV typically sells about 2 million Sunday Ticket subscriptions annually, according to people familiar with the matter, but customers have to be DirecTV subscribers to buy the product (with some exceptions, such as living in an apartment building that isn't allowed satellite TV).
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Friday's approval by the Justice Department and five state attorneys general comes after Sprint and T-Mobile agreed to conditions that would set up satellite-TV provider Dish as a fourth wireless company, so the number of major U.S. providers remains at four.
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The owner of the most-watched U.S. television network said affiliate and subscription fees revenue which includes revenue from cable and satellite TV operators and from online streaming providers, including its own All Access offering rose 3.763 percent in the first quarter.
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As major product launches in recent years go, it has to be near the bottom of the barrel, especially in light of having two competitors (one of which happens to be owned by their direct competitor for satellite TV) that function much better.
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Previously, it believed there would only be 230 million cord cutters in the U.S. In addition, the so-called "cord-nevers" – meaning those consumers who never choose to subscribe to traditional cable or satellite TV in the first place – is growing, too.
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The idea is to take the hassle out of finding accommodation by offering a 'RedDoorz approved' experience — including free WiFi, satellite TV, "quality" linen and more — at any hotel, so customers can focus on important factors like location and price rather than reliability.
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Watching this makes me feel both nostalgic and triggered, reminding me of days spent in my pastor's rumpus room, watching PTL on satellite TV, wondering if I was righteous enough to be saved from the carnage about to befall the earth in Armageddon.
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The telecommunications giant agreed on Saturday to buy Time Warner, the home of HBO and CNN, for about $85.4 billion, creating a new colossus capable of both producing content and distributing it to millions with wireless phones, broadband subscriptions and satellite TV connections.
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This added some 38 million satellite TV subscribers to the empire, giving the company more clout to negotiate with content providers — companies like CBS, Fox and even Time Warner, which produce the television shows and movies that AT&T funnels to customers' screens.
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If DirecTV customers switch to the new AT&T video service over time, AT&T may be further compelled to sell off its satellite TV assets — a divestiture championed by hedge fund Elliott Management last year but has been resisted by AT&T.
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Meanwhile, DirecTV Now, the company's "over-the-top" streaming video service that was launched to lure back viewers who had dropped more expensive satellite TV services, added only 290,15.33 net subscribers in the quarter, much lower than the 215.3,245.74 it added last year.
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AT&T has spent a combined $134 billion to buy satellite TV provider DirecTV and media company Time Warner to take on Netflix Inc and then craft a digital and TV advertising strategy that would make use of the combined companies' assets.
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The two biggest satellite TV providers — Dish Network and DirecTV — may be looking to merge, according to Dish chairman Charlie Ergen, who called a potential merger with its biggest satellite rival "inevitable" on the company's Q4 earnings call, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The surge in these services are driven by people wanting cheaper alternatives to cable or satellite TV. But the prices of programming licensing deals continue to soar and companies are passing along the prices to customers, which is leading to price hikes.
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While keeping an eye on the Monday night game (it's always a pleasant surprise when satellite TV works), I prepare for my football podcast, which I'll record tomorrow, by gathering statistics and watching tape from some of the games I missed on Sunday.
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America's Justice Department approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, but only after the mobile-telecoms companies agreed to sell a range of assets to Dish, a satellite-TV company, that will bolster its wireless services and expand competition in the market.
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The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded significant asset sales to approve the $85.4 billion deal, sources told Reuters on Wednesday, and has asked AT&T to sell CNN-parent Turner Broadcasting or its DirecTV satellite TV operation in discussions on Monday.
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I can imagine that AT&T eventually plans on using its big marketing and customer relationship resources to sell things like HBO Now to its customers, just like it has started doing with DirecTV, the satellite TV service it bought two years ago.
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While you're at it, consider costs and coverage options for other home services like internet, cable or satellite TV, said Seeber — who has seen clients buy a home only to sell it quickly because they couldn't get decent cellphone reception or high-speed internet.
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Apple TV is adding a new feature that will make it easier for users to sign on to their "TV Everywhere" applications – you know, the ones that require you authenticate with your cable or satellite TV provider in order to watch the channel's content.
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The number of U.S. households without a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription that instead receive broadcast stations using a digital antenna has jumped by nearly 50 percent over the past 8 years to reach 16 million homes, according to a new report from Nielsen.
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Comcast plans to kick off a bidding war on Wednesday with Disney to buy some Twenty-First Century Fox assets, which include cable networks, 39 percent of British satellite TV provider Sky Plc and Indian media conglomerate Star, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Editorial AT&T's $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner would transform it from a landline, wireless and satellite TV company into one of the most important media gatekeepers in the country, giving it a strong financial incentive to use its programming to hammer competitors.
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AT&T has long argued that buying Time Warner won't reduce competition because AT&T's mobile network, satellite TV service DirecTV and high-speed internet solutions don't directly compete with any of Time Warner's content businesses, which include HBO, CNN and the Warner Bros. studio.
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If you're a cord cutter yourself (or a "cord never," the industry term for people who have never subscribed to cable or satellite TV) you might be surprised that the number of people still forking over monthly dues to Big Cable is so high.
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The networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, say in their complaint that Locast is eating into the licensing fees they get from pay-television companies like the cable operator Comcast and the satellite-TV provider Dish that carry the networks' programs and sports events.
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The remaining passengers were asked to quarantine on board, with the cruise company offering free internet access, switching on additional satellite TV channels, and offering those in rooms without any windows a chance to get a breath of fresh air on deck now and then.
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MEDIA. Fox Corporation recently hired multiple shops to lobby on a host of issues, including the expiration of the Satellite TV Extension and Localism Act Reauthorization, retransmission consent, online privacy, spectrum, media ownership, the First Amendment, sports betting, children's educational TV programming and advertising.
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AT&T and Dish Network are not in discussions over a deal due to regulatory issues, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported the wireless carrier was considering parting ways with its satellite TV division DirecTV.
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Two big new streaming services, both owned by satellite TV services, have made a splash in the last couple of years, and, when you cut through all the hype about them, they are pretty much just old-style, linear TV services delivered via the net.
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The proposal, originally put forward under FCC Commissioner Tom Wheeler, at first sought to create an open-standard to make it possible for third parties to build their own set-top boxes ready to receive and display content from third-party cable and satellite TV services.
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The firm also posted a bearish report and launched a public website on the second-largest satellite TV operator in the U.S. "Dish is losing its main [spectrum] asset in three years and the two buyers know this," Kerrisdale chief investment officer Sahm Adrangi told CNBC.
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The negotiations center on the 20th Century Fox movie and TV studio, international assets such as Fox's 39 percent holding in U.K. satellite TV provider Sky PLC and India's Star TV, along with some U.S. cable networks; Fox News and the Fox broadcast network are not included.
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The DoJ have reportedly told AT&T executives that to get the merger through they would have to sell off assets: either Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting division, including CNN, which Mr Trump has repeatedly attacked as "fake news", or DirecTV, the wireless giant's satellite-TV business.
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If an HBO subscription is included in your cable or satellite TV package, you also have access to its streaming service, HBO Go. This essentially just gives you more access to where you can watch Game of Thrones — from your computer's web browser to your iPhone.
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The lawsuit was filed in U.S. district court in New York by CBS Corp, Comcast Corp's NBCUniversal Media, Fox Corporation's Fox Television Stations and Walt Disney Co's ABC against Sports Fans Coalition NY (SFCNY) and its founder, David Goodfriend, a former executive at satellite TV provider Dish.
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New research released this week from the content delivery network Akamai takes a closer look at how hackers are abusing weaknesses in a cryptographic protocol to commandeer millions of ordinary connected devices—routers, cable modems, satellite TV equipment, and DVRs—and then coordinate them to mount attacks.
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With a vast array of on-demand TV services from British broadcasters and services like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, I have little reason to pay for cable or satellite TV providers like Sky, Virgin Media, or BT unless I really want to watch live sports.
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Pay-TV companies know the future of watching TV and movies is via streaming services rather than cable and satellite TV. And traditional players are hoping they can catch up and even leapfrog the tech giants because they own something Silicon Valley companies don't — the broadband pipes.
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"That's a question I think they asked themselves and moved them to try to buy the rest of Sky," said Michael Nathanson, an analyst at MoffettNathanson, referring to a pending $14.3 billion deal for 21st Century Fox to take full control of the British satellite TV giant.
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The troubles at Fox News could leak into other parts of the 21st Century Fox empire: Wendy Walsh, who accused Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment, said she would appear before Ofcom, the British regulator assessing 21st Century Fox's attempt to take over Sky, the satellite TV giant.
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My kids, 10 and 7, spend hours reading books every day; we don't have cable or satellite TV except in our home office for me and my husband, who is also a journalist and a researcher, to very occasionally watch breaking news on Arabic regional channels.
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Many rarely venture outside the factory, preferring to spend their free time tending to Chinese vegetable gardens, playing ping-pong and watching Chinese satellite TV. Yet there are compelling economic reasons that so many Chinese people leave their homes to make new lives here in Africa.
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It separately said it may have to write down an additional 1.2 billion shekels for the cancellation of a deferred tax asset at satellite TV operator Yes after Israel's securities regulator told Bezeq that conditions for the tax benefit stemming from Bezeq's merger with Yes were not fulfilled.
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While not necessarily a feature people first think about when choosing a streaming TV provider, the investment in customer service could ultimately help Hulu better convince existing cable or satellite TV subscribers to cut the cord, and it could help retain users who face issues with Hulu's service.
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The live stream will be available on both HBO GO and HBO NOW (HBO GO isn on-demand streaming service similar to a Netflix subscription, while HBO NOW is more similar to DirecTV in that it's a streaming service that requires a cable or satellite TV package with HBO).
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The lost subscriptions, which the company said should return as the islands get back on their feet, reduced third-quarter profit at the U.S. satellite TV service provider to 2736 cents per share, below the average analyst estimates of 2000 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
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Before today, AT&T's holdings were mostly confined to distributing information, either through wireline internet, wireless phone service, or broadcast satellite TV. Now, it will own a major stake in some of the largest companies producing that content, with major implications for anyone trying to stream video online.
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The expected approval, which would put the deal over a major hurdle, will come with conditions and a consent decree that will require the carriers to sell assets including the prepaid brand Boost Mobile to satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp , people briefed on the matter told Reuters.
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Shoukry told Sabah the only way the crisis would be resolved was if Qatar fulfilled the demands, which include curtailing its support for the Muslim Brotherhood, shutting down the pan-Arab al Jazeera satellite TV channel, closing a Turkish military base and downgrading its relations with rival Iran.
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Oil rig workers typically work two weeks out of every four in floating accommodations that meet hotel standards, where they enjoy saunas, gyms, maid and laundry services and satellite TV. Their platforms, each the size of one or two football fields, are frequently stable enough to play ping pong.
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Fiennes, who is white, will play the late "King of Pop" in an apparently real-life story for Britain's satellite TV channel Sky Arts about a road trip across the United States the singer is said to have taken in 2001 with movie stars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando.
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In the AT&T-Time Warner merger, the government had argued that the combined entity, which brings together AT&T's wireless and satellite TV subscribers and Time Warner's creative properties, would demand higher fees from cable providers for "must have" content and consumers would then bear higher subscription prices.
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AT&T has long-maintained that buying Time Warner is what's called a vertical merger, meaning AT&T's mobile network, satellite TV service DirecTV and high-speed internet solutions don't directly compete with any of Time Warner's content businesses, which include HBO, CNN and the Warner Bros. studio.
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While his last job was running Pandora for a year and change before the music-streaming service was acquired by Sirius XM, his more relevant experience may be working for Dish Network and helping that satellite TV company launch Sling TV — the first all-digital pay TV business.
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Later she told the Kremlin-funded satellite TV station RT that she was not concerned that she had been banned from the U.S. "I don't want to go back there in the near future, because if you are a Russian in the United States, you have to worry," she said.
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HBO claims that "DISH is making it extremely difficult, responding to our good faith attempts with unreasonable terms," blaming the satellite TV service for pulling the channels as a hardball negotiating tactic and recommending customers look elsewhere (like the unbundled HBO Now service) for their HBO fix in the meantime.
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According to Digital TV Research the number of pay TV users in sub-Saharan Africa - a region of more than a billion people - is expected to jump by three quarters between 2017 and 2023 to nearly 41 million, with more than half of that signing up for satellite TV offerings.
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In a 221-minute call with analysts, Lachlan Murdoch, the executive chairman, and James Murdoch, the chief executive officer, steered attention toward climbing subscriber fees for the company's cable channels and their high expectations that regulators would approve the company's $220 billion buyout of Sky, the British satellite TV giant.
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Once the property was up and running, the day-to-day involved handling incoming inquiries and bookings as we were navigating our own travel logistics and dealing with unexpected issues as they came up — the satellite TV service went out for a week, for one, while we were trekking in Patagonia.
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INLT makes software that helps companies simplify the process of importing goods into the U.S. AT&T (T) Chief Operating Officer John Stankey told the Wall Street Journal that the DirecTV satellite TV unit is an important part of the company's strategy and that it doesn't plan to sell it.
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Driving the news: Under a settlement with the Justice Department, Sprint and T-Mobile struck a wide-ranging deal with Dish that will give the satellite TV provider spectrum, Sprint's prepaid business, a national roaming agreement and other components to create what regulators and Dish say will be a fourth national wireless competitor.
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The company launched a renewed television product based on Comcast's X1 video platform in January after losing market share at the hands of Telus' Optik TV. Shaw said its consumer unit added almost 13,000 cable subscribers and 1.6753,000 satellite TV customers in the period, the first net TV growth since fiscal 2010.
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The analyst firm is now projecting the number of those ditching their subscriptions to cable and satellite TV will climb 32.8 percent this year to reach 33 million people – a figure that's higher than the 22 percent growth rate and 27.1 million cord cutters it had estimated around this time last year.
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New troubles for Fox News arose on Thursday as a lawsuit accused it of gender discrimination and one of the women who have accused Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment said she would appear before the British regulatory group that is assessing 21st Century Fox's attempted takeover of Sky, the satellite TV giant.
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Days after outlining how it plans to rise from out of nowhere as a major wireless provider in the United States and launch 5G service by the end of next year, Dish today reported its second quarter earnings — and they're another reminder of exactly why the satellite TV provider is morphing into a mobile carrier.
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DirecTV Now Is Just Another Failed Attempt at Streaming Live TVWatching Turner & Hooch and crying, because I'd completely forgotten the dog dies, I came to a…Read more ReadThe actor tweeted his annoyance with the satellite TV service this afternoon after he found himself unable to watch the NFL games he so richly deserves.
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The company has already benefited by bringing sports programming to over-the-top viewers who no longer subscribe to traditional television, like cable or satellite TV. In December 2016, CBS announced a multi-year streaming deal with the NFL that gave it the rights to broadcast every NFL game on CBS via the CBS All Access service.
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And here's why that matters: Deals like this give cable giants control over not just how television shows and movies are made but also how the content is distributed to millions of people — whether on their mobile phones, through broadband subscriptions, or on cable and satellite TV. I'm not quite sure we've all processed what we saw yesterday.
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Under the proposed scheme, the nation's third and fourth-largest wireless carriers would be forced to sell off wireless spectrum and prepaid businesses (such as Boost Mobile) to Dish Network, the Colorado-based satellite TV provider, effectively making it the country's fourth-largest wireless carrier, even though it would rely entirely on T-Mobile's own network.
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While Hopkins said a majority of its users still have a cable or satellite TV service, the company is looking ahead and hopes to re-convert people who may have quit paid TV. It is only based in the U.S. for now, but Hopkins didn't rule out additional countries in the next three to five years.
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Alexa can already control your Fire TV to help you launch Netflix or find your favorite show, among other things, but today Amazon is announcing a new tool for developers that will allow any cable and satellite TV company, streaming service or other content provider to add the same sort of voice control to their apps, as well.
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If you're paying your own utility and phone bills, you've probably figured out that it's not really worth it to sign up for a cable or satellite TV package, which averages about $230 per month, excluding internet access, when you can stream shows for a fraction of the price from Amazon, Netflix, Sling TV, and other streaming services.
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Clerics lost the battle to stop the introduction of television in the 1960s, and for years were hostile to satellite TV. But MbS can depend on his father King Salman, who is highly respected among conservative and senior clerics, to help him to implement his "Vision 2030" designed to prepare the kingdom's economy and its society for a future less dependent on oil.
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In December, Liberty Global said it would sell its DTH satellite TV operations, which serves four eastern European markets, to M7 Group for a total enterprise value of about 180 million euros ($206.41 million) The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2019 and add to Sunrise's equity free cash flow per share from the first year after that.
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TiVo already sells boxes that compete directly with the ones offered by cable, telcos and satellite TV. And a flood of new "boxless" digital apps is reshaping the market even more radically, letting viewers subscribe to channels like HBO and Showtime, or buy live games from the NHL or MLB, without any package TV subscription or set top box at all.
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YouTube's latest move, announced Tuesday, highlights how far it has come as well as the challenges in trying to replace cable and satellite TV. The company said it planned to introduce a new subscription service called YouTube TV in the next "few months," offering more than 40 channels including all four major networks, Disney Channel, FX and ESPN, for $35 a month.
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The two companies will be required to provide at least 20,000 cell sites and hundreds of retail locations to Dish, and the satellite TV provider will also get unfettered access to T-Mobile's network for seven years as it works to build out a mobile network of its own using the newly acquired assets and spectrum that Dish has held on to for years.
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And if you're more of a halftime show kind of person, Justin Timberlake will be headlining that this year (although given the somewhat chilly reception of his newest album, hopefully he'll be sticking to some older and safer classics.) If you pay for cable or satellite TV or have an over-the-air antenna hooked up, then you're already set for watching the big game.
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How the judge rules in the case has the potential to shape the fast-changing business of video, as consumers increasing turn to streaming services instead of traditional cable TV. AT&T, a nationwide satellite TV and wireless provider, argues that pairing up with a major content company is necessary to compete against the reach and resources of tech giants like Netflix and Amazon.
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Along with the long-awaited introduction of Apple's TV and movie-streaming service, the company also introduced a new Apple TV app for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. The updated design is meant to make it easier to find content, no matter the source — whether that's Apple's new TV channels service, Apple TV+, your iTunes library, cable or satellite TV or other streaming services, like Amazon Prime Video or Hulu.
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Specifically, the BOLT OTA 53K Ultra High Definition capable set-top box is designed to work with almost any HD antenna and TV set, as a way for customers to ditch expensive cable or satellite TV without losing the ability to watch and record live TV. The device is similar to the 1TB BOLT VOX, as it also offers 4 tuners and supports storing 150 hours of HD programming.
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It's not unheard of: In the U.K., satellite TV giant Sky owned and operated its own betting operating for about 15 years; it still owned a minority stake in Sky Bet until this month, when it was sold for $4.7 billion A middle ground some companies are contemplating: Providing the tech and marketing to help an existing, Las Vegas-based sports book reach an audience on their phones.
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"In about thirteen years they went from absolutely nothing to this empire that included a $129 million a year budget, the first satellite TV network—a year before ESPN—which reached 14 million homes, and an amusement park that was the third most-visited attraction in the country," explains John Wigger, author of the recently published PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire.
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