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Comcast Commits to Buying Time Warner Cable

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Back in November of 2013, the rumor started circulating that cable giant Comcast was going to try  to buy Time Warner Cable (TWC).  This was news because Comcast, in addition to owning NBC Universal, is the nation’s largest cable provider … Continue reading →

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Media News That Ought Not To Surprise You

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Netflix set to surpass HBO in USA paid subscriptions You can watch any of their programs any time and any where on any device for about $8 a month.   And they let you shotgun their original series from day … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

How are News Corp. and the Fox Group doing post corporate split? Better than expected.  Bigger is increasingly not necessarily better. Is there more than one standard of beauty out there? Increasingly, it looks like the answer is “Yes.”  British … Continue reading →

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Media News Roundup

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

USB ports replace cigarette lighters in Hyundai cars As if we needed any more proof that mobile media devices are addictive! iPhones are more important than cigarettes! FAA backs letting people use mobile media during take-off and landing And they … Continue reading →

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Time Warner Cable / CBS Resolve Month-Long Retransmission Dispute

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Time Warner Cable and CBS Inc. have finally resolved their month-long retransmission battle that will bring back CBS broadcast and Showtime back to cable subscribers in New York City, Los Angeles and the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. This means that subscribers … Continue reading →

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Was SyFy’s Sharknado really the big deal that Twitter made it out to be?

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

That would be a definite NO. Some of you may have noticed last week when the SyFy Channel showed the over-the-top silly original movie that Twitter absolutely exploded with talk about the movie.  Everyone from Lost/Prometheus/Star Trek scribe Damon Lindelof … Continue reading →

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Are mandatory cable channel bundles good or bad for consumers?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

There’s been a lot of talk lately as to whether some form of a la carte pricing on cable would be good or bad for consumers.  The idea here is that we get big bundles of channels from our cable … Continue reading →

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