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Frontier prepares to take on Time Warner
Local cable subscribers can access a multitude of channels at the push of a button, and they have on-demand access to many popular shows and movies. But many customers still complain about the service: they have picture quality problems, their feed cuts out too often, they’re forced to pay for channels they don’t want, and […]
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Comcast ends New York merger review
Last week, Comcast publicly and definitively ended its bid to swallow up Time Warner Cable. Part of the merger process involved regulatory reviews in the states, mostly around the transfer of Time Warner’s franchise agreements to Comcast. In New York, the company had petitioned the state Public Service Commission to clear the way for the […]
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Comcast and TWC respond to merger comments
Over the past few months, state regulators have been flooded with public comments for and against — mostly against — the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Staff from state agencies have submitted comments, too — which are basically recommendations regarding the deal. Yesterday, Comcast and Time Warner Cable submitted their joint response to the comments, […]
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Changing channels
Time Warner Cable is not taking away PBS. Earlier this month, the cable company informed its Western New York subscribers via a letter that it’s changing how it carries public, educational, and government access television stations. These aren’t public stations in the PBS sense, even though some subscribers clearly believe they are. They’re better known […]
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Creating the electronic public square
Television in the making: Station staffers Josh Bloodworth (left) and Rick Osborne sweat the small stuff during a live broadcast. CarvinEison and LaToya Campbell chat during a moment of downtime on the set. “Okay, people, let’s focus. How much time do we have left?” CarvinEison’s voice fills the studio’s tiny control room. “One minute,” comes […]
