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  • NewsClips - March 9, 2010
    Stay tuned for more fee disputes threatening local television stations on cable TV lineups. Broadcasters hurt by declining ad revenue are demanding more fees from cable and other subscription TV providers to carry the stations. The providers are resisting, and in the latest tussle, Walt Disney Co. pulled the signal of its ABC station in New York from Cablevision Systems Corp. in the hours leading to Sunday’s Oscars telecast
    Posted: Mar 9, 2010
  • NewsClips - March 8, 2010
    Jim Mast, of rural Middleburg, educates his five children at home and owns a small construction business. Big tasks in and of themselves, they become even bigger without reliable, high-speed Internet access. And Mast is living in a broadband black hole. Mast made a request for broadband service to his phone company two years ago, and has yet to hear anything.
    Posted: Mar 8, 2010
  • NewsClips - March 5, 2010
    Stimulus tax dollars have been wasted on building broadband to areas with existing networks, according to House Republicans. As a result, stimulus spending on extending broadband access to underserved areas has been wasteful and failed to meet its mandate, according to the GOP. Senior Republicans made the argument at an oversight hearing Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet.
    Posted: Mar 5, 2010
  • NewsClips - March 4, 2010
    Pay-per-download Internet may sweep the industry sooner than you think. At the AT&T investor conference Tuesday, Chief Executive Randall Stephenson -- in addition to cooling expectations for Apple's 3G-enabled iPad -- addressed a more long-term idea that's unpopular with many tech enthusiasts. Yep, metered Internet access.
    Posted: Mar 4, 2010
  • NewsClips - March 3, 2010
    With many cable operators being family-run, it can truly be said that the sins of the fathers are now being visited on the sons. Walt Disney's fee dispute with Cablevision Systems over transmission of the ABC network to three million New York-area homes has its roots in a 17-year-old industry arrangement.
    Posted: Mar 3, 2010
  • NewsClips - March 2, 2010
    The Central Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce has a new jingle, will soon have a new home and has a strong membership base. Some of those members were honored during the chamber’s annual meeting and awards ceremony, held Thursday at Norman’s Watson Inn, Watsontown. Bruce Smith, membership and marketing director for the chamber, said the event attracted 145 members.
    Posted: Mar 2, 2010
  • NewsClips - March 1, 2010
    Just over a quarter of American adults now read news on their cell phones, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. The survey results being released by the group Monday offer another sign of how people are changing they way they get information. Technology has been reshaping the news business and the way consumers relate to it for more than a decade.
    Posted: Mar 1, 2010
  • NewsClips - February 26, 2010
    Top executives at Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal, at a House hearing on the cable giant's proposed $13.75 billion deal, faced muted resistance as lawmakers focused their questioning on employee job security, more diverse television programming and the deal's possible impact on the online video market.
    Posted: Feb 26, 2010
  • NewsClips - February 25, 2010
    TiVo Inc., pioneer of digital video recorders, may introduce a set-top box next week that provides Web search results alongside TV listings, said Tony Wible, an analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott. The product may let subscribers locate programs at sites including Google Inc.’s YouTube and Amazon.com Inc., and on streaming services such as Netflix Inc., said Wible, who is based in Philadelphia.
    Posted: Feb 25, 2010
  • NewsClips - February 24, 2010
    Cablevision Systems Corp., the New York cable operator with more than 3 million subscribers, is unveiling a service that will let its customers seamlessly move content from their computers to their television in real time. “We are putting an end to the need for families to huddle around their laptops or PCs to watch content together.
    Posted: Feb 24, 2010