Sentence examples for a cable service from inspiring English sources

That was on my mind when I saw a report last weekend on TV Japan, a cable service in the United States.

Mr. Waxman said the case also presented the court with an opportunity to clarify whether broadband Internet service is a cable service or a telecommunications service.

A cable service delivered via the Internet would most likely have to compete on quality — say, superior features like more space for digital video recording — rather than on price.

The Liberty Media Corporation, the cable television company run by John C. Malone, has agreed to buy part of TeleColumbus, a cable service provider that is owned by Deutsche Bank and has about 1.4 million customers.

Mr. Diller said that he intended to stitch all the pieces together to form the USA Travel Channel, a cable service that will let viewers buy trips to destinations it features.

It noted that a federal appeals court in 2001 threw out an F.C.C. rule that prohibited one company from owning both a cable service and newspaper in the same market.

Cablevision agreed on Sunday to pay more than $1.36 billion for Bresnan Communications, a cable services operator whose owners include the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners, people briefed on the matter said.

The Disney Channel, starting as a 16-hour-a-day cable service, had its premiere in April 1983.

"A good cable company is better than a bad D.S.L. company, and a good D.S.L. service better than a bad cable service," Mr. Burstein said.

WASHINGTON — As Intel tries something audacious — the creation of a virtual cable service that would sell a bundle of television channels to subscribers over the Internet — it is running up against a multibillion-dollar barricade.

It said that with the Xbox service, it was delivering a traditional cable service that customers were already paying for through a different device that could serve as a substitute to the cable box.