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Because Comcast delivers cable to 22.3 million households - one-fifth of all the households with TVs in the United States - its carriage decisions influence smaller cable providers.
So the two sides have settled on a wink-and-nod approach by raising the fees that cable companies will pay to deliver cable networks owned by broadcasters — in CBS's case, Showtime, which offers movies and original shows like "Weeds" and "Californication" — or by obtaining promises from cable companies to buy television advertising.
At the same time, can TCI deliver cable channels as part of the package?
The number of U.S. households watching streaming TV services – those that deliver cable TV-like programming over the internet – has grown a remarkable 58% over last year, according to new data from comScore.
Nor is it possible to magically deliver cable's most popular content for a fraction of the cost of cable.
The company specializes in delivering unregulated cable content to apartment buildings (unlike a franchised cable company, this private company can deliver any combination of channels it wants to a wired site, essentially putting McCaw into the content business) and has crews dedicated to laying fiber-optic cable.
But thanks to new ways of delivering programming, cable operators are hoping to widen the gap between themselves and satellite TV providers The cable industry has spent a lot of money upgrading its networks–nearly $95 billion since 1996 and as a result, it's able to offer a lot more than just extra channels.
In addition to an on-screen interactive program guide, the Microsoft technology includes behind-the-scenes software that cable companies can use to deliver digital cable services, such as video-on-demand and digital video recording.
Tele-Communications, the nation's No. 2 cable operator, now part of AT&T, has pledged to deliver seven million cable subscribers over two years.
In America, "HD capable" refers to HDTVs with built-in tuners that can decode terrestrial HDTV signals; while a "digital cable ready" HDTV set contains a decoder for HDTV signals delivered via cable.All of this gobbledegook helps to explain HDTV's dirty little secret: that around 80% of HDTV sets are not receiving HDTV broadcasts.
For a monthly fee, cable TV subscribers could receive traditional local broadcast stations, broadcast "superstations" delivered to cable systems by satellite from distant cities, premium movie services, and a wide and growing array of specialized cable-only channels.
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