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With more than 21 million subscribers -- twice as many as its next-biggest rival, Time Warner Cable -- Comcast has been negotiating lower program fees with networks.
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According to the Texas Tribune, Perry is asking the federal government for a block grant -- which would give Texas "the flexibility" to amplify four key areas: personal responsibility, reduced dependence on the government, lower program costs and improved coordination of health care.
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Lower programming costs benefited ABC, where ad sales increased.
Disney Channel experienced solid international ad growth, while ABC benefitted from lower programming costs.
Wall Street has been watching subscriber fees closely since Comcast acquired AT&T Broadband last November, along with the leverage to seek lower programming fees.
The chief executive of Comcast, Brian L. Roberts, is using his company's 30percentt share of the cable market to negotiate lower programming fees.
Disney's local TV stations and ABC broadcast network saw a 37 percent spike in operating income largely because of lower programming costs and higher ad revenue.
In fact the most significant contributors to the reported rise in profits are a 1% increase in advertising revenues (£15m), lower programming costs because of no football World Cup or equivalent tournament in 2011 (£29m) and company cost savings (£20m).
But that decline was at least partly offset by lower programming costs, higher ratings at the Fox network and the success in India of the Hindi version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire".
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