Sentence examples for persuade the cable from inspiring English sources

Microsoft has tried for more than a decade, with little success, to persuade the cable industry to let it develop operating system software and applications for set-top boxes.

He persuaded the cable companies to pay for a public-service channel via a levy based on the number of their subscribers.

Mr. Layne also persuaded the cable company Comcast, which was trying to establish a presence in New England, to sign on as the main sponsor of the theater's musical series that starts in March.

Vince Cable could not persuade the last government to adopt such a law after Kraft's takeover of Cadbury.

Aim to persuade the audience.

The Administration won Russia's coöperation on sanctions after it cancelled a missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and replaced it with a sea-based system; it won China's, as the cables show, after persuading the Saudis to guarantee the Chinese an undiminished supply of oil.

Last year, the National Basketball Association and Time Warner failed to persuade cable operators to carry a planned sports cable channel on expanded basic, with N.B.A. games at its core.

As a testament to its influence, the program was at the center of one the biggest media showdowns of recent years, as Disney was able to stand up to a threat by AOL Time Warner to remove ABC stations from several of its large cable systems largely by persuaded the public to demand that "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" not be taken away from them.

MTV also aims to persuade cable operators to expand the distribution of the second MTV channel, MTV2, by using its promotional power to tout the advantages of the operators' high-speed Internet connections.

Most of Time Warner Cable's systems have refused to carry it, a fact that has hobbled CNNfn executives as they tried to persuade unaffiliated cable companies to carry it.

To compete, Rentrak must persuade more cable companies to give it household viewing information, as Comcast, Cablevision, Charter and Insight are starting to do.