The commission votes Wednesday to end the "terrestrial loophole" that allowed cable operators to refuse local sports programming access to competitors. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News ...

Intelsat, Ltd., the world’s leading provider of commercial satellite services, announced that OlympuSAT, a multimedia company, turnkey service provider and distributor, signed a multi-year, ...

Basic cable networks have been facing the same audience fragmentation that broadcast networks have been facing since the 1980s. In 2009, ten basic cable networks reported percent double-digit audience ...

WASHINGTON — Soaring TV programming costs — combined with a slowly shrinking base of video subscribers — could drive a new wave of cable operator mergers, according to a panel of Wall Street analysts.

The cable company and the broadcaster fail to reach a pact on fees, but subscribers in New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas aren't losing the television channel for now. Joan E. Solsman was CNET's senior ...

The FCC has released new rules that will allow cable operators to encrypt all their basic channels. However, the new rule comes with a major exception: Any encrypted basic channels must be also made ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Netflix's Internet video service is about to join the programming lineup of three small cable-TV providers in the U.S., a breakthrough that acknowledges the growing popularity of ...

Comcast, ViacomCBS, Discovery and Disney have achieved a narrow victory on a preliminary injunction motion concerning the Maine's novel a? la carte mandate. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal ...

Smithsonian Networks and Time Warner Cable today announced that they have completed a distribution deal to make Time Warner Cable (TWC) its newest affiliate. The deal includes having the Smithsonian ...