#cable-tv — Public Fediverse posts
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Ted Turner’s Lasting Impact on Global Television and News
📰 Original title: Ted Turner didn’t just revolutionize television − he changed the way we see our world
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Ted Turner, CNN Founder and Cable TV Innovator, Passes Away at 87
📰 Original title: CNN founder Ted Turner dies aged 87
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Sad see Ted Turner passed away I read his book pioneer in cable advertising and of course WCW - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/ted-turner-cnn-founder-dies-87-rcna4931 #wcw #wrestling #cabletv
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The recent efforts I've put into dodging unannounced raindrops and storms and threats of storms have put me in front of the boob tube / #CableTV fare for interrim #entertainment --and it's what I've noticed which prompts this post.
Today is a case of Disney affiliate Freeform showing both Avatar and Avatar Way of Water back to back while HBO is binge-showing Dust Bunny. What all of these have in common is Sigourney Weaver, an actress I deemed to be legendary until I saw Dust Bunny, which is utter rubbish. It's a premise that has been done and re-done to death in both short and long form productions. I no longer think highly of Weaver any more.
HBO is also repeating Barbie to death, or, rather, is trying to. My reaction to that is quite different than the Weaver movies and the reason is that it's a movie chock full crammed with proverbial Easter Eggs, and each time I watch it I find nuggets I didn't see in the previous dozen times I've watched it, and there are scenes I want to watch again to make sure I saw what I thought I saw, especially in the "I'm Just Ken" segment. I'm just now noticing some gay stuff going on in the back line of dancers. Check out that beach battle scene where a pair of guys on the right of Gosling are actually dancing some spoof version of the Tango- Square Dance mash-up. A helluva sight, that.
Now I just gave YOU reasons to watch it again--but do it with the captioning on this time. Easter eggs are to be found in there, too. I'd mention one more thing with the background dancers in "I'm Just Ken" but I don't know the proper way to put this. Am I looking at fill-in cis women or am I looking at trans-men, exactly? Well, the safe way out that I'm going to take is refer to those dancers as Pat. You know, the SNL gender-ambiguous character of yore. Pat. They're Pats.
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🚨 BREAKING: The #FCC heroically rescues Netgear's #routers from the brink of oblivion, because... 🤔🤷♂️ reasons? Clearly, #logic and #transparency were too busy binge-watching cable TV to bother showing up. 📺🔍
https://www.theverge.com/tech/911888/netgear-router-ban-conditional-approval #Rescue #Netgear #CableTV #HackerNews #ngated -
AMC Networks Changes Corporate Name To AMC Global Media
#News #AMCGlobalMedia #AMCNetworks #CableTV #KristinDolan #SVOD #Televisionhttps://deadline.com/2026/04/amc-networks-changes-name-global-media-1236785012/
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Joseph J. Collins Dies: Pioneering Cable Exec And Former HBO President Was 81
#News #Obituaries #Cable #CableTV #Executives #Josephjcollinshttps://deadline.com/2026/04/joseph-j-collins-dies-cable-tv-executive-1236783086/
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Predictions are cable prices across the country will increase with consolidation in media/TV markets, and service providers (DirecTV) agree!
FCC approves the merger of local television giants Nexstar and Tegna, the same day that two lawsuits trying to block the deal were announced.
The $6.2B deal will create a company that owns 265 television stations in 44 states and the District of Columbia, most of them local affiliates of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC.
The Lawsuit argues the merger has run afoul of federal laws designed to protect against monopolies, and was filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia. https://apnews.com/article/nextstar-tegna-television-regulation-lawsuit-a6fa29ed77fec7fbd4461a4988dd6730 #TV #Cable #Television #Nexstar #Tegna #FCC #Media #Lawsuit #MediaMerger #AntiTrust #ABC #CBS #NBC #FOX #DirecTV #CableTV #Monopolies
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Hardware I returned to Xfinity this afternoon. The Arris telephony modem was about 20 years old. The cable box / DVT was not much younger.
We dropped cable TV, VOIP, and stopped renting modems (bought my own Arris S33v3) very recently, saving hundreds of dollars per month on the bill.
#Xfinity #cable #cabletv #vintage #networking #vintagehardware #docsis #telephony #modem #modems
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Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV
#HackerNews #ChannelSurfer #YouTube #CableTV #Streaming #Innovation #TechNews
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Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube Like It's Cable TV
#HackerNews #ChannelSurfer #YouTube #CableTV #Streaming #Innovation #TechTrends
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The surprising Oregon town where cable television was born four years before Portland got TV
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Court TV Acquired By Dan Abrams’ Studio Law & Crime
#Legal #News #CableTV #CourtTV #DanAbrams #EWScripps #LawCrime #Multicastnetworkhttps://deadline.com/2026/02/court-tv-acquired-by-dan-abrams-law-and-crime-1236713288/
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Cable news channels are the epitome of propaganda, with endless repetition of the same hysterical content and the same right-wing tropes. At their worst, they can become weapons of mass brain washing.
"[R]ecent research points to another (potentially complementary) explanation for the decline of materialist voting: Americans’ at-home entertainment options have gotten too good.
At least, this is my takeaway from “The Business of the Culture War,” a new paper from a pair of economics graduate students at MIT and Harvard University, Shakked Noy and Akaash Rao, respectively.
Their study’s basic story is simple: As the television business grew more competitive, news broadcasts began emphasizing culture war controversies, fueling a realignment of American politics in the process.
Noy and Rao note that, from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s, the three big networks — CBS, NBC, and ABC — dominated American television. Although cable TV existed, it had yet to fully penetrate American households and alternate channels were limited. Amid such scant competition, the major networks didn’t worry too much about maximizing the entertainment value of their news broadcasts. Each had a nearly captive audience, who could be force-fed briefings on current affairs most evenings. The networks therefore viewed their news divisions as vehicles for earning prestige as much as revenue. And this led them to favor “hard” economic coverage over “soft” cultural stories.
As coaxial cables brought an ever-expanding array of channels into American homes, however, the TV business started to change. By 1997, three 24-hour cable news networks were competing for viewers’ attention — against not merely each other, but upward of 40 other stations. Critically, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC couldn’t afford to treat their news broadcasts as “loss leaders” like the networks had; news was their entire business."
https://www.vox.com/politics/475325/cable-news-culture-war-social-media-trump
#Media #TV #Politics #CableTV #News #Propaganda #Ideology #Disinformation
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Growing up outside of #NYC in the '70's, pre #CableTV, I'm thankful for independant channels and syndication. Not counting UHF, we only had 7 channels:
NEW YORK CITY
[2] WCBS-TV (CBS)
[4] WNBC-TV (NBC)
[5] WNEW-TV (Ind.)
[7] WABC-TV (ABC)
[9] WOR-TV (Ind.)
[11] WPIX-TV (Ind.)
[13] WNDT-TV (NET)Channel 13 was, IIRC, PBS, CFPB(i.e. Electric Company, Sesame Street, Zoom, Dr. Who, and all that icky adult stuff).
But for me, the independent channels(5, 9, and 11) was a abundant cultural banquet. It exposed me ~40 years of "classic" cartoons(non-stop Warner Bros, Looney Tunes(even the "bad" ones!!), B-movie #sci-fi & Japanese monster movies (#Kaiju), along with weird shit I didn't understand like the Uncle Floyd Show, and Joe Franklin.
Once cable came along, some diversity was lost. Even with 100 more channels, it became harder to stumble upon a 3 Stooges film, some random western, or "Tarantula"! & "The Amazing Collosal Man" for the 500th time.
The terrain got larger; but, the land became slightly more barren. YMMV -
All I wanted to do was make some #GlutenFree cinnamon swirl muffins. I kindly went down to show the box to my father as an offer. (He's mostly deaf, and only bothers wearing his hearing aids when he's going out, or when one of my sibs is over.)
And what happens? I find he's having #CableTV troubles, but of course he hasn't bothered hitting the call button to get me. I play with the cable TV setup for 45 minutes, and nothing changes. I don't have cable at my end of the building — everything I watch is YouTube or pirated — so I call Sis1, since it looks like calling customer support is in the cards, and that's beyond my remit.
She comes over and spends an hour on the phone with someone, unplugging and replugging cables (which I did), and resetting the cable box (which I did), and using her phone to show the service rep what she was doing (which is not something I'd ever be involved with). No success.
So anyway, my sister has left, and I've rewired the sets. He can get antenna TV on the right-hand TV, and Prime on the Roku attached to the left-hand TV, so he'll be able to watch NFL games tonight and tomorrow, though I'll have to turn Prime on for him, since twenty explanations and several posters over the years have failed to get him to understand Input.
Three hours later, I finally get to have some muffins.
After school Monday, my sister will make more calls and see what's what, and if she can get cable TV working here (internet via Verizon Fios is still fine), or if Dad needs a new cable box, or if YouTube TV will be a better deal.
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Alphabet Is Preparing Its Death Blow to Cable TV as We Know It – The Motley Fool
Alphabet Is Preparing Its Death Blow to Cable TV as We Know It
December 15, 2025 — 12:05 pm EST,
Written by James Brumley for The Motley Fool->Key Points
- Alphabet’s YouTube TV will soon be rolling out several different genres of skinny cable-television bundles.
- This is a strategic shift that studios and cable channels have been especially hoping to avoid.
- Alphabet can afford to offer these bundles because it doesn’t necessarily need them to turn a direct profit.
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The U.S. cable television industry was already hanging by a thread. Technology giant Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) may be about to completely snip it.
This is the likely outcome of a move that Alphabet’s cable-television alternative — YouTube TV — recently announced it would soon be making. Although details are still scant, the company plainly said, “Early next year, we’ll launch YouTube TV Plans, bringing more choice and flexibility to our subscribers with over 10 genre-specific packages.”
And yes, all-important sports is one of those genres. This sports option will include programming from at least Fox, Comcast‘s NBC, and Walt Disney‘s ESPN — brands that are also trying to build stand-alone sports entertainment services outside of cable television with much of the same programming content that YouTube TV’s sports-centric bundle will offer. They’ll now be competing with their own distribution partner.
It’s the cable companies, however, that have the most to worry about here. The launch of YouTube TV’s new offerings may well mark the beginning of the end of the cable business as we know it today.
Already vulnerable
It’s certainly no secret that the country’s cable television business has been on the ropes for over a decade now. Just since early 2018, industry stalwarts Xfinity, Spectrum, and Altice have shed 16.6 million paying customers. That’s a loss of nearly 40% of its total customer base during that seven-year stretch, matching the pace of attrition other names in the business have also experienced.
Data sources: Comcast, Optimum Communications, Charter Communications. Chart by author.
Blame the rise of streaming, of course — it’s just cheaper. Then again, so is cable-alternative YouTube TV. Although still relatively more expensive than a wide lineup of multiple streaming services, its starting price point of $82.99 per month is also considerably less than the nation’s average cable bill after local taxes and fees are added to the mix. That’s how YouTube TV has amassed on the order of 10 million customers just since its limited launch in 2017, followed by its nationwide availability as of 2019.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Alphabet Is Preparing Its Death Blow to Cable TV as We Know It | Nasdaq
Tags: Alphabet, Cable Television, Cable TV, Cheaper, GOOG, Lost 40 per cent customers, NASDAQ, Sports, Streaming, Television, The Motley Fool, YouTube TV#Alphabet #CableTelevision #CableTV #Cheaper #GOOG #Lost40PerCentCustomers #NASDAQ #Sports #Streaming #Television #TheMotleyFool #YouTubeTV
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Warner Bros Discovery Battle Hinges On Value Of “CrapCo,” But Are CNN & Cable Networks Really Worth Just A Buck A Share?
#News #CableTV #Mergersandacquisitions #Netflix #NetflixWB #Paramount #PayTV #Warnerbrosdiscovery #Wbdhttps://deadline.com/2025/12/warner-bros-discovery-cable-tv-paramount-netflix-1236642460/
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New post: A look at Canada’s animation-related cable TV and streaming services (2025 edition)
https://www.diversetechgeek.com/canadas-animation-related-cable-tv-streaming-services-2025-edition/
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Larry Ellison Met With Trump To Discuss Which CNN Reporters They Plan To Fire
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NBC Sports Network Lighting Back Up On YouTube TV Before Rollout On Other Pay-TV Systems
#News #CableTV #Comcast #NBCSports #NBCSportsNetwork #NBCUniversal #Versanthttps://deadline.com/2025/11/nbc-sports-network-returning-youtube-tv-1236616224/
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Versant Designates USA Sports As Brand For Sports Programming On Golf Channel And USA Network
#News #CableTV #Comcast #NBCUniversal #Sports #Versanthttps://deadline.com/2025/11/versant-usa-sports-brand-golf-channel-nbcuniversal-1236615024/
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Channel Surfing Nostalgia Machine - As any generation of people get older, they tend to look back fondly on their form... - https://hackaday.com/2025/10/17/channel-surfing-nostalgia-machine/ #raspberrypi #commercials #television #nostalgia #cabletv #retro
