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Cable Cos Winning Broadband War: Beating Telcos 2-to-1 For New Subs

2008-11-07 11:00:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...cable industry continues to dominate the phone industry in the race to sign up broadband subscribers Most public phone and cable companies have reported Q3 results, and so far, cable companies signed up 64% of new broadband subscribers last quarter, while telcos signed up 36%. (See chart below for details Why are cable companies -- led by...
 
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Four Questions For The Cable Guys

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2008-05-19 11:01:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...cable industry converges on New Orleans this week for its annual trade show . The industry is in decent shape -- by cable industry standards. But growth is slowing, and the future is a bit blurry, as competition heats up from phone companies and Internet-based TV/video services; now the cable guys are trying to figure out what to do about...
 
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Cable Broadband Growth Beats Telcos 3-To-1 In Q2

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2008-08-06 10:23:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...cable and phone companies have reported their Q2 results, and the trend we spotted last week -- cable companies fiercely beating out telcos for new broadband subscribers -- is even stronger today Add in today's results, including Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Qwest (Q), and cable has signed up 74% of the 744,000 net new high-speed Internet...
 
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Kagan: Ad Recession Hits Cable TV Next Year

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2008-08-12 14:30:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...cable TV. But that's about to change, according to research firm SNL Kagan Kagan says cable TV advertising will have grown 10.7% by the end of 2008, a very healthy increase in a down year. Next year, however, the bottom drops out: ad revenues will grow a mere 4.7 Kagan doesn't offer much explanation for the drop, besides the obvious. Analyst...
 
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Indiana Jones, Iron Man Push Viacom's Q2, But Ad Sales Sputter At Cable Networks

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2008-07-29 16:34:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...cable TV affiliate revenue is growing at a double-digit pace But underlying this is that ad sales on Viacom's TV networks is looking really bad and got worse during the quarter. Pullbacks from in retail, automotive and consumer goods are casting doubt on an otherwise strong upfront. The upfront TV ad deals are committments, not actual orders,...
 
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Telcos Routed: DSL Customers Fleeing To Cable Broadband

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2008-08-04 06:00:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...cable industry is sucking their DSL subscribers away As cable and telcos report Q2 results, one trend is clear: Cable companies are taking the majority of new broadband subscribers. So far, 69% of 476,000 total Q2 net broadband subscriber additions have gone to two cable companies -- Comcast (CMCSA) and Cablevision (CVC). And just 31% have...
 
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Why Video On Demand Is Still Cable's Game To Lose

2008-09-05 09:46:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...cable industry New this week: A new on-demand video streaming service from Amazon.com , which is an improvement over its previous "Unbox" video store. Nice selection, and great competition for Apple's (AAPL) iTunes store. But in our brief testing, the video quality leaves a lot to be desired. And Amazon (AMZN) still hasn't made it easy enough...
 
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Cable Finally Whacks DSL In Battle For Broadband Subscribers

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2008-05-15 19:15:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...cable. But now that the discounts are largely gone, DSL is on the wane . Leichtman Research Group added up the numbers for Q1 and the 19 top cable companies added 1.19 million subscribers in the quarter, compared to 1.01 million for the phone companies in the same period Since the third quarter of 2004, DSL had been adding customers at a...
 
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