Traditional cable television and telephone service is quickly fading away. They both saw vibrant growth for decades. In the 1990s, they hit their peak, starting to sell extra phone lines, so customers ...

Investors and customers are wrestling with the dilemma faced by the cable television industry. Cable TV is struggling on two fronts, television and broadband. This is a long-term trend that has ...

In an ironic twist, cable TV and Internet provider Comcast has announced that it, too, will sell a bundle of video-streaming services for a discounted price. The announcement comes as Comcast has been ...

Look for cable plans to shrink going forward, and for channels to be sold on a more a la carte basis. The highly competitive nature of the streaming business will make life tough for Disney. Its ...

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Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery are reevaluating their linear cable strategy, and sports is at the heart of it, even if the leagues and sports owners are looking ahead to streaming. By Alex Weprin ...

RF Micro Devices unveiled two new CATV control components, in conjunction with the SCTE Cable-TEC Expo, in Orlando, FL. The new components include the RFSA2654, a 75-ohm broadband digital step ...

Fiber uses fiber-optic lines that transmit data at the speed of light, whereas cable uses coaxial cables, which are traditionally used for TV service. Fiber typically offers faster upload and download ...

NEW YORK — Before Altice USA and its Optimum brand of cable TV services, there was Cablevision Systems, known across Westchester County and Long Island as a MVPD powerhouse that was also parent to the ...

MAHANOY CITY, Pa. (WHTM) — You might link the advent of cable television with the formation of cable networks like ESPN and Nickelodeon in the 1970’s. By the time those networks signed on, though, ...