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SBC Gains 100K DSL/DBS Subs

SBC Communications Inc. added 100,000 digital-subscriber-line/Dish Network satellite customers in the second quarter, along with 315,000 DSL-

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Viacom Declares Quarterly Dividend

Viacom Inc.’s board of directors is in a giving mood.

The media giant said Wednesday that it has declared a regular

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DirecTV’s Play Call: Up to 100 HD NFL Games

DirecTV Inc. said Wednesday that it will offer up to 100 HDTV broadcasts of National Football League games as part of its 2004 “NFL Sunday

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Crawford Enlists Its Turnkey Satellite Services

Crawford Communications Inc.’s Crawford Satellite Services unit said Wednesday that it has signed a multiyear agreement with the U.S. Depar

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Cox to Buy DR’s TCA Cable Stake

Cox Communications Inc. said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday that DR Partners, which owns a 25% stake in its TCA Cab

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McCourt to Give Up RCN CEO Post

RCN Corp. chairman and CEO David McCourt said he would relinquish the CEO role at the bankrupt overbuilder and would lead a search to find a

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Better Weather for Sprint PCS Vision Users

Sprint PCS Vision users now have access to enhanced content from The Weather Channel Interactive, the two parties announced Wednesday.

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Liberty, Comcast Go Swapping

Liberty Media Corp. bought back 120.3 million shares of its class-A common stock from Comcast Corp. in exchange for its interests in two cabl

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Solid 2Q for Rogers

Second-quarter operating profit was up 20.4% at Rogers Communications Inc., to $445.789 million from $370.206 million in the prior-year quart

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Acacia Acquires LodgeNet Patent

Acacia Research Corp. said Wednesday that its Acacia Technologies Group has acquired U.S. Patent No. 6,226,677 from LodgeNet Entertainment Co

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