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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Q Inks RCN Carriage Deal
RCN Corp. will begin carrying gay- and lesbian-themed Q Television Network’s programming in September, Q said Wednesday.
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Comcast Signs Broadband-Content Deal with ABC, Disney
On the eve of the political conventions, Comcast Corp. signed a major broadband-content-distribution deal with ABC for ABC News product, as w
