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The Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday night that it plans to vote at its July 13 public meeting to approve the $16.9 billion acquisition of Adelphia Communications by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast, ending a review that has lingered at the agency for nearly 400 days.
The approval is expected to come with several conditions related to sports programming, but the agency is not planning to impose Internet network-neutrality mandates on either Comcast or Time Warner, according to an FCC official.
If FCC chairman Kevin Martin has three votes, approval of the Adelphia deal is expected. But if for some reason he lacks a majority, Martin always has the option of withdrawing the Adelphia merger from the meeting agenda.
The commission's lengthy review of the Adelphia merger has been one of the longest involving cable systems in recent FCC history.
Under a merger proposal supported by Martin, Comcast and Time Warner would be barred from charging noncompetitive rates in an effort to effectively withhold affiliated regional sports networks from competing multichannel-video-programming distributors, such as EchoStar Communications and DirecTV, an FCC official said.
Any dispute over terms and conditions would be resolved through compulsory arbitration, an FCC official said, noting that the condition was akin to the one the agency applied to News Corp. in January 2004 when it needed the commission's approval to take a controlling interest in DirecTV.
The News-DirecTV arbitration requirement expires in 2010. Consistent with that approach, the FCC is expected to sunset the Adelphia merger arbitration conditions in six years, an FCC official said.
A pay TV lobbyist said Martin's proposal would not break up exclusive sports-programming contracts that Time Warner and Comcast have with entities in which they do not have financial interests. An FCC official confirmed that statement.
Adelphia currently has about 5 million subscribers. Time Warner Cable and Comcast intend to divide Adelphia's assets in a series of cable-system trades designed to bolster their regional footprints in several large markets, including Los Angeles, Dallas and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Time Warner Cable would emerge with a net gain of 3.5 million subscribers and Comcast with about 1.8 million. Those figures were announced last year, when Adelphia had about 5.4 million subscribers.
FCC rules require cable operators to sell satellite-delivered cable networks in which they have financial interests to pay TV distributors. The rules generally do not apply if cable-affiliated programmers are distributed terrestrially, such as via microwave systems or fiber-optic lines.
In a setback for the two direct-broadcast satellite providers, Martin's merger conditions would allow Comcast to continue to withhold Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia from EchoStar and DirecTV, mainly because the FCC had ruled in program-access complaints brought by DirecTV and EchoStar in 1998 and 1999, respectively, that Comcast was not required to sell them the channel. The U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the FCC in the case brought by EchoStar in June 2002.
Comcast SportsNet is the pay TV home of the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers, the National Basketball Association's 76ers and Major League Baseball's Phillies. Comcast also owns the Flyers and 76ers. DirecTV and EchoStar have argued that they can't compete effectively with Comcast's cable properties in Philadelphia without the sports channel.
In another Martin proposal, the Adelphia merger would be approved without a commitment from Time Warner and Comcast to abide by the FCC's August 2005 four broadband principles, also called Internet network-neutrality principles, an FCC official said.
Last October, the FCC refused to grant mergers between SBC Communications and AT&T and between Verizon Communications and MCI unless the acquiring companies agreed to allow the commission to enforce the network-neutrality rules against them for a two-year period.
At the time of the phone-company mergers, the agency was evenly divided 2-2 between Republicans and Democrats. On June 1, Robert McDowell arrived at the FCC to give the GOP a 3-2 majority for the first time in Martin's tenure as chairman.
The Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday night that it plans to vote at its July 13 public meeting to approve the $16.9 billion acquisition of Adelphia Communications by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast, ending a review that has lingered at the agency for nearly 400 days.
The approval is expected to come with several conditions related to sports programming, but the agency is not planning to impose Internet network-neutrality mandates on either Comcast or Time Warner, according to an FCC official.
If FCC chairman Kevin Martin has three votes, approval of the Adelphia deal is expected. But if for some reason he lacks a majority, Martin always has the option of withdrawing the Adelphia merger from the meeting agenda.
The commission's lengthy review of the Adelphia merger has been one of the longest involving cable systems in recent FCC history.
Under a merger proposal supported by Martin, Comcast and Time Warner would be barred from charging noncompetitive rates in an effort to effectively withhold affiliated regional sports networks from competing multichannel-video-programming distributors, such as EchoStar Communications and DirecTV, an FCC official said.
Any dispute over terms and conditions would be resolved through compulsory arbitration, an FCC official said, noting that the condition was akin to the one the agency applied to News Corp. in January 2004 when it needed the commission's approval to take a controlling interest in DirecTV.
The News-DirecTV arbitration requirement expires in 2010. Consistent with that approach, the FCC is expected to sunset the Adelphia merger arbitration conditions in six years, an FCC official said.
A pay TV lobbyist said Martin's proposal would not break up exclusive sports-programming contracts that Time Warner and Comcast have with entities in which they do not have financial interests. An FCC official confirmed that statement.
Adelphia currently has about 5 million subscribers. Time Warner Cable and Comcast intend to divide Adelphia's assets in a series of cable-system trades designed to bolster their regional footprints in several large markets, including Los Angeles, Dallas and Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Time Warner Cable would emerge with a net gain of 3.5 million subscribers and Comcast with about 1.8 million. Those figures were announced last year, when Adelphia had about 5.4 million subscribers.
FCC rules require cable operators to sell satellite-delivered cable networks in which they have financial interests to pay TV distributors. The rules generally do not apply if cable-affiliated programmers are distributed terrestrially, such as via microwave systems or fiber-optic lines.
In a setback for the two direct-broadcast satellite providers, Martin's merger conditions would allow Comcast to continue to withhold Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia from EchoStar and DirecTV, mainly because the FCC had ruled in program-access complaints brought by DirecTV and EchoStar in 1998 and 1999, respectively, that Comcast was not required to sell them the channel. The U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the FCC in the case brought by EchoStar in June 2002.
Comcast SportsNet is the pay TV home of the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers, the National Basketball Association's 76ers and Major League Baseball's Phillies. Comcast also owns the Flyers and 76ers. DirecTV and EchoStar have argued that they can't compete effectively with Comcast's cable properties in Philadelphia without the sports channel.
In another Martin proposal, the Adelphia merger would be approved without a commitment from Time Warner and Comcast to abide by the FCC's August 2005 four broadband principles, also called Internet network-neutrality principles, an FCC official said.
Last October, the FCC refused to grant mergers between SBC Communications and AT&T and between Verizon Communications and MCI unless the acquiring companies agreed to allow the commission to enforce the network-neutrality rules against them for a two-year period.
At the time of the phone-company mergers, the agency was evenly divided 2-2 between Republicans and Democrats. On June 1, Robert McDowell arrived at the FCC to give the GOP a 3-2 majority for the first time in Martin's tenure as chairman.
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That is what I have to explain to customers all the time. They want it free with no ads
The ads are boring and repetitive...same ad over and over...bring back 1970s ads..might not be as big an issueThat is what I have to explain to customers all the time. They want it free with no ads
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Looks like dish is Bankrupt. Filling tomorrow Tuesday June 30th
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Can't remember where or who I saw predict this.
It wouldn't surprise me to see Elon soon own all of DISH / Echostar in the future.
For your viewing pleasure...
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AT&T, T-Mobile Are Reportedly Ready To Boot Boost Mobile If SpaceX Buys It
Semafor’s Rohan Goswami said that AT&T and T-Mobile have discussed removing Boost Mobile from their networks if SpaceX acquires the EchoStar unit, creating a potential obstacle to Elon Musk’s push to become a major U.S. wireless carrier.
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For your viewing pleasure...
AT&T, T-Mobile Are Reportedly Ready To Boot Boost Mobile If SpaceX Buys It
Semafor’s Rohan Goswami said that AT&T and T-Mobile have discussed removing Boost Mobile from their networks if SpaceX acquires the EchoStar unit, creating a potential obstacle to Elon Musk’s push to become a major U.S. wireless carrier.
That's ok, I'm sure Verizon will be happy to take them.
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Comcast is the first to report, with a massive 274,000 loss in video subscribers.
In the 3Q of 2016, Comcast had 21.42 million video subscribers and was the #1 provider, now at 10.39 million and is the #3 Provider, YTTV is #2 ( who also surpassed DirecTV-8 Million and Dish-under 5 Million), Charter/Spectrum is #1.
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In the 3Q of 2016, Comcast had 21.42 million video subscribers and was the #1 provider, now at 10.39 million and is the #3 Provider, YTTV is #2 ( who also surpassed DirecTV-8 Million and Dish-under 5 Million), Charter/Spectrum is #1.
Comcast Just Lost 274,000 TV Customers & 144,000 Internet Customers In Just Three Months | Cord Cutters News
Comcast Corporation reported its third-quarter 2026 results on October 22, showing continued erosion in its domestic residential broadband internet and video customer bases as competitive pressures intensified across the connectivity market. The company recorded a net loss of 144,000 domestic...
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After a strange reboot last night in the middle of viewing, this morning several more reboots and about a half an hour download.
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Time for another AWESOME video from BoredAtWork!
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Direct YouTube Link - Sony MDR-3R Walkman USB-C Headphones
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Time for another AWESOME video from the TWIT Network!
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6kVDC3xcUVE
Direct YouTube Link - Earth's New Mini Moon: Meet Asteroid 2026 QQ8
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Direct YouTube Link - Earth's New Mini Moon: Meet Asteroid 2026 QQ8
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Videos like this can make you appreciate the things we take for granted.
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a2cgQidHQJI
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