MCN Newswire: Comcast/TWC Extend Merger End Date To August; Sub Losses Improve At Time Warner Cable; Licensing Deal Brings Showtime Brand To Canada

Top Stories - January 30, 2015 Comcast/TWC Extend Merger End Date to August Comcast and Time Warner Cable have agreed to extend the end date of their merger agreement by six months to Aug. 12, 2015. more Sub Losses Improve At Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable, in perhaps its last quarterly earnings release before it is acquired by Comcast, reported its best quarterly subscriber results in seven years, losing just 38,000 basic video customers, well ahead of analysts estimates. more Licensing Deal Brings Showtime Brand to Canada Premium network Showtime is headed to the Great White North.Under a new a long-term content licensing and trademark agreement between network parent CBS Corp. and Canada's Bell Media, the pay TV service's brand will appear over blocks of content available outside the United States. more Cablevision Sues Verizon Over WiFi Ads Just days after Cablevision Systems introduced Freewheel, a WiFi-only voice, text and data product for smartphones, the operator said it has filed a suit against Verizon Communications that calls for the telco to put a halt to ads that, the MSO alleges, make "false, misleading and deceptive advertising" claims about WiFi service. claims against the WiFi service. claims about WiFi service. more Wheeler Mum on Open-Internet Order Outlines Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler today declined to expound on what would or would not be in the FCC's Open Internet order, saying "nothing has been decided." more CNN's Alisyn Camerota Joins As Wonder Women Host Alisyn Camerota, the co-host of CNN's New Day morning program, has joined as a co-host the program honoring the 2015 class of Multichanel News Wonder Women. The luncheon event will be held on Thursday, March 19, at the New York Hilton. more Video/Blogs MCN Hot Spot E!'s 'The Royals' Super Bowl Spot Translation Please, Leslie Ellis The World Of WebRTC Capital Letters, John Eggerton Comcast Won't Promote Policy Positions In Super Bowl As I Was Saying, Gary Arlen SymbolShifters Embeds Codes In Video Streams For Interactivity On Older DTV Receivers Reynolds' Rap, Mike Reynolds Shedding New LED Light On Super Bowl XLIX As I Was Saying, Gary Arlen Deloitte's Upbeat Media/Telecom Outlook Foresees Increased Spending The Bauminator, Jeff Baumgartner Samsung-Made 'XG2' Surfaces At FCC News Viacom Earnings Drop 9% In First Fiscal Quarter Falco To Helm Univision Through 2018 FCC Ups SEC 706 Broadband Speed To 25 Mbps Katy Perry's Super Bowl Halftime To Be 'Shoppable' WWE Network Touts Free February Offer Dish Inks Distribution Deal With El Rey FCC AWS 3 Auction Closes Trainer I - Stamford, CT Field Auditor - Klamath Falls - Klamath Falls, OR Systems Engineer I - ST LOUIS, MO Systems Engineer III - Senior Virtualization Engineer - Greenwood Village, CO See all career listings here.   ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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