MCN Newswire: TWC's Best Week Ever; Mediacom, Media General Get Together; Set-Top Market Slammed

Top Stories - July 31, 2015 Time Warner Reports Best Q2 Sub Results Since 2008 Time Warner Cable, still months away from closing on its $78.7 billion merger with Charter Communications, continues to rack up strong results, dramatically reducing basic-video subscriber losses and reporting its first positive customer relationship growth since 2008. more RELATED: Marcus: OTT Resistance Is 'Foolish' Time Warner Cable chairman and CEO Rob Marcus told analysts Thursday that while the cable industry should embrace over-the-top video, the full cable bundle still appears to present the best value at this stage of the game. more Mediacom, Media General Strike Retrans Deal Mediacom and Media General have struck a retransmission-consent deal for the local stations Media General acquired from LIN, two weeks after they went dark to Mediacom's subscribers on July 14. more Sens. Slam Pay TV Set-Top Market Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) say information they collected from the top 10 pay TV providers indicates a continuing lack of choice and competition in the set-top box market, a finding that comes as the FCC works on a downloadable set-top security successor to the CableCARD. more Discovery, Doğuş Media Form Strategic Relationship Discovery Communications has agreed to form a strategic relationship with Doğuş Media Group, one of Turkey's leading media groups, making the company its ad sales representative in the country and agreeing to purchase its free-to-air CNBC-e channel. more Video/Blogs/Events MCN Original Video: One Question for... Comedy Central's Kent Alterman at #TCA15 MCN Sneak Peek Disney Channel's 'Descendents': The First 6 Minutes RELATED: MCN Review Disney Channel's 'Descendents' On the Money, Mike Farrell 2016: The Critical Year for Measurement The Bauminator, Jeff Baumgartner Analyst Still Bullish on Arris Through the Wire, From the July 27 Print Edition Riding the Wave From Digital to HD to 4K — Timing Is Everything Event: Technology Leadership Cloud Summit Raleigh, N.C., Aug. 5-6 Event: NYC Television Week, Oct. 20-22 Waldorf Astoria, Oct. 20; Park Central Hotel, Oct. 21-22 News TCA: ID Taps Barbara Walters for New Series TCA: AHC Sets Castro Documentary TCA: Destination America to Host Live Exorcism FCC Republicans: Start Clock on Charter-TWC RELATED: Wheeler Circulates Charter-TWC Protective Orders AT&T AdWorks Absorbs DirecTV Ad Business SCTE Plugs Standards Into 'Energy 2020' Program Google, NCC Saluting Muni Broadband Efforts FCC's Clyburn: Cost at Root of Digital Divide FreedomPop Lands $6M More Arris Revenues, Earnings Dip in Q2 O'Connell Promoted to EVP at NBCU Lifestyle Nets Outside Sales Representative Childersburg Alabama Childersburg, AL - Charter Sales Analyst CB Englewood, CO - Charter Outside Sales Representative Columbia TN Columbia, TN - Charter CB Broadband Technician-Grand Island,NE Grand Island, NE - Charter See all career listings here.   ©2015 NewBay Media, LLC

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