| | | | Cover Story: TV's Wild New Frontier  | As audiences shift, subs decline and competition spreads, cable stocks get bloodied
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| | WHY THIS MATTERS: Apologies to Newton Minow, but TV isn't a vast wasteland; it's a jungle. And the jungle just got a lot meaner, as cable networks, which had grown fat and happy feasting on double-digit affiliate fee increases and strong advertising growth over the past several decades, are slogging through a wholly new landscape. | | | | ViaSat 2 Launches With Big Broadband Potential | Speeds of 100 Mbps-plus could be beamed to the home via new satellite, CEO says
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| | WHY THIS MATTERS: Lofted into orbit last week, ViaSat 2 will provide 300 Gigabits per second of total throughput, the kind of speeds typically delivered by wired broadband services. | | | Wireless-Cable Deal Likely, Later if Not Sooner
| Industry's MVNO efforts could spur deal-making once scale is reached
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| WHY THIS MATTERS: Cable's latest attempt to crack the wireless code could provide the economic basis for a successful run in what has been an elusive market for the industry, but as the service matures, those same economics could push MSOs toward a deal with a wireless company.
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