WHY THIS MATTERS:Charter has been considered more of a growth stock than some of its larger peers, but some recent glitches around the integration of its Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks systems over the past several months have cast some doubt on those growth prospects.
WHY THIS MATTERS:Comcast's residential and business data groups generate about $20 billion in revenue per year, are growing at about 10% and remain accretive to the company's margins, Comcast chair/CEO Brian Roberts said on the MSO's Q3 earnings call.
WHY THIS MATTERS:The FCC has decided not to exclude ATSC 3.0 signals from retransmission consent negotiations, though the mandatory simulcasts of old and new transmission standards must be essentially the same, per a draft of the ASTC 3.0 rollout order circulated by agency chair Ajit Pai.