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Cable TVs cost here ratchets up Sheboygan Press Lenny Kovacich of Sheboygan was furious Wednesday when he opened a letter from Charter Communications, informing him that his cable television bill was going up $9 a month. Britain's NTL cable firm drops offer for ITV Calendarlive.com NTL Inc., Britain's biggest cable television company, abandoned a $9.33-billion offer for ITV less than three weeks after British Sky Broadcasting Group bought a stake in the broadcaster. Cable company might lose ABC, FOX The Advocate NEWARK — Ohio State Buckeye and “Grey’s Anatomy” fans who are Time Warner Cable subscribers might have a unpleasant television surprise come January. Shortcuts: How to buy a television CNN.com The world biggest television went on sale in London this week. Made by Panasonic and costing a wallet-busting £50,000 ($98,460), the plasma screen set is 103 inches (8.7feet) wide and weighs in at a whopping 220 kilograms. This latest piece of high-tech home entertainment kit may be out-of-reach for most of us, but there are still plenty of other alternatives on the market to tempt the modern U.K. Cable Firm NTL Ends Bid For ITV Channel NBC 5 Chicago Cable and telephone company NTL Inc. said Wednesday it has abandoned its takeover bid for ITV PLC, Britain's largest independent television broadcaster, and will concentrate on integrating its recently acquired business units. Cable rate increases in U.S. are smallest in years Pittsburgh Post-Gazette AP. For years consumers have enjoyed falling phone rates thanks to increasing competition in the telecommunications business. Now competition is beginning to have a similar effect on how much households pay for television service. Britain: NTL Gives Up on Its Bid for ITV New York Times NTL, the cable television company, abandoned a £4.73 billion ($9.35 billion) bid for ITV, ending a month of wrangling between the billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Richard Branson. NTL said it was unlikely to reach a deal after ITV, a commercial broadcaster, rejected the bid and the British Sky Broadcasting Group bought a 17.9 percent stake last month. Mr. Murdoch is chairman of BSkyB, and Mr. ??Warner Bros. Study Touts Acquired Cable Series Programming Digital Video Editing (Broadcasting & Cable) _ Warner Bros. is about to hit the streets with a new study intended to dispel myths about acquired cable series programming and indicating that more viewers turn to cable for reruns than originals. Frustrated With Time Warner Cable? So Is the City The Signal In recent weeks, residents throughout Santa Clarita have contacted the city to express frustration with the level of customer service they are receiving from their cable operator, Time Warner Cable. WHIO-TV, Time Warner Cable in contract negotiation talks Dayton Daily News DAYTON — Time Warner Cable and WHIO-TV, Channel 7, are in negotiations over continuing to carry it as part of the cable company's programming.
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