Less than a month after being sworn in, Donald Trump has begun to destroy the Internet. Well, at least that seems to be the opinion of multiple Internet activists and politicians.
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What Disney Investors Really Want to Know on Tuesday
CEO Bob Iger will have plenty to address on Tuesday’s earnings call, but no issue is more pressing than who will succeed him as CEO — and when. Disney reports its December quarter earnings at the close of trading on Tuesday, and here’s the quick and dirty: Wall Street analysts are expecting earnings for Disney’s fiscal first quarter to total $1.50 per share.
Super Bowl to Dwarf New Releases at Weekend Box Office
Theater traffic typically plunges on Super Bowl weekend and revenue from the top 10 films could total an “unexciting” $78 million this weekend, according to analysts at MKM Partners. Thriller Split from Comcast’s Universal Pictures unit should take first place at the domestic box office for the third straight weekend with revenue of $14 million, per the firm’s estimates.
FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality
The FCC also rescinded several other Wheeler-era reports and actions. The FCC released its report on the data cap exemptions in the final days of Democrat Tom Wheeler’s chairmanship.
Comcast will treat Rokus like CableCARDs, not set-top boxes
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Marketers express hope for a more pro-business FCC under Ajit Pai
Marketers are welcoming the appointment of new Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai, who took over from Tom Wheeler last week. The Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies expressed hope that Pai will overturn many of the sweeping privacy rules that were enacted by the agency under his predecessor Tom Wheeler, which limited data gathering, use and sharing by internet service providers like Verizon and Comcast.
What’s Next After This Fourth-Quarter Surprise From Comcast Corp.?
The report came in above analyst expectations, and Comcast shares ended the day 2.8% higher. It’s fair to say that Comcast fired on all cylinders this quarter.
Verizon is reportedly in talks to merge with Charter, America’s second-biggest cable company
Roughly a year after swallowing up Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications could merge with yet another massive broadband and TV provider: Verizon. The telecommunications giant is exploring a combination with Charter, the nation’s second-largest cable company, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Better Buy: AT&T Inc. vs. T-Mobile US Inc.
For most of its history, investing in telecom companies was a pretty straightforward process. Huge barriers to entry and a certain level of government regulation protected these giants.
Comcast Beats Earnings Estimates, Declares 2-For-1 Stock Split
CEO Brian Roberts said Comcast posted its best video customer results in a decade, and its best internet customer results in nine years. The country’s largest cable-TV provider exceeded Wall Street’s expectations in the fourth quarter, handily beating estimates for both revenue and profits on higher licensing and affiliate fees for its cable-TV and broadcast networks.
Stock Futures Rise as Comcast, eBay Top Earnings Forecasts
Stock futures rise on Thursday, looking to add to a historic rally a day earlier, as positive earnings continue to filter in. Stock futures rose on Thursday, looking to add to a historic rally a day earlier, as positive earnings continued to filter in.
at&T Ceo optimistic about tax reform under Trump
“I was meeting with a CEO. It was obvious,” Stephenson said on a conference call to discuss AT&T’s fourth quarter earnings.
DirecTV’s Streaming Service Accounted for All of AT&T’s Video Subscriber Growth Last Quarter
In just one month, DirecTV Now managed to attract over 200,000 paid subscribers. That’s according to an SEC filing from DirecTV’s parent company AT&T PlayStation Vue.
AT&T Sees Dip in Pay TV Subscribers in Fourth Quarter, Meets Profit Expectations
Telecom giant AT&T, which has agreed to acquire Time Warner for $85.4 billion, on Wednesday reported a slight loss in TV subscribers as it reported its fourth-quarter results. During the latest quarter, AT&T posted earnings of $2.4 billion, down from a year-earlier profit of $4 billion, on overall revenue down slightly to $41.8 billion, compared to a year-earlier $42.1 billion.
RT Channel’s Unique Carriage Deals Make It Difficult to Drop in U.S.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Editor-in-chief of RT, the 24-hour English-language TV news channel, Margarita Simonyan, attend an exhibition marking RT’s 10th anniversary in Moscow in December 2015. The Kremlin-financed RT television channel, thrust into the spotlight by a recent U.S. intelligence report , has over the years secured carriage on U.S. cable and satellite services in a way that largely protects it from being dropped.
Earnings Outlook: Comcast earnings: What to expect as merger rumors circle amid regulatory mess
That would be a more than 7% increased compared with the same quarter a year ago, but a more than 5% drop off compared with Comcast’s most recent third quarter. Comcast has beat FactSet expectations on per-share earnings in six of the last 10 quarters.
Trump has picked Ajit Pai to serve as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
Trump has picked Ajit Pai to serve as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Pai is currently the senior Republican commissioner at the FCC and does not require Senate approval.
Philadelphia bars employers from requesting salary history
In this June 23, 2014, file photo, job seekers and recruiters meet during a job fair in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney signed a bill Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, that bans employers from asking potential hires to provide their salary … FILE – In this July 15, 2009, file photo, job seekers wait in line during a sixth annual “Grand Slam Career Fair” at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
How YouTube could capitalize on its rivals’ mistakes, and…
But the time is ripe for YouTube to strike, according to Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves, who laid out a possible battle plan in a note distributed on Friday. “Google’s extraordinary data and ability to deliver video across platforms position it to disrupt traditional pay TV and capture TV ad dollars, in our view,” Hargreaves wrote.
Shell Asset Management Co. Has $1,015,000 Position in Dish Network Corp.
Shell Asset Management Co. decreased its position in shares of Dish Network Corp. by 13.4% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports.
Shell Asset Management Co. Has $1,015,000 Position in Dish Network Corp.
Shell Asset Management Co. decreased its position in shares of Dish Network Corp. by 13.4% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports.
AT&T Added More Than 200,000 Video Subs in Fourth Quarter, “Entirely Driven by DirecTV Now”
Telecom giant AT&T, which has agreed to acquire Time Warner for $85.4 billion, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it will report “more than 200,000 video net adds” for its fourth quarter, with the figure being “entirely driven by DirecTV Now.” The company launched the streaming video service at the end of November and previously only said that its fourth-quarter earnings report would shed some light on the early subscriber performance.
Internal document raises possibility of ‘Netflix tax’
A briefing note for MA lanie Joly, minister of Canadian Heritage, weighs the pros and cons of enforcing a sales tax on the digital services of foreign companies such as Netflix. The Liberal government is reviewing whether to enforce a so-called Netflix tax on the digital services Canadians buy from foreign-based firms over the internet.
Hidden Fees Cost Consumers Billions: Which Ones Are the Worst?
Fees for common items like mortgages, credit cards, bank accounts and online deliverables, among many others, can really add up, and do hit consumers hard in the pocketbook. That goes double for so-called “hidden fees” – shadowy charges on goods and services that buyers usually don’t know about.
Umb Bank N a Mo Sells 3,275 Shares of Dish Network Corporation
UMB Bank N A MO reduced its position in DISH Network Corporation by 41.7% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 4,575 shares of the company’s stock after selling 3,275 shares during the period.
The outgoing FCC chairman doesn’t think his legacy will be easily overturn.
In a counterfactual world where Hillary Clinton wins the election, the Federal Communications Commission goes after AT&T for “zero-rating” DirecTV Now. What’s more, the agency uses the fact that Time Warner has licenses for the operation of satellites to force AT&T to submit its proposed $85 billion merger, and then, leans on the telecom giant to accept as a condition for approval, that it will no longer exempt the consumption of its owned content from consumers’ data caps.
Trump meets with AT&T execs about Time Warner merger
Donald Trump Trump vs. the Democrats: Is this the end of the 100-year war over the Estate Tax? French far-right leader Le Pen spotted at Trump Tower Pompeo would ‘absolutely not’ obey torture order from Trump MORE on Thursday morning met with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson as the company pushes for support for its planned merger with Time Warner. Stephenson and Robert Quinn, AT&T’s senior vice president for legislative affairs, arrived at Trump Tower shortly after 9 a.m., according to pool reports.
Comcast is America’s Most-Hated Company
In business, perception is everything: A single bad experience can burn a brand name and ruin a company’s reputation. So it’s no surprise that well-known tech companies including Comcast, Facebook, Dish, Sprint, and Charter Communications landed on a list of America’s most-hated businesses.
FCC takes aim at AT&T, Verizon over ‘zero-rating’ services
The Federal Communications Commission expressed concerns on Wednesday about “zero-rating” services from AT&T and Verizon that “may harm consumers and competition.” In a report issued Wednesday examining four different zero-rated services, the FCC’s Wireless Bureau found that AT&T’s Sponsored Data program and Verizon’s FreeBee Data 360 program may stifle competition by “potentially unreasonable discrimination in favor of their own affiliates.”
Cable companies pushing to repeal internet privacy rules
Some of America’s biggest cable companies are asking the government to roll back a landmark set of privacy regulations it approved last fall — kicking off an effort by the industry and its allies to dismantle key internet policies of the Obama years. In a petition filed to federal regulators Monday, a top Washington trade group whose members include Comcast, Charter and Cox Communications argued that the rules should be thrown out.
Trump Said to Tell Confidant He Remains Opposed to AT&T Deal
Donald Trump remains opposed to the megamerger between AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. because he believes it would concentrate too much power in the media industry, according to people close to the president-elect, who has been publicly silent about the transaction for months. Trump told a friend in the last few weeks that he still considers the merger to be a bad deal, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the conversation was private.
AT&T sees faster path for deal
AT&T Inc. and Time Warner Inc. said they can avoid having the Federal Communications Commission scrutinize their proposed merger, eliminating a significant hurdle in the path of the $85.4 billion deal, which has attracted criticism from President-elect Donald Trump. “While subject to change, it is currently anticipated that Time Warner will not need to transfer any of its FCC licenses to AT&T in order to continue to conduct its business operations after the closing of the transaction,” the companies said in a regulatory filing dated Thursday.
Here’s how the Trump administration will make your internet…
The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked victory for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at 12 on an index where the current top threat is a Chinese economic “hard landing” rated 20 Most talk about President-elect Donald Trump’s technology policies – or “the cyber,” as he calls them – has revolved around his takes on Russia’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee. After being appointed as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission by President Obama, Tom Wheeler enacted a set of reforms to United States telecommunications policy that reclassified internet service providers as common carriers, thus allowing him to implement network neutrality restrictions on their activities.
AT&T to Test 5G Wireless for Delivery of – DirecTV Now’ to Homes
AT&T Inc. has reached speeds of up to 14 gigabits a second in lab trials of 5G wireless technology, and plans to test the high-speed network by beaming its DirecTV Now video service to homes in Austin, Texas before midyear. Through a collaboration with a dozen partners including Intel Corp., Ericsson AB and Qualcomm Inc., AT&T plans to use experimental airwaves to test fifth-generation or 5G residential and business services as a potentially cheaper method than fiber-optic cable for high-capacity connections, said John Donovan, AT&T’s chief strategy officer.
Best Cable Stocks of 2016
Cord-cutting grew worse in 2016 as an estimated more than 750,000 customers left pay-TV for other options over the last four quarters.Few operators bucked the trend this year, but there were still a handful of standout performers in the industry. Here are three of the best cable stocks from 2016.
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The Worst Cable Stocks of 2016
As more consumers cut the cord, competition in the pay-TV industry is growing increasingly fierce. That’s led some companies to seek consolidating acquisitions like AT&T did last year by buying DIRECTV.
Brokerages Set DISH Network Corporation (DISH) Target Price at $68.41
Shares of DISH Network Corporation have been assigned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the twenty-two brokerages that are currently covering the firm. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eight have issued a hold rating, nine have issued a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating on the company.
Hollywood’s Chinese Growth Engine Stalls in 2016
After growing nearly fourfold in the past five years, ticket sales in China are set for only a slight increase this year, bad news for studio profit margins. China’s box office, the engine of growth and safety blanket for Hollywood’s biggest budget films, is starting to show signs of age.