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How Badly Do You Really Want Your MTV–Or Your ABC or Fox or Your Food Network? Cablevision Wants to Know.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 19, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

Would you pay a dollar a month to watch “24″ on Fox? What about “Lost” on ABC? What about whatever it is they show on HGTV? Cablevision asks its customers, and I bet the data would be fascinating for the rest of us.

The Cable Guys Ask for Some Love

Peter Kafka in Media on November 25, 2009 at 6:36 am PT

A year ago, when Time Warner Cable and Viacom sparred over renewal fees, Viacom took out ads asking consumers for sympathy. Today, faced with the prospect of similar fights with the likes of News Corp. and Scripps, Time Warner Cable is launching its own appeal. Good luck with that.

Starz Joins Comcast’s “Web TV You’ll Pay to See” Lineup

Peter Kafka in Media on July 9, 2009 at 2:02 pm PT

Liberty Media’s Starz Entertainment has signed on to Comcast’s “On Demand Online” program, which is the first test of the cable industry’s “authentication”/“entitlement” strategy. Or, as I like to call it, “Web TV You’ll Pay to See.” Starz, which has the cable and Web rights to much of the Disney catalog, among other assets, says it will make some of those films, including “Wall-E” and “High School Musical 3,” available for Comcast’s test, which is supposed to launch this month. Also available: TV series like “Crash” and non-Disney movies like Sony’s “Step Brothers.”