130,000 Time Warner Cable Subscribers Go Missing. To Find Them, You Might Ask Verizon and AT&T.

It’s possible most of Time Warner Cable’s video losses stem from savvy folks like yourself, who cut the cord and get their TV over the Web. But it’s not that likely.
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Reminder: It’s Really Easy to Pirate TV. Even Live Sports.

Today’s reminder, courtesy of the NBA, the cable guys and Union Square’s Fred Wilson.
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HBO Go Is Finally Going to Be on Time Warner Cable

Time Warner and its former cable company figure it out. Finally.
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Time to Say Goodbye to the Cable Guy: Why You’ll Buy TV on the Web in 2012

“Not if, just when in 2012″, says analyst Rich Greenfield. OK. But who? Amazon? Verizon? Wal-Mart?
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Comcast and Verizon Merge Without Merging

Two huge pipe players agree to work together — by staying out of each other’s businesses.
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Boxee Sells Live TV (That You Already Get for Free) With a Big Dose of Cord-Cutting Rhetoric

A new $50 dongle provides a good opportunity to check in with CEO Avner Ronen and get a state-of-the-state on his business. Short version: Users like his stuff; big TV programmers, not so much.
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Ad Sales Are Either Okay, Growing Slower, or Soft. Pick Your Answer!

Depending on who you ask, the ad market is holding steady, or growing more slowly than predicted, or maybe something a little more dire.
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Big Cable Loses More Subscribers, Still Says It Isn’t Seeing Cord-Cutting

Different quarter, same story. Today it’s Time Warner Cable, which lost 128,000 subscribers. Did they go to competitors like Verizon? Or disruptors like Netflix? You make the call.
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Did Starz Turn Down $300 Million a Year From Netflix to Make the Cable Guys Happy?

New theory behind the Netflix/Starz breakup: Netflix was willing to pay up — it just wasn’t willing to price its service like a cable channel.
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Time Warner Cable Nears Insight Deal

Time Warner Cable Inc. is nearing a deal to buy Insight Communications Inc., the cable operator controlled by private-equity firm Carlyle Group, for about $3 billion including debt.

Big Cable Braces for a Lousy Quarter