Mixed Q3 for US Pay-TV Industry, Lower Churn at Cable MSOs
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - 51 mins ago
The third quarter of 2015 has turned out to be a mixed one for the U.S. pay-TV industry with sector participants having managed to consolidate their position despite stiff competition from online video streaming service providers.
T: 33.24 (+0.20), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), CVC: 31.14 (-0.17)
Is This Big Beer Merger Too Big to Pass?
Rich Duprey, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - 1 hr 16 mins ago
Anheuser-Busch InBev may just become too big to swallow No. 2 Miller in the eyes of regulators. After several deadline extensions to hammer out a side deal, Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller have reached a merger agreement that will see...
KO: 41.65 (-0.31), BUD: 124.81 (+2.42), HAL: 38.17 (-0.32), STZ: 137.60 (+2.34), TAP: 94.81 (+0.93), PEP: 98.82 (-0.74), S: 4.31 (+0.10), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), TMUS: 38.15 (+0.28), CMCSA: 61.03 (-0.32), BHI: 49.53 (+0.14)
Cord-Cutting Trend Continues To Hit Pay-TV Providers
at Investor's Business Daily - 1 hr 31 mins ago
As cord cutting continues to accelerate among millennials, pay-TV providers are feeling the pain. The largest pay-TV providers in the U.S., representing 95% of the market, lost about 190,000 video subscribers in Q3 2015, up from a loss of about...
T: 33.24 (+0.20), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), VZ: 45.13 (+0.09), CMCSA: 61.03 (-0.32), DISH: 62.10 (-0.35)
MEF Selects ADVA Optical Networking, Time Warner Cable Business Class and Juniper Networks to Showcase NFV Service Innovation at GEN15
GlobeNewswire - Tue Nov 17, 7:23AM CST
ADVA Optical Networking announced today that it has been chosen by the MEF to host a joint network functions virtualization (NFV) demonstration with Time Warner Cable Business Class and Juniper Networks at GEN15. The practical showcase goes much deeper than other demonstrations to actually reveal how NFV-centric services integrate with existing operations and business processes of communication service providers (CSPs). This aspect of the demonstration is key for CSPs as they seek to use NFV to rapidly expand the range of managed network services they offer. To succeed here requires a smooth migration from the existing hardware-centric model to one focused upon virtualizing customer premise equipment. The MEF specifically selected ADVA Optical Networking, Time Warner Cable Business Class and Juniper Networks because they collectively show how CSPs can effectively accomplish the transition to NFV-centric networks. The demo will be featured as part of the MEF's Proof of Concept showcase and will be available to view from November 16 until November 19.
TWC: 183.90 (-1.94)
Liberty Global, John Malone Snap Up Cable & Wireless
at Investor's Business Daily - Mon Nov 16, 3:17PM CST
Another day, another deal for media and telecom industry baron John Malone. Malone's Liberty Global (LBTYA) on Monday said it agreed to buy Cable & Wireless Communications in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $5.3 billion. Cable & Wireless sells...
LBRDA: 53.12 (+0.09), LMCA: 40.95 (-0.52), LBTYA: 43.16 (-0.94), LGF: 37.72 (+0.19), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), DISCA: 30.00 (-0.59), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), VOD: 34.02 (+0.23)
12 Stocks Warren Buffett Is Buying in 2015
at The Street - Mon Nov 16, 1:17PM CST
Here are 12 stocks Buffett acquired in the third quarter of the year.
KO: 41.65 (-0.31), PSX: 91.43 (+0.36), LMCK: 39.65 (-0.34), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), SU: 28.96 (+0.23), T: 33.24 (+0.20), CG: 17.21 (-0.14), LMCA: 40.95 (-0.52), LBTYA: 43.16 (-0.94), IBM: 133.63 (-0.08), FOXA: 30.08 (-0.22), KHC: 71.56 (-0.09), GM: 35.10 (-0.07), AXTA: 28.30 (-0.67), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), BRK.B: 133.48 (+0.18), BRK.A: 200,096.00 (+296.00)
Casa Systems Ranked Number 225 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte's 2015 Technology Fast 500(TM)
Marketwired - Mon Nov 16, 8:01AM CST
Casa Systems, a worldwide leader in next-generation cable edge technology, today announced it ranked No. 225 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500(TM), a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America. Casa grew 335 percent during this period.
LBTYK: 41.71 (-0.93), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94)
Here's How Pay-TV Providers Are Changing the Way You Watch Television
Chris Neiger, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Sat Nov 14, 1:00PM CST
Pay-TV providers Comcas t , Charter Communications , Dish Network , and others know that younger viewers aren't watching content the same way their parents did. There's plenty of talk about cord cutters, cord shavers, and cord neverers, and the...
NFLX: 116.16 (+4.81), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), DIS: 116.07 (+0.15), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), CMCSA: 61.03 (-0.32), DISH: 62.10 (-0.35)
Time Warner Cable Set to Possibly Rebound After Yesterday's Selloff of 1.86%
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Fri Nov 13, 4:44PM CST
Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $185.35 to a high of $190.20. Yesterday, the shares fell 1.9%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $187.05 on volume of 1.8 million shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
TWC: 183.90 (-1.94)
Watch for Time Warner Cable to Potentially Rebound After Falling 1.86% Yesterday
Comtex SmarTrend(R) - Fri Nov 13, 4:43PM CST
Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) traded in a range yesterday that spanned from a low of $185.35 to a high of $190.20. Yesterday, the shares fell 1.9%, which took the trading range below the 3-day low of $187.05 on volume of 1.8 million shares. Often times after large one-day declines, short-term traders may play for some degree of mean reversion.
TWC: 183.90 (-1.94)
Survey Shows Fewer Adults Considering Cutting the Cord
Daniel B. Kline, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Fri Nov 13, 4:15PM CST
For years, cord cutting has been the looming cloud hanging over the cable industry. Because streaming services like Netflix , Hulu, and Amazon 's Prime video cost so much less than cable, it has been assumed that customers would forgo traditional...
FTR: 4.77 (+0.01), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), CMCSA: 61.03 (-0.32)
Cable Still Able To Fend Off Netflix, Apple -- For Now
at Investor's Business Daily - Fri Nov 13, 3:05PM CST
With an increasing amount of video content now consumed on portable electronic devices, the future of the cable TV industry is, quite literally, in consumers' hands. Millennials are leading the small-screen trend. Although they account for only about...
AMZN: 644.35 (-3.46), IGLD: 11.91 (+0.27), FB: 105.28 (+1.24), AMCX: 78.65 (+1.98), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), SNE: 27.01 (-0.43), DISCA: 30.00 (-0.59), DIS: 116.07 (+0.15), CVC: 31.14 (-0.17), DISH: 62.10 (-0.35), TWX: 70.48 (-0.62), NFLX: 116.16 (+4.81), T: 33.24 (+0.20), LBTYA: 43.16 (-0.94), LGF: 37.72 (+0.19), FOXA: 30.08 (-0.22), GOOGL: 747.80 (-2.62), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), CMCSA: 61.03 (-0.32), AAPL: 113.79 (-0.39), SIRI: 4.09 (-0.01), CBS: 50.62 (-0.32)
Cheap Mumford and Sons Tickets at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Infinite Energy Arena, Time Warner Cable Arena, On Sale at MarketPlaceTickets.com
M2 - Fri Nov 13, 7:58AM CST
Mumford and Sons recently announced their intentions to tour the US beginning in April of next year. Tickets for shows at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina, Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth Georgia and the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana are now available online at MarketPlaceTickets.com
TWC: 183.90 (-1.94)
DISH Files Reply with FCC on Proposed Charter/Time Warner Cable Merger, Says Not in Public Interest
Business Wire - Thu Nov 12, 6:15PM CST
DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) today filed a reply with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) countering arguments made by Charter Communications, Inc. (Charter), Time Warner Cable, Inc. (TWC) and Bright House Networks (BHN) defending the proposed merger between the companies. In the reply, DISH outlines how the applicants have failed to prove that this proposed merger is in the public interest and reiterates its call for the FCC to deny the merger.
CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), DISH: 62.10 (-0.35)
2015 M&A Deals Worth More than Federal Budget
Ryan McQueeney - Zacks Investment Research - Thu Nov 12, 1:21PM CST
The 2015 global M&A volume has surpassed $4 trillion. We put this mind-boggling statistic into perspective.
CI: 134.00 (+0.51), ANTM: 135.96 (+0.90), BUD: 124.81 (+2.42), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), EMC: 25.22 (-0.05), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), BRK.B: 133.48 (+0.18), PCP: 230.95 (+0.11), AET: 105.47 (+0.46), HUM: 169.42 (+0.38)
Comcast Licenses X1 Video To Cox, First Cable Deal
at Investor's Business Daily - Thu Nov 12, 11:17AM CST
Comcast (CMCSA) has scored its first licensing deal for "X1" video technology with Cox Communications, the third-biggest cable TV company. Comcast in 2015 has sped up the deployment of Internet-ready, X1 set-top boxes within its own service...
CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), CMCSA: 61.03 (-0.32), CVC: 31.14 (-0.17)
Time Warner Cable News North Carolina and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina to Collaborate on a Series of Political Initiatives
Business Wire - Wed Nov 11, 10:45AM CST
Time Warner Cable News North Carolina (TWC News North Carolina) and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, today announced they will work together on a series of key nonpartisan political initiatives.
TWC: 183.90 (-1.94)
Video A 'Melting Ice Cube," But Broadband A Savior?
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed Nov 11, 10:06AM CST
Calling the video business "a melting ice cube," SunTrust Robinson Humphrey initiated coverage of the cable TV industry with a mostly neutral view, though Charter Communications (CHTR) mustered a buy rating. Inder Singh, an analyst at SunTrust...
T: 33.24 (+0.20), LBRDA: 53.12 (+0.09), S: 4.31 (+0.10), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), TMUS: 38.15 (+0.28), VZ: 45.13 (+0.09), CMCSA: 61.03 (-0.32), DISH: 62.10 (-0.35), CVC: 31.14 (-0.17)
Liberty Media (LMCA) Downgraded to Hold after Q3 Results
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Tue Nov 10, 1:40PM CST
Liberty Media (LMCA) recently reported mixed financial results in the third quarter of 2015.
LMCA: 40.95 (-0.52), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), SIRI: 4.09 (-0.01)
Charter Communications (CHTR): A Buy on Strong Prospects
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Tue Nov 10, 1:35PM CST
Charter Communications' (CHTR) earnings outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate while the top line lagged the same.
NFLX: 116.16 (+4.81), CHTR: 184.70 (-0.99), TWC: 183.90 (-1.94), VZ: 45.13 (+0.09)