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NBCUniversal announced Wednesday that it has given Susan Malfa oversight of ad sales for Style Media, to go along with Bravo and Oxygen Media and Women at NBCU.

Cable operators' share of the business services market could double to as much as 21% in the next five years, according to a panel discussion at The Cable Show Tuesday.

Usage-based pricing critics inside the Beltway were quick to criticize or try to correct Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski's Tuesday after he gave a shout-out to price experimentation as an important business model.

The Federal Communications Commission is drawing the ire of Netflix for its support of tiered broadband Internet plans, which FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Tuesday would be "healthy and beneficial" for broadband and high-tech industries.

Verizon Wireless and Comcast used Cable Show 2012 general session on Tuesday to pull a new product rabbit out of their collective hats, a new mobile search portal dubbed "viewdini". Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead said viewdini will leverage the capacity of its LTE network, streamlining access to videos from a wide range of content providers, ... (more)

Comcast on Tuesday unveiled three new features for its residential phone customers that take advantage of the fact that its phone system uses voice-over-Internet-protocol technology.

Comcast , Cablevision , Time Warner Cable , Bright House Networks, and Cox Communications, say that they will let their high-speed Internet customers share each other's Wi-Fi networks in metropolitan areas as a value-added service.

Comcast executive vice president David Cohen told reporters that the headline on its announcement Thursday that it was changing its Xfinity data-use threshholds should be that there was no longer a cap, but critics of usage-based pricing saw it differently.

Comcast Corp. said Thursday it will raise its data transmission limit on residential Internet customers from 250 gigabytes per month.

Comcast announced Thursday that it will raise its broadband cap to 300 GB per month as it tests two new ways to deal with managing network traffic, the cable provider said in a blog post today.

The ailing TV network is making a desperate attempt at salvaging its remains. But cancelled shows, lackluster pilots and management's desperate remarks are pointing to the company's imminent demise.

House Communications Subcommittee member Mike Doyle wants some info from Verizon on its continued commitment to Verizon FiOS wireline video service.

Comcast is considering a sale regarding its 15.8 percent stake in the A&E networks to fellow owners the Walt Disney Co.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino won't be attending the National Cable & Telecommunications Association convention in his city later this month, according to a spokesman for the mayor's cable office.

For all its mistakes in 2011, Netflix is still the leader of video streaming. It is still the leader of DVD rentals.

Comcast reported Q1 EPS of $0.45, topping estimates by $0.03.Revenues in the quarter came in at $14.88 billion, vs.

Comcast will soon offer cable TV customers access to WatchESPN -- expanding the reach of the live-sports streaming service to 40 million households -- and also will become the first pay-TV provider to offer live and on-demand "TV Everywhere" content from Disney's three children's cable networks, said Matt Murphy, Disney & ESPN Media Networks senior ... (more)

The Federal Communications Commission has stayed the administrative law judge decision granting Tennis Channel's program carriage complaint against Comcast, but only until the commissioners vote chairman Julius Genachowski's proposal "addressing the Tennis Channel's petition to compel compliance and Comcast's petition for conditional stay." Comcast ... (more)

Chairman, CEO and President Brian Roberts said he expects the controversial deal in which a joint venture between Comcast and two other cable-television firms would sell its 122 Advanced Wireless Services spectrum licenses to Verizon Wireless for $3.6 billion to close in the latter part of the year.

Comcast announced that it earned $1.224 billion, or 45 cents per share in its most recent fiscal quarter, versus $943 million, or 34 cents per share, in the same period last year.