Cox Communication News

Today will be the last day Cox Communications cable customers will be able to watch WSLS-TV unless an agreement is reached between Cox and Media General by the end of the day.

Cox Communications has expanded the trial of its home security/home automation offering to Greater Phoenix.

By Tuesday, May 29th, WKRG-TV had begun broadcasting an announcement during commercial breaks referring to the possibility of Cox Communications no longer providing programming from the station through their cable TV systems in Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach, Florida if they do not have a new retransmission consent contract with Media General , ... (more)

Three television stations may go dark as an impasse is looming in retransmission consent talks between Media General and Cox Communications, reports B&C . The affected stations would be WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Va.; WJAR-TV in Providence, R.I.; and WKRG-TV in Mobile, Ala., the story says.

Comcast Corp. 's latest Xfinity TV app release for Android now lets authenticated customers stream on-demand content from the operator's TV Everywhere library, joining a lineup that already includes iOS devices, PCs and the Xbox 360.

East Valley residents have long been able to order pay-per-view movies, faster internet speeds, or long-distance phone service telecommunications provider Cox Communications.

Thursday, May 31st is the last day of the current retransmission consent contract between Cox Communications and Media General , the owners of WKRG-TV. Unless they have a new contract by the end of Thursday or the current contract is extended, Cox Communications would have to stop retransmitting programming from WKRG-TV through their cable TV ... (more)

Cox Communications will be airing, live, the graduations of 46 local high schools on Channel 96 from June 10-24. The ceremonies can also be watched live at cox96.net by clicking on the "Live TV" tab, but Cox will only be filming graduations at the Orleans Arena and Thomas & Mack Center.

One could almost say it was SBC that gave rival Cox Communications its first leg-up into the telephone business - a decision that telco might now regret.

May 24, 2012 -- Cox Communications ranked highest in customer satisfaction among data service providers for small and midsize businesses and second among data service providers for very small businesses in the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Major Provider Business Telecommunications Data Services Study.

Cox Communications is teaming up with First National Technology Solutions to offer cloud computing services to small- and medium-sized business customers in Omaha.

Media General's retransmission consent contract expires on May 31. If a new agreement is not reached by then, by law, Cox cannot carry WSLS/NBC channels, 10.1 in HD, 10.2 or Me-TV on 10.3. The retransmission consent agreement, includes a fee cable providers pay to those who provide channels, for example, ESPN or TNT.

Is Netflix a friend or foe to the traditional cable TV companies? Cox Communications CEO Patrick Esser says it's a "frenemy." There's no question that Netflix and other over-the-top Internet-based video services have shaken things up for traditional TV distributors and content owners.

For cable companies looking for ways to sustain growth in their maturing U.S. video businesses, young consumers like Diana Guay Dixon may become the industry's biggest problem yet.

After selling the company's AWS spectrum holdings to Verizon, Cox is looking to offload additional spectrum to AT&T and U.S. Cellular.

A semi truck took down four utility poles in Fort Smith Tuesday evening, according to a dispatcher with the Fort Smith Police.

Five large cable operators said Monday they will join forces to give customers access to each other's wireless Internet hot spots in the most sweeping Wi-Fi roaming agreement struck by the industry to date.

WJAR / NBC 10, a Media General NBC affiliate, on Monday announced that its current retransmission consent contract with Cox Communications expires on May 31, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. and at this time it appears unlikely that a new agreement will be reached.

The joint effort has been dubbed " CableWiFi ." Free WiFi is a hot commodity for those whose gadgets aren't 3G or 4G ready, and for those who don't have personal hotspot devices.

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