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As of today, Tuesday 5/01, the daytime programming for KQED Life has returned to its own independent scheduling.

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May 24, 2012 -- Fox Broadcasting Co. has sued Dish Network, becoming the first television network to fire a legal salvo over the satellite company's controversial new ad-skipping device called AutoHop.

During the annual National Cable & Telecommunications Association show, Reuters reports Julius Genachowski voiced his support for broadband Internet plans that charge customers based on how often they use the service.

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 program is called "CableWifi," which is also the name of the hotspots available to customers.

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.

With laptops, smartphones and tablets, the expectation is 'Internet anywhere.' Now, Comcast is teaming up with other cable giants to offer free WiFi access when you're traveling out of town.

Comcast demonstrated its new system in Boston at the cable industry's biggest trade event, The Cable Show.

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.

The nation's largest cable operators are banding together to offer free Wi-Fi access to their broadband customers in more than 50,000 hotspots around the country.

Los Angeles - Battleship, Universal Pictures' big-budget science-fiction film, is likely to dent the studio's profits after it opened with lower than forecast ticket sales, according to analysts.

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 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.

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

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.

There are going to be a whole lot more pay television subscribers that can watch Watch ESPN in the next year.