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Digital Destiny
With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications, our society now has the potential for a truly democratic media system offering a wide variety of independent sources of news, information, and culture, with… -
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Breaking the cable company’s bundles
Remember those simpler, happier days when you could summarize your television viewing as “57 channels and nothing on”? If you don’t, no need to worry—there’s probably a documentary about it airing on one of the… -
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FCC to seek comment on broadband
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3 to 2 Thursday to seek public comment on its legal strategy for asserting greater regulatory authority over Internet service providers. The agency, still reeling from an April court decision… -
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Negotiate your way to lower cable TV, cellphone bills
For Sally Credille, everything is negotiable. Whether it’s buying a cellphone, setting up cable service or even paying an electric bill, Credille says she almost always bargains to get a better deal. Credille, a marketing… -
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Cable companies make comparison shopping ridiculously tough
Santa Monica resident Dan Sanders was interested in a fully monogamous relationship with Verizon Communications. He already received phone and Internet service from the company. Now he wanted to add TV to the mix. Sanders,… -
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Fox-Cablevision dispute may obstruct World Series for some
The feud between Cablevision and the News Corporation has already resulted in an extraordinarily long blackout of programming. Now it threatens to shut Cablevision customers out of the World Series. The News Corporation’s Fox and… -
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Rabbit ears perk up for free HDTV
Julie and Anthony Bayerl of St. Paul, Minn., love watching prime-time shows on the sleek 50-inch television in their bedroom. They also love that they pay nothing for the programming. The only thing they do… -
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Comcast-NBC merger doesn’t enhance the public interest
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is poised to greenlight the proposed merger of the big cable company Comcast Corp. with the huge entertainment conglomerate NBC-Universal. Genachowski wants to impose several conditions on the deal… -
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Television Service
Television is a key source of safety and emergency information, entertainment, and education for U.S. households. With hundreds of channels to choose from and many service providers vying for business, TV is not as simple… -
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Comcast-NBC deal includes provisions to protect public
The Federal Communications Commission and Justice Department did something remarkable on Tuesday: They came up with a set of conditions on a major business deal — Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal — that leading consumer… -
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Netflix tunes competition into its queue
By any measure, Netflix is having a marquee year. It has 20 million subscribers, way up from 12 million just a year ago. Its stock has tripled in that time. During periods of peak Internet… -
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¿Vale la pena pagar una tarifa para recibir un mejor servicio al cliente?
Es casi imposible recibir servicio al cliente en estos días sin tener que esperar al teléfono o a que venga un técnico en cualquier momento durante un período de ocho horas. Pero ahora las empresas… -
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Television Service (Korean)
텔레비전 서비스는 미국 내 가정들에 위한 안전과 비상시 정보, 오락, 그리고 교육 등을 제공하는 주요 군원 중 하나입니다. 선택 가능한 수백 개의 채널과 많은 서비스 제공자들이 비즈니스를 위해 경쟁하는 TV는 예전처럼 단순하지 않습니다. 이 안내문은… -
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Servicio de televisión
La televisión es fuente clave de información sobre seguridad y emergencias, entretenimiento, y educación para familias en Estados Unidos. La TV no es tan simple como antes ya que existen cientos de canales y muchos… -
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Empower U Powerpoint Companion Guide
The 13-page PDF Companion Guide provides guidance for teachers and team leaders in presenting the Empower U Powerpoint Slides. -
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Empower U Powerpoint Slides
The Empower U Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section. -
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Television Service (Vietnamese)
Vô tuyến truyền hình (TV) là nguồn cung cấp tin tức chính về sự an ninh và khẩn cấp, giải trí, cũng như giáo dục cho các gia đình ở Hoa Kỳ. Với hàng trăm… -
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Cable, satellite TV subscriptions slip
Americans are canceling or forgoing cable and satellite TV subscriptions in record numbers, according to an Associated Press analysis of quarterly earnings reports. The pay-TV industry first showed a small net loss of subscribers… -
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Pay-per-channel could help save cable firms
As a newspaper employee, I know a thing or two about the Internet eating your lunch. So I can say with complete sincerity: I feel Time Warner Cable’s pain. Southern California’s biggest cable provider lost… -
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More consumers spurn cable TV bills
In July, the Benediktssons of Chandler, Ariz., declared their independence from cable television. After watching their monthly bill steadily increase to $90, the family dropped their pay-TV subscription. But they didn’t totally cut the… -
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Television Service (Chinese)
多數美國家庭是以電視做為他們在安全、緊急資訊，娛樂以及教育方面的主要訊息資源。如今的電視有數百個播映頻道可以選擇，而且許多商家可利用它來做生意促銷, 電視的功能已不再像以前那樣單純。本文將詳述消費者的電視服務選擇以及如何為你和家人做出正確選擇。 -
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Rising broadcast fees will cost consumers
CNBC’s Darren Rovell reports cable consumers will be affected after December 31st, when MSG and Time Warner’s contract ends. -
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Time Warner Cable’s price going up again
Happy holidays. Your cable rates are going up. Again. In its most Grinch-like fashion, Time Warner Cable, the dominant cable company in Southern California, is alerting customers that rates for nearly all its services will…
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