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Deadline Big Media With David Lieberman, Episode 32

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday April 26, 2013 @ 12:24pm PDTTags: Apple, Deadline Big Media, Google Fiber, Netflix

Listen to (and share) Episode 32 of our audio podcast Deadline Big Media, as Deadline executive editor David Lieberman and host David Bloom discuss whether Netflix is about to take off or already has soared as high as it can; what to make of Apple’s massive stock buyback and dividend announcements; and disputes over whether Google Fiber is hurting Time Warner Cable and other competitors, even as Moody’s predicts heavy consolidation ahead for cable providers trying to lock down business clients.

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Time Warner Cable Says It Sees Little Impact From Google Fiber

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday April 25, 2013 @ 6:40am PDTTags: Glenn Britt, Google Fiber, Time Warner Cable

“They have a glow about them,” Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt told analysts this morning. But he sees the search company’s effort to expand its speedy fiber-optic broadband system to Austin — intensifying … Read More »

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Deadline Big Media With David Lieberman, Episode 30

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday April 12, 2013 @ 1:39pm PDTTags: Aereo, CinemaCon, Deadline Big Media, Google Fiber

Listen to (and share) our audio podcast Deadline Big Media With David Lieberman as our executive editor and host David Bloom talk about broadcaster threats to abandon the airwaves for pay cable if Aereo wins; a gloomy Fitch’s report on the exhibition business just ahead of next week’s CinemaCon gathering in Las Vegas; and what ultrafast internet connections such as Google Fiber might mean for Hollywood.

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Should Time Warner Cable Worry About Google Fiber In Austin, TX?

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday April 9, 2013 @ 12:59pm PDTTags: Google Fiber, Time Warner Cable

UPDATE, 2:38 PM: AT&T says today that it, too, “is prepared to build” a speedy 1 gigabit per second broadband system in Austin. It expects the city to grant “the same terms and conditions as Google … Read More »

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Time Warner Cable Says It Makes The Best Of A Bad Situation With Sports, And Google

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 9:23am PSTTags: Google Fiber, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Lakers, Time Warner Cable

The No. 2 cable operator took it on the chin this morning after telling analysts in a conference call that rising programming costs and the lack of political ads will ding profits more than many expected. The stock is down 10% at mid-day. The disclosures inevitably led some to wonder whether Time Warner Cable contributed to its problems, at least in Southern California, by agreeing to pay hefty amounts to help create a regional sport channels that carries the Los Angeles Lakers and become a charter distributor for one for the Dodgers. CEO Glenn Britt says he had little choice. “We do not pretend that these deals are inexpensive or cheap,” he said. But sports is must-have programming, and the agreements “minimize and stabilize the cost over a long time period….In both cases these rights were up for auction and were going to be expensive no matter what happened.”

Related: Time Warner Cable Shares Fall After It Reports Mixed Q4 Performance

Execs say it’s too early to calculate the hit it will take in 2014 when the Dodgers’ SportsNet LA launches. The upshot, though, is that the vow Britt made last month to draw the line on rising programming costs will mostly affect small channels that few people watch — including Ovation, which the cable company ditched at year end. Britt renewed his commitment to “drop or re-position channels that don’t add to price-value.” Time Warner’s programming costs jumped 32% over the last four years, he says, while the Consumer Price Index rose 9%. Read More »

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Google CEO Apologizes For Earnings SNAFU As Company Talks Up Android

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday October 18, 2012 @ 2:34pm PDTTags: Google, Google Fiber, Larry Page, YouTube

“I’m sorry for the scramble earlier today,” Google CEO Larry Page told analysts on a conference call. And that was that regarding the uproar today after the company’s earnings were prematurely released — resulting in … Read More »

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Google Warns It Faces “Difficulty” Landing Sports Channels In Kansas Pay TV System

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday September 21, 2012 @ 4:45pm PDTTags: FCC, Google Fiber, Sports

Welcome to the pay TV world, Google. The mighty search company startled a lot of people in cable when it announced its Google Fiber TV and Internet service in Kansas City. The fiber optic service, launched in July, offers consumers broadband speeds of 1 Gb per second, far faster than cable’s typical 5 Mb per second. How could cable and its allies fight that? Google provided a clue today in a letter disclosing what it told several FCC staffers yesterday: They discussed “the importance of being able to provide customers with access to must-have live regional sports programming and the difficulty of obtaining this programming.” Read More »

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Business Briefs: Bloomberg TV Vs. Comcast, Apple Vs. Samsung, Google Fiber

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 14, 2012 @ 6:36pm PDTTags: Apple, Bloomberg TV, Google Fiber

Bloomberg TV Asks FCC To Force Comcast Channel Placement
Bloomberg TV petitioned the FCC on Friday to force Comcast to immediately place the independent business news channel in the close numerical proximity to similar news services … Read More »

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Google Fiber To Carry NFL Network: Report

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 3:21pm PDTTags: Google Fiber, NFL Network

Google’s prototype fiber-delivered broadband service in Kansas City has struck a deal to carry NFL Networks and the a la carte RedZone channel (every touchdown from every Sunday afternoon game). This marks the second competing provider in … Read More »

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