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...through fiber-optic lines. Verizon has signed up 1.4 million video subscribers, a good many of them in the Northeast, where Comcast rules. By 2010, Verizon expects its video, phone and Internet effort, dubbed fios, to reach 18 million households. AT&T is following along the same track, while EchoStar and DirecTV continue to add satellite-video subscribers...
...into this, you realize we're helping the industry.'' If nothing else, Sling has media titans in its corner. Its financial backers include moguls John Malone and Charlie Ergen, who respectively run Liberty Media Corp., the Colorado-based international media and cable company with cable operations around Europe, and Echostar, the second largest satellite-television provider in the U.S. Along with Goldman Sachs, they led a $46.6 million Sling investment in January. Doubtless, competition will come. Sony is marketing a box it calls LocationFree. Other Sling rivals include Emeryville, California-based Orb and Houston-based SnapStream. Set-top boxmakers such...
...Want My MTV! U.S. media giant Viacom ended a dispute with EchoStar that left 9 million of the satellite TV provider's customers without access to Viacom channels, including MTV and Nickelodeon, for two days...
...want to see the future of the Beeb as media giant, click on BBC America, which runs on digital cable and the satellite service EchoStar. BBCA is now available in 37 million homes, up from 28 million only last year. The channel airs BBC hits from Britain, such as Changing Rooms and The Office; it imports popular programs that other British broadcasters run, like the talk show So Graham Norton; and it's creating American spin-offs. An import called Ground Force, on which professional gardeners fix up a bloke's backyard, also airs as an American version with...
While it should nab its millionth customer by year-end, Tivo is not the market leader--EchoStar's Dish Network has more than 5 million customers. But like another consumer darling, Apple computer, TiVo has popular, sexy products. TiVo's best asset, though, is Ramsay. On the day of the "devil" panel, he proved he was unflappable and more than convincing: another panelist, then president of digital media for NBC, now works for him. --By Laura A. Locke/San Francisco