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Nor is it just cable companies that are being hit with higher programming costs. "We're getting a lot of pressure to increase rates at extraordinary levels," DirecTV executive Derek Chang told a trade magazine. As a satellite provider, DirecTV competes with cable companies and telcos to be the business...
But that's just for one network in one market. Similar negotiations are likely to take place in major TV markets across the country. Moonves, one of the most enthusiastic proponents of getting cable companies to pay up, has said that by 2012, he expects CBS-owned stations to garner...
However, the long-term consequences if these campaigns fail to stop tuition hikes and the failure of the UC system to achieve its educational purpose will greatly outweigh any short-term fatigue. Mark Yudof, president of the University of California, has said that departure of faculty members is his biggest...
To Sorenson, his zeal (he comes from a Pentecostal family) is what made Stumptown what it is. "We started Stumptown with the idea of getting to the source," he says. "That was the concept, and that excitement is what we wanted to bring to our customers." Every Stumptown bag has...
For Sorenson, it's all about the willingness of Americans to pay a little more. "The first day we opened [in 1999], we weren't in the position to pay what we do for a pound of coffee. But within a few years, people tasting our coffee experienced it as...