Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer said his company is not looking to acquire any Internet companies at the present time, Reuters reports. [Reuters]
Now that Comcast has made a carriage deal with the Big Ten Network, attention turns to Time Warner Cable. [Cleveland.com]
Cox Communications leads the small/midsize business segment in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2008 Major Provider Business Telecommunications Study, performing particularly well in five of six factors: performance and reliability; sales representatives/account executives; billing; cost of service; and customer service.
Nice work by the Rainbow PR staff, getting a huge story about Mad Men into this Sunday's NY Times Magazine, which you can read now via the miracle of the Internet. [NYTM]
A condo development project in Los Angeles may lead to a shutdown of the legendary recording studios in the Capitol Records tower. [Los Angeles Times]
The results are in from our latest Cable360 poll question, “Which political party are cable operators, satellite distributors and telcos more likely to contribute to in the general election for the presidency?”: 45% of respondents said the companies are more likely to contribute to the Republican party, 27% said the Democratic party and 28% said they were likely to contribute to both parties equally.
Go to Cable360.net to respond to the new poll question: Tech bloggers are harder on which company, Comcast or Verizon?
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