When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In response to a Congressional mandate, the FCC recently inquired whether satellite and cable TV ...

Call it a cable squeeze play. Cable television networks may be the most lucrative divisions of many large media companies, but the networks are beginning to feel the pinch of dramatically higher ...

Original cable programming once again demonstrated its increasing dominance of television at tonight's Emmy Awards. These cable and non-broadcast shows -- especially the dramas -- aren't necessarily ...

Cable TV operators will no longer be able to withhold sporting events and other popular programming that they own from satellite providers and other rivals. The Federal Communications Commission voted ...

Versant, the new home for NBCUniversal cable networks being spun off from Comcast, will use USA Sports as the umbrella brand ...

WASHINGTON — Soaring TV programming costs — combined with a slowly shrinking base of video subscribers — could drive a new wave of cable operator mergers, according to a panel of Wall Street analysts.

The commission votes Wednesday to end the "terrestrial loophole" that allowed cable operators to refuse local sports programming access to competitors. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News ...

The tyranny of the cable box may soon see its end. Those expensive boxes have long been the only means through which people can watch TV if they want anything aside from basic. That’s given cable ...

Summertime has, at least temporarily, eclipsed fall as the season during which to debut the most buzzed-over original shows. By Ray Richmond, The Associated Press If there is a sea change in store for ...

Mad Men comes back for its sixth season Sunday at an opportune moment for basic cable. Last weekend, 25 million viewers combined watched The Bible and The Walking Dead on basic cable channels. That's ...