REPORT: DISH TO OFFER HIGH-SPEED INTERNET SERVICE

For years, satellite services have been held back by a significant handicap in their competition with cable providers: they have been unable to offer customers high-speed Internet services. That may be about to change. According to published reports, DISH Network plans to launch its own satellite-based broadband service by the end of the year using […]

CBS HOPES ITS SHOWTIME WILL BOOST REVENUE

CBS Corp., which depends more than any other media conglomerate on advertising for its lifeblood, is planning to expand one of its units that does not. Bloomberg News reported today (Monday) that CBS’s Showtime pay-TV channel is currently developing a video service that would be accessible only to the channel’s 18 million subscribers. A Showtime […]