More than 160 cities, towns and counties opted out of Senate Bill 152, and some built their own gigabit service that was 4,000 times faster. But there were other reasons for the repeal.
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Cable industry counting on NBC’s new Peacock streaming service to keep your attention — and dollars
At the Comedy Works South in Greenwood Village in early March, cable professionals gathered to hear about the future. It came in the form of graduate students sharing what they would do if they were in charge of Peacock, the new Comcast NBCUniversal streaming service debuting for Comcast cable customers on April 15 and to […]
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The future of cable TV, an industry once driven by Colorado, may be in its past
Before pay TV’s heyday, a movement was literally afoot in Colorado. Back in 1952, insurance salesman Bill Daniels caught a glimpse of TV while traveling through Denver and ended up moving to Cherry Creek North and helping to launch an industry. For a time, Denver was the nation’s cable capital, with the three largest cable […]
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Silverman: ‘Tis the season for basketball, but we get lumps of coal from Comcast and Altitude
Tis the season. Basketball season. NBA games galore on Dec. 25. A quintuple header. Our Northwest Division-leading Nuggets will pluck the Pelicans Christmas night. Santa and ABC/ESPN are good to us on their big day. The rest of this regular season, we get lumps of coal from Comcast and Altitude Sports. Unless you have DirecTV […]
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Comcast raising local TV fees 57% in January; Altitude Sports missing from 2020 lineup
With no resolution in sight between the state’s largest cable TV provider and the channel that broadcasts Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games, Comcast is moving into 2020 without Altitude Sports and plans to increase a separate local-broadcast fee by 57%. Starting Jan. 1, Comcast will reduce its regional sports network fee in Colorado by […]
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The definitive guide to Colorado’s history-making, fan-angering, TV landscape-shifting winter sports blackout
Call it a cruel irony of our times: Just when there has never been a more exciting period to revel in the success of Colorado’s two marquee winter pro sports teams, there has never been a more daunting time to try to watch them on television. For the first time in memory, hockey’s Colorado Avalanche […]
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The disruption of local sports TV began years ago — and it’s far from done
It’s not all about Altitude. Frenemies of the Denver sports broadcasting arm of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment have been in its shoes before. Longtime partners Comcast and AT&T’s DirecTV also own regional sports networks and have felt the pain as local sports channels nationwide deal with business models some say are broken. The networks face […]
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Altitude sues Comcast, says cable provider is running Denver sports network out of business
The dispute preventing Denver Nuggets fans from watching basketball games on Comcast turned uglier Monday as Altitude Sports & Entertainment filed a lawsuit calling the cable company “anti-competitive” and trying to eliminate the Denver-based regional sports channel in order to buy it “at a dramatically discounted rate.” Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games vanished in late […]
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From Denver to Durango, public-access TV channels still face budget threat after FCC decision
Public-access channels fearing funding cuts received a temporary reprieve as the Federal Communication Commission exempted the channels while approving new rules that limit how much cities can charge cable TV providers in franchise fees. The PEG channels — short for public, educational and governmental access — are often one of the few local sources televising […]
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T-Mobile lays groundwork for 5G TV with Colorado, national rollout of a technology born in Denver
T-Mobile’s wireless TV future starts Sunday with wired internet technology from Layer3 TV, the Denver company it acquired 15 months ago. The new TVision Home looks a lot like a traditional cable TV package, with up to 275 channels and a starting price of $90 a month (plus $10 for the required set-top box). But […]