After a nine-day blackout, Viacom Inc. and DirecTV Group Inc. reached a long-term deal to restore Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and other Viacom channels to DirecTV's system. Separately, Time Warner Cable and Hearst Corp. settled their contract dispute, returning Hearst broadcast channels to Time Warner Cable systems.
Terms of the agreements, as usual, were not released. But a reasonable person would say that Viacom got less than it wanted, while DirecTV paid more than it might have preferred.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Viacom, DirecTV: Time Warner Cable, Hearst Agree to Terms
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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