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Meridian, Mississippi, (i), (ii)
Michigan public, educational, and governmental (PEG) channels, (i)
Microsoft, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
“Middle mile” optical fiber backbone installations, (i)
Minorities, (i), (ii), (iii)
Mississippi, Comcast in, (i), (ii), (iii)
MLB (Major League Baseball), (i), (ii)
Modified Final Judgment (MFJ, 1984), (i)
Moffett, Craig, (i), (ii)
Moonves, Leslie, (i)
Morgan, J. Pierpont, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Morris, Edmund, (i), (ii)
Mozy, (i)
MSNBC, (i), (ii), (iii)
Municipalities: cable franchises, (i); fiber and high-speed Internet access provided locally, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Murdoch, Rupert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Muzak, (i), (ii)
NAACP, (i)
National Broadband Plan, (i), (ii), (iii)
National Cable & Telecommunications Association, (i)
National Cable Television Cooperative, (i)
National Coalition of African American Owned Media, (i)
NBA (National Basketball Association), (i)
NBC Sports Network, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
NBC Universal (NBCU): African American charges that programming lacked diversity, (i); Chiller network, (i); description of business of, (i), (ii); financial analysis of business, (i), (ii), (iii); General Electric as owner of, (i), (ii); history of, (i); history of sports programming on, (i); negativity toward AOL–Time Warner merger, (i), (ii); programming assets of, (i), (ii), (iii); and retransmission consent, (i); video viewed online, market share of, (i). See also Merger of Comcast and NBCU
Netflix: business of, (i), (ii); in Canada, (i); challenges facing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and distribution requirements, (i); effect of usage-based pricing on, (i); and last-mile network providers, (i); Level 3 deal with, (i); negotiations to join Video on Demand packages, (i); revenues, (i); and usage caps, (i)
Net neutrality fights, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Netscape, (i)
News Corp., (i), (ii)
New York Evening Post, (i)
New York Post, (i)
New York Times, (i), (ii), (iii)
NFL (National Football League), (i), (ii), (iii)
NFL Network, (i), (ii)
NHL (National Hockey League), (i), (ii)
Nickles, Don, (i)
Nielsen, (i)
Nixon, Richard, (i), (ii)
Noam, Eli, (i)
North Carolina's “level playing field” bill, (i)
Northern Pacific Railway, (i), (ii), (iii)
Northern Securities v. United States (1904), (i)
NYNEX, (i), (ii)
Obama, Barack, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
Olympics, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
OneUnited, (i)
Online video. See Video market
Overbuilders, (i). See also RCN
Pacific Railway Act (1862), (i)
Pacific Telesis, (i), (ii)
Paramount, (i)
Paramount case (1948), (i)
Parsons, Patrick R., (i)
Patrick, Dennis, (i)
PCS (Personal Communications Services) auction, (i)
Peak-load usage, charging for, (i)
Peering relationships, (i), (ii)
Pepper, Robert, (i)
Philadelphia: Cohen and Rendell in, (i); Comcast's home market in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and sports programming, (i)
Philadelphia Business Journal, (i)
Phillips, Damon, (i)
Phone companies. See Telephone industry
Pickering, Chip, (i)
Pilson, Neal, (i)
Pogue, David, (i)
Pole attachments, (i), (ii), (iii)
Political contributions, effect of, (i), (ii), (iii)
PolitickerPA, (i)
Politico, (i)
Populist Party, (i)
Portland Trail Blazers, (i), (ii)
Postal Telegraph Company, (i)
Powell, Michael, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Prayer for the City (Bissinger), (i)
Prewitt, Jean, (i)
Price, Monroe, (i)
Prodigy, (i), (ii), (iii)
Programming. See Content; Independent programming; Sports programming; specific networks
“Project Symphony,” (i)
Public-interest advocates. See Consumer advocates
Public Knowledge, (i)
QuantumLink, (i)
QVC, (i), (ii)
Railroad industry, (i), (ii), (iii); congressional guarantee of land grants and loans to, (i); drawbacks, (i); farmers protesting charges of, (i), (ii), (iii); federally funded national railroad not possible, (i); growth (1860–90), (i); ICC regulation of, (i); initial regulatory oversight of, (i); mergers blocked (1909–1940s), (i); short haul–long haul discrimination prohibited, (i), (ii); state and local assistance for, (i); trusts in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Rasmussen, Bill, (i)
RCA (Radio Corporation of America), (i)
RCN (cable provider), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Reasonable network management, (i), (ii)
Recommendations, (i); Comcast's conflict of interest in terms of country as a whole, (i); fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service, (i); high-speed access in U.S. homes, (i); municipal networks, (i); open access to all ISPs, (i); for political leadership, (i); for regulatory oversight, (i), (ii); utility model, (i)
Record industry, (i), (ii)
Redstone, Sumner, (i)
Reel Grrls, (i)
Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), (i), (ii), (iii)
Regional sports networks (RSNs), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Regulatory structure, (i); of electricity and other utilities, (i); posing no threat to Comcast, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); recommendations for, (i); telecommunications industry without government oversight, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii). See also Common-carriage regulation
Rendell, Ed, (i), (ii)
Republicans, (i), (ii), (iii)
Retransmission consent of broadcasters, (i), (ii)
Reuters, (i)
Reverse billing proposed by AT&T, (i)
Rich-poor gap: Comcast-NBCU merger conditions aimed at, (i); in high-speed Internet access, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); in wireless access, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Roberts, Brian Leon, (i), (ii), (iii); background and character of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); on Comcast-NBCU merger, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii); on Comcast's future business, (i), (ii); on Comcast's positive competitive position, (i); on delivery across multiple devices, (i); on high-speed Internet access, (i); on Hulu revenues, (i); influence in sport business, (i); on leak about NBCU merger, (i); meeting on NBCU deal, (i); on minority programming, (i); on NBC's Zucker, (i); on Netflix, (i), (ii); in NFL negotiations for sports programming, (i); on retransmission consent, (i); at Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Specter meetings with, (i); voting stock in Comcast, (i). See also Comcast
Roberts, Ralph: Brian named successor to, (i); on cable industry's potential, (i); character of, (i); as founder of Comcast, (i), (ii); meeting on NBCU deal, (i); at NBCU town meeting following merger, (i); on sale of Florida cable franchises, (i); at Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing, (i), (ii); start in cable business, (i); transfer of voting stock to son Brian, (i)
Robichaux, Mark, (i), (ii)
Rockefeller, John D.: attacks on T. Roosevelt, (i), (ii); avoiding unpleasant hearings, (i); justifying corporate earnings, (i); political influence of, (i); similarity to B. Roberts, (i); similarity to cable distributors, (i); trust formed by, (i); working with railroad barons, (i), (ii)
Rodino, Peter, (i)
Roku, (i)
Roosevelt, Franklin D., (i)
Roosevelt, T
heodore, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Rosston, Gregory, (i)
RSNs. See Regional sports networks
“Rule of reason” approach to mergers, (i)
Rural areas: AT&T–T-Mobile merger effect on, (i); and digital divide, (i), (ii), (iii); fiber build-out not to include, (i); Internet access in, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Rush, Bobby, (i), (ii)
Sanders, Bernie, (i), (ii)
Sandomir, Richard, (i)
San Francisco, Comcast in, (i), (ii)
Satellite-service providers, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
SBC, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Scalia, Antonin, (i)
Schumer, Charles, (i)
Schwartzman, Andy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Scripps, (i), (ii)
Seidenberg, Ivan, (i)
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing (2010), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)
Shammo, Francis, (i)
Shanoff, Dan, (i), (ii)
Shell, Jeff, (i)
Sherin, Keith, (i)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Silver, Josh, (i)
Sirius-XM satellite radio merger, (i), (ii), (iii)
Sloan, Allan, (i)
Smartphones, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Smith, E. Stratford, (i)
SNL Kagan: on Comcast growth, (i); on discontinued pay-TV subscriptions, (i); on NBC finances, (i); on retransmission fees, (i)
Solomon, Norman, (i)
Southwestern Cable, (i)
“Specialized services,” (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Specter, Arlen, (i), (ii), (iii)
Spiwak, Lawrence, (i)
Sports Business Journal, (i), (ii)
Sports programming, (i); Bowl Championship Series, (i); and Comcast's competitor providers, (i), (ii); and Comcast's dominance after merger, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and Comcast's premerger holdings, (i); history of, (i), (ii), (iii); importance as revenue producer, (i); NBC affiliates’ concerns over merger's effect, (i); NBC assets, (i), (ii); and pricing model, (i); and satellite companies, (i); Verizon's complaints about Comcast's practices, (i). See also ESPN; Olympics; Regional sports networks; specific sports leagues
Sprint, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Standard Oil, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Starr, Paul, (i)
Starz, (i), (ii), (iii)
Stephenson, Randall, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Steyer, Jim, (i)
Storer Communications acquisition, (i), (ii)
Streaming video, (i), (ii), (iii)
Subscription-content model, (i). See also Sports programming
Summer of Love (1997), (i), (ii)
Supreme Court, U.S.: on cable-modem service not subject to common-carriage regulation, (i); on copyright noninfringement by cable systems, (i); on FCC's broad powers, (i); on movie studios’ divestiture of theater chains, (i); on restraint of competition in railway industry, (i); ruling against ICC (1887–1905), (i); on sugar trust, (i)
Surface Transportation Board, (i)
Swift-Tauke bill (proposed 1987), (i)
Swisher, Kara, (i)
Syfy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Taft, William Howard, (i)
Tagliabue, Paul, (i)
Tauzin, Billy, (i)
TBS, (i)
TCI (Tele-Communications, Inc.), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
TechDirt, (i)
Telco pay-TV packages, (i)
Telecommunications Act (1996), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); reclassification of high-speed Internet access, (i)
Telemundo, (i), (ii)
Telephone industry: access fees for online services sought by (1987), (i); becoming obsolete, (i); competition with cable business prohibited, (i); and dial-up service for Internet access, (i); discriminatory practices of Bell Telephone, (i); DSL service, (i); entering video market, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); fear of cable industry, (i); legislation (1996) allowing to compete with cable, (i); local phone markets, (i), (ii), (iii); regulation of, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also Wireless access; specific companies
Teleport, (i)
Television History–The First 75 Years, (i)
Television stations: competing with cable operators, (i); conventional revenues, (i); history of, (i); NBC network affiliates, reaction to Comcast-NBCU merger, (i)
There Must Be a Pony in Here Someplace (Swisher), (i)
30 Rock, (i), (ii), (iii)
3G standards, (i)
Time Warner: and Adelphia bankruptcy, (i); alignment with Comcast, (i); clustering of customers, (i), (ii); compared to Comcast, (i); cooperation by not competing, (i); customer base, size of, (i); ISPs seeking competitive terms from, (i); market share of cable industry, (i); opposition to local high-speed networks, (i); profit margins of, (i); in programming industry, (i), (ii), (iii); retransmission negotiations with Fox, (i); and sports programming, (i); in Verizon deal for joint marketing with Comcast, (i), (ii). See also AOL–Time Warner
Time Warner Cable, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Tisch, Larry, (i)
T-Mobile, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv). See also Merger of AT&T and T-Mobile
Topolski, Robb, (i)
Transportation Act (1920), (i)
Trans-Video Corporation, (i)
Triple-play packages, (i)
TV Everywhere: Comcast's focus on, (i), (ii), (iii); and content business, (i), (ii); effect on competition, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); FCC's attitude toward, (i); genius of, (i); labeling as “specialized service,” (i); and sports programming, (i), (ii). See also Xfinity
TV One, (i)
2G standards, (i)
Union Pacific Railroad, (i)
United States: communications business in 2012 in, (i); falling behind internationally in communications, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Universal Service Fund federally subsidized wireless services for the poor, (i)
Universal Studios, (i), (ii)
Usage-based billing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
USA Network, (i), (ii), (iii)
U.S. Steel, (i)
Utility services, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
U-verse fiber-to-the-neighborhood service, (i), (ii)
Vail, Theodore, (i)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, (i), (ii)
Varney, Christine, (i)
Verizon: acquisition of MCI, (i); and auctions of low-frequency spectrum, (i), (ii); Broadband Internet Access Policy Statement, agreement to, (i); in cellphone market, (i); cooperation by not competing, (i); emergence of, (i), (ii), (iii); ending unlimited data plans, (i); FiOS fiber-optic service, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii); inability to compete with cable industry, (i); and installation of high-speed access across fiber-optic lines, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); joint marketing agreement with Comcast and Time Warner, (i), (ii), (iii); market share of wireless industry, (i), (ii), (iii); pay-TV business attempt of, (i); pricing of wireless service, (i); seeking release from obligation to provide phone service to all Americans, (i); and smartphones, (i), (ii); on sports programming, (i); suit against Comcast (2010), (i); wireline compared to wireless business, (i). See also Wireless access