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from: NY Daily News

Verizon TV proposal needs tuning

Friday, April 25th 2008, 4:00 AM

Telecom giant Verizon has finally submitted its long-awaited proposal for a competing cable television franchise for New York City.

If you live in the Bronx, Brooklyn or Queens and you're eager to ditch Time Warner or Cablevision, take a number.

from: Village Voice

Lobbying Albany: A Recession-Proof Industry
Posted by Duncan Meisel at 4:25 PM, April 17, 2008

Wall Street may be taking a beating recently, but at least one other New York industry seems recession-proof: lobbying. Once again, spending on lobbying broke records, with an all-time high of $171.2 million spent on influencing state lawmakers, according to the Commission on Public Integrity which released its annual report on lobbying of the New York State legislature.

from: Cranes New York

Verizon files to break cable monopolies

The telecommunications giant submitted a proposal that would make it the first company to offer cable TV service throughout New York City.
April 15. 2008 5:59PMBy: Amanda Fung

Verizon Communications Inc. would be the first company to offer cable TV service throughout all of New York City under a plan filed with city officials Tuesday.

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from: All Voices

Eliot Spitzer and the FCC
by Matthew Lasar San Francisco
Mar 11, 6:36 PM

The news media is having a great day with the revelation that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer paid for sex with prostitutes. Behind the scenes, corporate criminals are breaking out the champagne. As Attorney General of the Empire State, Eliot Spitzer championed the consumer and feasted on white collar crooks. Not only that, Spitzer's zeal often forced those around him in government to do their jobs better, whether they wanted to or not.

from: Long Island Business News

Cablevision fights back

By Pete Weiss

Friday, March 7, 2008

When Verizon first cracked the Long Island market with its vaunted FiOS television service, some analysts – and the company itself – predicted subscribers would leave Cablevision in droves for the phone company’s video service.

from: NY Times

N.Y. Attorney General Subpoenas Comcast on Broadband

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 26, 2008

Filed at 3:34 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York attorney general's office has requested information from Comcast Corp. on the company's handling of Internet traffic.

from: Multichannel News

Where PEG Fits In Squarely

_ At a public hearing in New York City on Jan. 17, a man stood up and told city officials about a category of local programming that is cable-exclusive.

"You're not going to find this on satellite," the man said. "You're going to find it on cable."

from: Light Reading

NYC Still Waits for FiOS
JANUARY 17, 2008

After two years, an agreement that could let Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ - message board) bring FiOS TV to New York City is getting close -- but not that close.

A recent report in the New York Daily News citing unnamed sources said that a cable franchise agreement between the City of New York and Verizon was being hammered out and that a deal was "going down now." That might not be completely accurate, however.

from: NY Daily News

Verizon deal could finally offer real competition in cable TV service

Wednesday, January 16th 2008, 4:00 AM

City officials spent Tuesday in secret talks with phone giant Verizon on a new franchise deal that could finally offer New Yorkers real competition in cable TV service.