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26 Apr, 2007 8:48 pm
Time Warner Cable, Inc. v. DirecTV, Inc., 2007 WL 1138879 (S.D.N.Y.)
Time Warner sued DirecTV for false advertising under state ... to enjoin comparative advertising
about the high definition (HD) services available from DirecTV and "cable." DirecTV's ads at issue recreated a scene from Back to the Future, in which Christopher ... aggressive.
A couple of them had the snooty announcer say that hooking up a HDTV to cable was like putting cheap gas in a Ferrari, which seemed like an interesting trademark ...
20 Aug, 2008 1:45 am
... City Star and a recently filed class action lawsuit, Time Warner Cable Inc.
unfairly limits its customers' ability to access premium cable channels by forcing them to rent a cable ... &T years ago when it forced customers to rent telephones.
Time Warner is the nation's second-largest cable company, providing service to 14.7 million
customers. An interesting lawsuit. I'd expect others to follow suit against the remaining large cable companies if this lawsuit is successful. You can read more HERE.
27 Sep, 2004 10:07 am
In Monday's corporations and securities law news, Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corp. have
indicated that they may make a joint bid for bankrupt cable-television operator Adelphia Communications Corp. The bid may allow Time
Warner to swap Adelphia assets in exchange for Comcast's interest in Time Warner Cable. Comcast also announced a new plan which will reduce Comcast's interest in Time Warner
11 Apr, 2008 7:02 am
Time Warner is the world's largest media and entertainment corporation, headquartered in the USA,
with major operations in film, television, publishing, Internet service and telecommunications. Its subsidiaries include AOL, New Line Cinema, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, HBO, Turner Broadcasting
System, The CW Television Network, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Cartoon Network, CNN, and DC Comics. This scorecard tracks intellectual property
events involving Time Warner around the globe.
28 Sep 5:19 am
... at the Univ. of Southern California, Gordon Crawford of the Capital Group, which owns 7 or 8 percent of Time Warner's stock according to various media accounts, anticipates Time Warner will divest itself of its print unit, just as it has spun off its cable division and dumped America Online (AOL). Time, Inc.'s stable of 23 magazines published in the U.S. include Sports Illustrated, People and Time. The
media giant has not been spared the recession-induced misery enshrouding the print ...
28 Jul, 2006 4:41 pm
In Order FCC 06-105, the Commission approved the sale of substantially all of the cable systems and assets of Adelphia Communications Corporation to Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corporation, the exchange of certain cable systems and assets between
affiliates or...
14 Nov, 2006 2:59 pm
... the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, has issued a decision in Darby v. Time Warner
Cable, Inc. (Matter of Darby), No. 05-20931 (5th Cir. Nov. 14, 2006), which states that cable TV provider is not a utility governed by 11 U.S.C. § 366. In a ... and
we hold that the necessity of a service is what creates a "special" relationship between a debtor and a utility…"cable television is not a necessity as millions of Americans
continue to exist without such a service"… Therefore, ...
4 Mar, 2007 5:41 am
Time Warner Cable, Inc. v. DirecTV, Inc., -- F.Supp.2d --, 2007 WL 412498
(S.D.N.Y.) TWC is the second-largest cable ... literally false because of the visual exaggeration, which vastly overstated the differences between cable and DirecTV. Under
Second Circuit precedent, visual exaggeration can be literally ... order, but did enjoin DirecTV from disparaging the visual or audio quality of TWC or cable HDTV programming.
DirecTV was allowed to state that overall picture quality is superior to that of TWC ...
27 Feb 10:56 am
The Eighth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a class action in Crumley v. Time Warner Cable,
Inc., No. 08-2212 (2/25/09). Crumley alleged that Time Warner Cable overcharged its
customers in the Minneapolis area for network upgrades. She filed a class action under Minnesota's Consumer Fraud Act. The problem is that cable rates are governed by the
Cable Act of 1992, which vests regulatory authority over these rates into local franchising authorities. The filed ...
19 May 6:58 am
... 2008. The highest rating is 100. When a rating drops into the 40s, Fornell said, customers stop buying the company's products or services… Comcast's 2009 rating ties Time Warner Cable Inc.'s and is significantly higher than Charter Communications Inc.'s rating.
... for protection from creditors in Bankruptcy Court this year. Charter's rating was 51. DirecTV Group Inc., a provider of satellite TV, with 18 million customers, has the
highest rating in the category - 71." Article ...
30 Nov, 2006 3:14 pm
The Fifth Circuit Court recently ruled in Darby versus Time Warner Cable, Inc. that
cable television is not considered a utility as it is defined in the Bankruptcy Code. This means that a debtor's cable television service will not be protected after a he
or she files for bankruptcy. The court reasoned that cable is not a necessity like electricity, water, sewer and telephone which means it should not be ...
29 Nov, 2006 12:09 pm
Bob Lawless at the Credit Slips Blog ("Debtors Want Their MTV") discusses the Fifth Circuit case of Darby v. Time-Warner Cable, Inc. (In re Darby), No. 05-20931 (5th Cir. Nov. 14, 2006), in which the debtor claimed that §366 required...
31 Aug 6:01 am
... but dating to 1993, a Federal Communications Commission rule has placed limits on how big cable companies could grow: No single company could own more than ... competition
brought to the paid TV market by satellite providers such as The DirecTV Group Inc. and the Dish Network Corp. "It is apparent that the Commission either cannot or will not fully
... % national market share. Now, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and other operators could freely
acquire more cable systems without the danger of running into ...
13 Aug, 2008 1:24 pm
Miguel Helft at the NYT asks "Is Google a Media Company?" I'd thought an earlier Times article answered the question when it quoted a Google exec saying "We feel that we have ...
to have it both ways here, and will end up like a Comcast or Time Warner Cable-owning both the
essential "tubes" (or, in Google's case, the "map") of the internet, ... advocacy for net neutrality? Just as Google is afraid of having big carriers like cable companies and
telco's deprioritize its content, won't it apply those same ...
7 Jun, 2007 8:34 am
Ann Moore's dream house would apparently include parts of E.W. Scripps. In an interview with paidContent.org's Rafat Ali, Ms. Moore, the chief executive of Time Inc., briefly floated the suggestion that the Time Warner unit
might buy Scripps, the family-controlled media company whose assets include the home-and-garden cable channel HGTV. "They are very strong because [...]
10 Aug, 2007 9:58 am
Time Warner Cable, Inc. v. DirecTV, Inc., --- F.3d ----, 2007 WL 2263932 (2nd
Cir.) District court proceedings discussed here. In partially affirming the ... dispute that the highly pixelated images it used in its internet ads were inaccurate depictions of
cable picture quality, whether digital or analog. Thus, the internet ads were explicitly ... them are new, because the tech is new and expensive - knows that "ordinarily" her
cable won't be anything near that bad. But does she know what it will look ...
20 Aug, 2007 7:46 am
... make it more difficult for businesses to discern where the line is drawn with respect to advertising that attacks the competition. Time
Warner Cable, Inc. v. DirecTV, Inc., 2007 WL 2263932 (2d Cir. 2007), arose out of a dispute between Time ... to imagine that any consumer, whatever the level of sophistication, would actually be fooled by the Internet advertisements into thinking that
cable's picture quality is so poor that the image is nearly entirely obscured." While the court's expansion of the ...
6 Sep, 2007 7:11 am
... the relevant facts may seem familiar. The case arose from a dispute between Time Warner
Cable, Inc. ("TWC"), and DIRECTV relating to DIRECTV's advertising for its direct broadcast ... picture out of some fancy big screen TV without DIRECTV" and "settling for
cable would be illogical," followed by an announcer claiming that "for an HD picture that can't be beat, ... i]f you're hooking up your high-definition TV to basic cable,
you're not getting the best picture on every channel. For unparalleled clarity, ...
25 Jul 8:12 am
... Know About Puffery and How the Second Circuit Wrongly Applied It in Time Warner Cable,
Inc. v. DIRECTV, Inc., 43 New Eng. L. Rev. 357 (2009) Abstract: In Time Warner
Cable, Inc. v. DIRECTV, Time Warner Cable alleged that DIRECTV's "Source
Matters" advertising campaign, which consisted of television commercials ... modern understanding that false advertising greatly affects consumer behavior. Consequently, Time Warner Cable, Inc. v. DIRECTV illustrates the need for reform and in particular the need ...
9 Mar, 2007 10:21 am
... might otherwise constitute non-actionable puffery as actionable claims of fact. This case arose from a dispute between Time Warner Cable, Inc. ("TWC"), and DIRECTV relating to DIRECTV's advertising for its direct broadcast satellite HDTV service. ... , and "that
nothing in the text or images suggests that the grossly distorted picture quality … is not characteristic of cable service." The most noteworthy aspect of the Court's decision is
its indication that whether a claim constitutes an actionable ...
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