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CBS Corp and Time Warner Cable had reached an agreement to end a month long cable blackout of some shows in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles.

Time Warner Cable offered free antennas for its cable subscribers after CBS had shut down cable programs

Cablevision Systems shares jumped to 42% within an eight week period after speculations on a possible sale heated up and shareholders Paulson & Co. and Gamco Investors Inc. said that a sale is likely.

A judge approved the foremost cable systems' plan to sell their spectrum to Verizon Wireless and cross sell their individual wireless and cable plans.

CBS blocked the access of Time Warner cable's customers to online shows after the cable operator dropped it from its network.

Time Warner Cable agreed to keep CBS on air after both sides failed to agree on fees.

Time Warner Cable and CBS have yet to reach a conclusion regarding the re-transmission of CBS programming.

Charter Communications is set to work with Goldham Sachs Group for the Time Warner bid.

Warner Brothers' last minute bid for Thomas Tull failed to lure the producer; NBCUniversal succeeded.

AT&T Inc-Chernin Group and DirecTV offered Hulu LLC US$1 billion each.

Time Warner Cable stated that it would rather go into acquisitions than be bought by billionaire John Malone.

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies.

Private equity firm BC Partners and one of Canada's top pension funds are joining forces with the management of Suddenlink Communications to buy out the U.S. cable operator in a deal worth about $2.5 billion.