Newsroom Archive

• Suddenlink adds Fox in high def, just in time for Super Bowl (Jan. 30, 2008, Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel)
• FCC Wants to Fix Phone Fund (Jan. 29, 2008, Associated Press)
• Comcast begins Mexico calling plan in Houston (Jan. 29, 2008, Houston Business Journal)
• Phone giants' rising rates questioned (Jan. 28, 2008, USA Today)
• Comcast to roll out innovations (Jan. 8, 2008, Houston Chronicle)
• How Cable Sacked the NFL (Dec. 28, 2007, Time Magazine)
• In stare-down with Big Cable over Pats-Giants, the NFL blinked (Dec. 27, 2007)
• Cable Issue Alert (Dec. 18, 2007)
• Football and Cable TV (Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, Dec. 12, 2007)
• Roughing the cable passer (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Nov. 29, 2007)
• Shameless NFL (Nov. 22, 2007, San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Radio interview with Ron McMillan, Regional VP, Time Warner Cable (Nov, 27, 2007)
• Sorry NFL, but getting games to fans is your responsibility (Nov. 21, 2007 USA Today)
• Cable Industry News Alert (Nov. 20, 2007)
• Blitzing the FCC (Nov. 19, 2007 Wall Street Journal Editorial)
• Let the free market work for cable (Nov. 17, 2007 Columbus Dispatch)
• Cable Plays Hardball With the N.F.L. (Nov. 14, 2007 New York Times)
• Jerry Jones' playbook (Nov. 12, 2007 Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
• Note to N.F.L.: High Prices Cut Demand (Nov. 10, 2007 New York Times Column)
• Football Needs You More Than You Need Football (Nov. 9, 2007 Bloomberg)
• AT&T Trims U-Verse Rollout Estimate (Nov. 6, 2007 AAS)
• TCA Issue Alert (Nov. 6, 2007)
• Flag This Play (Oct. 31, 2007 Empower Texans)
• It's time to open up NFL Sunday Ticket to everyone (Oct. 30, 2007 ESPN)
• The day when the NFL’s greed reaches the tipping point (Oct. 25, 2007 Institute for Policy Innovation)
• Nadine Craddick and Lance Armstrong Unveil 2007 Capitol Ornament (Oct. 24, 2007 Press Release)
• Time Warner Cable extends new offer to NFL Network (Oct. 22, 2007 El Paso Times)
• Time Warner Cable NFL Network Press Release (Oct. 22, 2007)
• Nationwide Outage at AT&T's TV Service (Oct. 22, 2007 AP)
• David Hendricks: Sports fans should root for Time Warner (Oct. 17, 2007 San Antonio Express-News)
  
• Time Warner customers misled by AT&T (Oct. 17, 2007 LA Times)
• NFL Wants too Much, and Fans Pay the Price (Oct. 16, 2007 Newspaper Tree, El Paso)
• Tyler Program Promotes Internet Safety (Oct. 5, 2007 Tyler Morning Telegraph)
• Sorry, wrong number: Disconnect outdated telephone tax (Oct. 1, 2007 Amarillo Globe-News)
• Time Warner Cable expands residential service to Boerne (Sept. 26, 2007 San Antonio Business Journal)
  
• CableOne to upgrade Fouke cable television and Internet service (Sept. 19, 2007 Texarkana Gazette)
  
• Cable makes digital television switch easy (Sept. 18, 2007 Tennessean)
• State regulators cut a phone bill surcharge (September 7, 2007 LA Times)
  
• NEW TCTA Website: TCTA is launching a completely redesigned website on October 8th. The new site will have an updated look and feel, including a new logo and colors, enhanced functionality and much more information on cable industry initiatives here in Texas and around the country. Stay tuned for more information.
  
• Home to the Future. Time Warner Cable's digital showcase - highlighting the newest digital technology for the home - is coming to Texas in September and October. Click here to learn more.
  
• Comment: Legislative honesty means ending TIF toll on the taxpayer. Read June 13 op ed by Rep. Joe Straus in the San Antonio Express-News.
  
• Fund to subsidize rural phones faces dispute. Read June 13 article in St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
  
• U.S. Cable Industry Announces Landmark PointSmart.ClickSafe - Online Safety and Media Literacy Initiative. Learn more about the June 6th announcement.
  
• Study Says a La Carte Is Uneconomical, Won't Shield kids. Read June 4, 2007 article in Broadcasting & Cable.
  
• Read May 1st News Alert on Telecom Taxes
  
• Getting the wrong number on fees. Read April 30 op ed by NFIB in the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram.
  
• Texans paying some of the highest telecom taxes in nation, study shows. Read April 19, 2007 article in San Antonio Biz Journal.
  
• Complicated Phone Bills. Read April 2, 2007 Cathy comic strip.
  
• TCTA March Newsletter
  
• Legislators Should Pull Excess Taxes Off Texans. Read February 26, 2007 editorial in the Tyler Morning Telegraph.
  
• Astroturfing Congress. Read February 13, 2007 article in Forbes Magazine highlighting telecom front groups such as Consumers For Cable Choice.
  
• Phone-bill line item scrutinized. Read January 29, 2007 San Antonio Express News article.
  
• Book TV makes Laredo stop. Read January 21, 2007 article in the Laredo Morning Times.
  
• Phone subsidies no longer ring true. Read January 17, 2007 editorial in the Brazoria County Facts.
  
• Market Realities of Cable vs. Bells. Read January 16, 2007 letter in the Wall Street Journal.
  
• Video Franchise Rules Foster Discrimination. Read January 12, 2007 Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal.
  
• COMCAST ASSUMES OWNERSHIP OF HOUSTON AREA CABLE SYSTEMS Read January 2, 2007 press release.
  
• Will AT&T Seek Satellite Help? Wall Street is hinting that the carrier may need some satellite TV partners to really bring video to the masses. Read December 21, 2006 Light Reading article.