Hunt Valley-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. has entered into a multi-year agreement with Comcast Corp. for the carriage of the company’s broadcast television stations, Sinclair officials announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We are pleased to announce that ...

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Internet activists took an aerial jab at Comcast to celebrate new government rules affecting the Philadelphia-based corporation. A plane towed a banner Friday past company headquarters that said, “Comcast: Don’t Mess With the Internet.” It featured a picture of Grumpy ...

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The Comcast Foundation awarded $135,000 in grants to 10 nonprofit organizations in Maryland in 2014, the foundation said Monday. The grants focused on programs that target expanding digital literacy, promoting community service and building leaders. Those who received grants are: ...

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(Bloomberg) Regulators pushed back by three weeks their informal deadline to complete consideration of Comcast Corp.’s proposed $45.2 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable Inc. U.S. officials need time to review in excess of 31,000 documents Time Warner Cable was ...

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Comcast's second-quarter net income rose 15 percent to nearly $2 billion as it added high-speed Internet customers at a faster pace and video subscriber losses moderated.

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Comcast Corp. will buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $45.2 billion in a deal that combines the nation's top two cable TV companies and would create a dominant force in both creating and delivering entertainment to U.S. homes.

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NEW YORK — Comcast, the country’s largest Internet service provider, is going to start charging extra when customers go over a certain monthly data limit. That limit, however, is very high, starting at 300 gigabytes for basic Internet plans. Only ...

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NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. will start selling home automation and security services nationwide, taking on incumbents led by Tyco International Ltd.’s ADT. The installations and services will be sold in AT&T stores, starting with a trial this summer in ...

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NEW YORK — T-Mobile USA, which just had its acquisition by AT&T blocked by regulators, is urging the federal government to block another deal in the wireless world: Verizon’s planned purchase of spectrum from cable companies for $3.9 billion. In ...

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NEW YORK — Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks. Verizon and Coinstar Inc., Redbox’s parent, said Monday that the service will be national ...

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