...Article 6 A vision Beyond Cable for Comcast After Merger If Chief executive, Brian Roberts, had his was Comcast would not be cable anymore. They have pushing more into the internet side of things. Nextflix has started paying Comcast for faster internet allowing video streaming easier to stream. Comcast wants to be more of a technology company running against Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple. They don’t want to wait for cable to die out so Comcast needs to find more ways of doing business. Time warner has business in 29 different states and Comcast and Time warner don’t cross and compete. Since they don’t cross this has no impact on competition. This merger size could end up controlling about 30 percent of the national television subscribers. This will also allow them to lower their prices to compete with Netflix. There have been some antitrust law issues which is used to protect consumers. At one point Time Warner blocked CBS and this did not go over well with their customers and they had to fall to CBS’s demands. Comcast is going to help the Time Warner customers in allowing them to gain access to their new Xfinity wireless gateway. The features of Comcast are way better than that of Time Warner, Comcast’s menu options allowed easier navigation to customers favorite content. They also have an app on smartphones to control the guide. Comcast marginally out performs Time Warner Cable, and are preparing for improvements. Saying everything will change once Xfinity service...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Problem Solution: Global Communications The first section of the problem solution focuses on the most important past events that led to the issues and opportunities listen in Table 1. This is an analysis of the situation Global Communications finds itself in. These events are not the problem of the case but are what started the problem. In the stakeholder perspectives and ethical dilemmas section you will find various stakeholders identified, their interests, rights and values. The conflicting interests, conflicting rights, and ethical dilemmas are discussed here using the information in Table 2. The problem statement section includes what Global Communication aspires to be and the range of opportunities it must seize to achieve that vision. The end-state vision section focuses on where the company would want to me in the next few years. If all the challenges overcome, all the problems were solved and all the opportunities are realized then where would Global Communications stand. The statement directly reflects the desired end state Global Communications targets. The visions statement helped formulate the end-state goals listed in Table 3. The alternative solutions section you’ll find solutions that support my problem statement. These solutions summarize the benchmarking findings related to the problem statement, the relevance of benchmarking to Global Communications and specific solutions that give us details for Global Communications findings. Analysis of alternative solutions...
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...Huston-Tillotson University Monitor Message Posting Form There are three types of monitors on campus: MTVu in the cafeteria, general pictorial outside of the cafeteria, and cable located in buildings around campus. To post on MTVu or the general pictorial monitors, contact the Office of Public Relations and Marketing. Follow the instructions below to post on the cable monitors. Cable access through television monitors is located in all buildings on the Huston-Tillotson University campus. In addition, the two residence halls are cable ready for an audience of nearly 400 students. The campus population includes nearly 1,000 students and 150 faculty and staff. The University has rights and signal connectivity within the parameter of the campus to Time Warner Cable channels 10, 11, and 17 with designations as follows: Channel 10-announcements; Channel 11-educational programming; and Channel 17-live and recorded broadcasts. Public monitors are tuned to Channel 10 daily. Content may be posted on Channel 10 at a rate of $50 a month. Faculty, staff, and students may post HT business content only at no charge. For programs on Channels 11 and 17, contact the Office of Public Relations and Marketing for rates. Files must be created utilizing a PowerPoint format. The following rules apply when creating files for posting. • Select a readable font for text and body type. • Keep sentences short. Use bullet points. • Avoid excessive capitalization and text in ALL...
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...reliance from his boss. He argues that the airline kiosk business is hurting by the web service and the only way to compete is developing the kiosk-based services which could make profit or provide more benefits. However, Frank, who is his new boss, is firmly holding the different opinion. Frank points out that the airline kiosk business presents a mature market and clients will not resign it. In addition, the hotels and car rental markets are wide open, and the company should develop these areas. Frank asserts that Tom was out of line and focus on the part not belongs to him. Advice about this dilemma is given by two experts, Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor from Stanford University and Paul Falcone, president of human resources at Time Warner Cable. Both of these experts consider that Tom should deal with this issue carefully. However, two experts obviously have different positions. While Falcone argues that Tom should follow his heart to convince his boss and it could generate the company in the right...
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...small Mortgage Brokerage Firm that provided clients with tailored mortgage loans, great customer service, and financial consultation. • Generated Sales leads and made Sales calls • Originated over 40 mortgages for home purchases and refinances (generated $55,800 in revenue for this company) • Solidified contacts with local realtors, contractors, financial advisors, and other referral sources, met with all potential borrowers, and inspected all properties for requested financing • Reviewed and analyzed loans for approval in accordance with State and lender guidelines Inbound Sales Representative April 2010- October 2010 Time Warner Cable • Handled forty inbound Service and Sales calls per day • Analyzed Consumer Needs and implemented Time Warner Cable’s Sales process • Successfully completed Time Warner Cable’s first ever training class on Signature Home Suite of products and sold product Suite in test market of Charlotte, NC and Assisted others Representatives in their training • Completed Sales Orders and entered proper coding Data Analyst February 2009 – February 2010 Research Triangle Institute/HR Directions Raleigh, NC –A nonprofit institution whose mission is to improve the human condition through conducting studies for organizations such as the Department of Education. • Provided quality control analysis for over 8,000 student transcripts • Responsible for Data Receipt and Uploaded 475 student transcripts, Parsed...
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...Service Company Analysis - Time Warner Cable Table of Contents Background Page 3 Nature of Services Provided Page 4 Service Culture Page 4 Competition and Strategy Pages 4 and 5 Service Blueprint Pages 5 and 6 Social Media Page 7 Level Capacity Pages 7 and 8 Sustainability Strategy Page 8 SWOT Pages 9 and 10 Recommendations Pages 10 and 11 Bibliography Page 12 Background The beginning of Time Warner Cable (TWC) can be traced back to 1968 when American Television and Communications (ATC) was founded. Later, between 1973 and 1978, Time Inc. acquired 100% of ATC and Warner Communications formed Warner Cable. In 1989, the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Cable was announced, later becoming what we know today as Time Warner Cable. As noted on the company’s website 1, Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) is among the largest providers of video, high-speed data and voice services in the United States, connecting more than 15 million customers to entertainment, information and each other. They currently operate in 29 states and have over 51,000 employees. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers data, video and voice services to businesses of all sizes, cell tower backhaul services to wireless carriers and managed and outsourced information technology solutions and cloud services. Time Warner Cable Media, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and...
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...Synopsis of Adelphia Communication Issue in the Scenario that is facing the company Adelphia Communications was a publicly held company owned mostly by the founder John Rigas and his family. Adelphia had a board of directors the consisted of nine people, five of them appointed by the Rigas. Over a five year period of time the Rigas family “loaned” $3.1 billion dollars from Adelphia. This was $800 million more than what was initially reported during an SEC investigation (Patsuris, 2002). These “loans” financed everything from real estate ventures, airplanes, country club memberships, and operating the Buffalo Sabres hockey team. The Board of Directors fired the auditor of the company, Deloitte & Touche, when they began to question some inconsistencies found during an audit (Farrell, 2002). Ironically, Adelphia sued Deloitte & Touche for incompetence. If Adelphia’s board of directors had been independent, the board would have had to rely on reports from management, external auditors and consultants, in order to determine the company’s status. Unfortunately, Adelphia’s board was so packed with insiders it was hardly in this position. Company response to the issue Soon after the termination of Deloitte, PriceWaterhouseCoopers was selected as the new auditor for Adelphia. The first step for PWC was to re-audit previous year’s financial statements. Two weeks after the hiring of PWC, Adelphia filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection and was able to secure $1.5 billion...
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...Comcast Corporation Toya Jones Devry Univesity Comcast Corporation Comcast Corporation, with its headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest provider of both cable and home internet services in the US, and remains the world largest communication and mass media organization in terms of revenue. In addition, the company boasts of being the third in the country as far as provision of telephone services is concerned (Hovav & Popoviciu, 2009). The company provides its services to both commercial and residential customers within 40 states in the US as well as the District of Columbia. Comcast equally trades in television and film content production, together with the cable channels and national channels, the main film studio Universal and Universal Pictures. The company commands a significant share in digital distribution, especially after merging with Time Warner Cable. Strengths On the other hand, the company enjoys relatively low competition in most of its service areas due to the low competitive power of the other cable providers in the industry. Such dominance is also enhanced by the negotiating power of Comcast vested in its large ISP. Many have suggested that Comcast could possibly leverage peering agreements that are paid to influence an unfair end-user speed of connection (Kenney, 2011). Every business venture would wish to exert dominance in the industry and Comcast is no difference. Its incumbency in the business, together with the...
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...fraudulent acts are usually premeditated and happen over long periods of time. It can start with anyone stealing a few dollars taken here and there and then it can evolve into intricate plans which can defraud the companies millions, even billions of dollars. This is something that happened with the Adelphia Communications Corp. in the early 2000's. John Rigas, founder and former CEO of Adelphia, and his two sons, Timothy and Michael Rigas, along with the former assistant treasurer, Michael Mulcahey, were all arrested for defrauding Adelphia out of millions of dollars. All four of the defendants were charged with conspiracy, bank, securities and wire fraud. Only John Rigas and his and his son Timothy were actually found guilty on 18 out of the 23 charges filed against them and were facing sentences up to 30 years in jail. Michael Rigas was found not guilty on six of the charges, but the jury was undecided on the other 17. As for Mulcahey, he was found not guilty on all 23 charges (Adelphia Founder). "John Rigas is serving 15 years in a federal prison, while his son Timothy is serving a 20 year sentence" (John). Adelphia all started in "1951 when John Rigas paid $72,000 for a movie theater that was no longer being used in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. The next year he spent $300 for a local cable franchise" (Adelphia Timeline). That's all it took for him to start up a company that little did he know at the time that it would become a multi-million dollar corporation. His brother...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Running head: MEDIA Power of Media Random Student Jones International University The company that I currently work for relies on media in its daily operations. Time Warner Cable is a cable company here in central Florida. Just a few months ago the contract with Fox Networks was expiring and both TWC and Fox Networks were under negotiation to renew the contract. As the deadline came closer and closer Fox Networks started to apply pressure on TWC through the media. Fox started local radio ads warning customers that Fox Networks is in danger of not being shown on TWC, and urged customers to call TWC and tell them to keep Fox Networks on their televisions. Fox even went as far as setting up a eight hundred number that automatically forwarded to the TWC call centers. The call volume was amazing and often two hundred to three hundred people would be on hold at any given time. Billboards went up all over town, warning customers that they had other choices such as satellite if they still wanted to watch Fox stations here in central Florida. Local Fox stations ran commercials during their shows and had tickers across the bottom of the screen again urging customers to call TWC and tell them you want Fox or will cancel their service. TWC quickly rebutted with Ads of their own letting customers know that they were working with Fox Networks to resolve this issue and the reason behind this negation was because Fox wanted a significant amount more money to renew their contract...
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...use ninety thousand dollars towards National Grid to keep the heat and electricity running for five years. Another thing that I would want the money spent on would be to get new carpeting throughout the entire facility. The facility has wall to wall carpeting in almost every single room in the building. I would want five thousand dollars spent on a contractor to do the job, and fifty thousand dollars on the carpet. I want the best possible carpet there is in the facility. Some more things that I want the money spent on are electronics. I mean things like televisions for every apartment, vacuums, alarm clocks, air conditioners and more. I would also want thirty thousand dollars spent towards Time Warner Cable so that each apartment in the Family Life Center will have cable for five years and that there would be wireless internet for all of the...
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...Briefly describe the selected negotiation. AT&T, the second largest mobile provider, has very recently reached an agreement to purchase the media conglomerate Time Warner Inc for more than $85 million. This union comes only two years after AT&T acquired DirectTV, the nation’s largest satellite television provider. The two companies have been in talks about the possible merger since August. This merger will give AT&T, which falls second to Verizon in the mobile phone industry, entrance in the world of media and entertainment. Examine the issues versus the interests of the parties involved. Determine how this difference affected the negotiation. This merger could make AT&T an entertainment empire. The AT&T and Time Warner union comes...
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...The $84.5 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger should be denied by the federal government for multiple reasons. Based on what what I have learned about white collar crime and the media deal between the two telecommunication companies, this merger is a deal that could put the company at risk of committing white collar crimes. Both AT&T and Time Warner are already big corporations in the media industry, and their union will make even fewer titans. It will lead to a huge amount of power for AT&T and will be in violation of anti-trust laws set forth by the government itself. This deal is not in the public interest and federal regulators should scrutinize this deal and consider the effect it will have on smaller telecommunication businesses, consumers, and employees. Time Warner owns popular media companies such as CNN, HBO, and Warner Bros. Studios. AT&T is a major provider of telephone, internet and cable services across the nation. Both of these companies are incredibly large and prosperous on their own. Together, they would make the few number of companies that dominate the telecommunications market even smaller. This could have a negative effect on the free-market economy if they use this power to monopolize the market. This is exactly what Anti-trust laws were designed to prevent. The Clayton Act, an...
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