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Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday that the NFL is "trying to get the facts" before deciding whether to discipline Oakland Raiders Coach Tom Cable under the league's personal conduct policy. Cable has been accused of assaulting Raiders assistant coach Randy Hanson and breaking Hanson's jaw during a training camp incident. Hanson told Yahoo Sports that Cable threatened to kill him during the alleged confrontation and, according to Hanson, knocked Hanson from a chair into a piece of furniture.

HANOI, Vietnam — A popular Vietnamese cable television provider has stopped providing CNN and BBC, saying the channels don't have the licenses needed under a law stipulating that much content on foreign channels must be translated into Vietnamese. Foreign governments and a leading pay TV trade group have urged the Vietnamese government to modify the decree, saying it is tantamount to allowing it the right to censor. Last week a small provider cut 21 foreign channels. On Sunday,...

A dissident general involved in a power struggle for control of Yemen was nearly killed last year after Yemeni officials asked Saudi Arabia to bomb his headquarters, according to a classified U.S. diplomatic cable. Saudi military forces were helping Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh quell a revolt in early 2010 by launching airstrikes against a rebellious Shiite faction known as the Houthis. But on one occasion Saudi pilots aborted a strike when they became suspicious about the target — which turned out to be the headquarters of...

A nyone who has ever gawked at the enormous inflatable shark fins atop the Discovery Communications building in downtown Silver Spring — a reminder of the Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week extravaganza — knows that the Washington area is a player in the cable television game. But less visibly, there are many other channels in offices around the region, employing hundreds of local workers who help provide entertainment for million of viewers around the world. Did you know the Travel Channel headquarters is down...

Oakland Raiders Coach Tom Cable denied a report he hit one of his team's defensive assistants in the jaw during a meeting, resulting in an injury that required treatment at a Napa, Calif., emergency room earlier this month. Cable told ESPN no punches were thrown. Several news organizations reported Monday that Raiders defensive assistant Randy Hanson was treated at a hospital following the Aug. 5 incident. The league-owned NFL Network reported Hanson told police he had been struck by another member of the team's coaching staff.

Triple play packages of cable, internet, and land-line phones are standard fare for any cable company, but Cox is looking to shake things up. The company will add cell phone service , too -- making its offering a quadruple play. Cox is working on building its own network for cell phone usage, but initially the network will be based off of a partnership with Sprint. That means that Cox customers will have access to Sprint's 3G network. The USA Today report also indicates that Cox is also testing 4G network technologies, although...

In a video clip, a TV screen in a Loudoun County living room plays an episode of the NBC show "30 Rock. " Actress Tina Fey walks down a hallway, and suddenly the image halts, her face frozen mid-sentence. The screen flickers, then dissolves into pixels. The clip is one of dozens filmed by homeowners from the Southern Walk subdivision in Ashburn and submitted to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Residents say they rarely watch television without some kind of interruption — static, a...

Of the many categories of waste in American politics, consider the resources that go into cable-TV live shots. Thousands of barrels of fossil fuel are expended hauling a person to where the cameras are or a camera to where the person is. James Carville and Mary Matalin are examples of an apparently better way. A new cable-news luxury allows them to comment, live on CNN, whether the topic is exploding oil rigs or imploding candidacies, without ever...

Blackarrow , a heavily backed developer of dynamic cable advertising has raised a big $20 million second round from past backers Cisco Systems , Inc., Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Capital, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. The company has previously raised about $18 million in two parts of what they're calling just one round, for a total raise of $38 million. The San Mateo-based company develops un-DVR-able and targeted ads, designed to account for changing...

NEW DELHI — A WikiLeaks cable suggesting Indian government payoffs to lawmakers to secure support for a controversial nuclear deal in 2008 rocked the parliament Thursday, when opposition parties demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The leaked cables, published in The Hindu newspaper, claimed that Singh's government used cash to win a crucial vote in parliament in 2008 following a debate on the controversial civilian nuclear agreement between...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Metro says a train fire at the Silver Spring station may have been started by a loose part striking a power cable. The transit agency said Wednesday that the root cause of Tuesday's fire that caused hours of delays for passengers is still under investigation. Tri-State Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Benton says damage to a "collector shoe," which conducts power between the electrified third rail and the train, may have allowed the power cable to touch a...

NEW YORK — With broadcast networks unveiling their new schedules, the television industry is focused on potential ratings hits next season. But TV programming remained largely status quo last week with CBS maintaining its decisive lead, Nielsen Co. figures showed Tuesday. CBS' decade-old smash, "NCIS," held onto the No. 1 position, drawing more than 17 million viewers. Right behind was the network's sitcom hit, "The Big Bang Theory," seen by 16 million viewers,...

NEW YORK — Aereo, the startup that offers live television broadcasts over the Internet starting at $8 a month, said it will start service in the Atlanta market on June 17, following an expansion to Boston on Wednesday. Until this week, the service had been available only in the New York City area. Aereo said Tuesday that it will offer 27 Atlanta-area broadcast channels, plus the Bloomberg TV cable channel. Service will be limited to residents of 55 counties in Georgia, Alabama and North...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Tiana Martins stepped gingerly into the red cable-car gondola, giggling from nerves as the doors slid shut, the ground dropped precipitously beneath her feet and she sailed off over the conglomerate of bare-brick shacks that is the Alemao complex of shantytowns. Three years ago, the communities below made national news as law enforcement swarmed up their narrow alleyways, sending drug dealers who'd long controlled the area scurrying. Millions watched the...

Time Warner Cable's chief executive said his company may consider capturing television content from public airwaves and delivering them to customers over an Internet connection, a practice that has shaken the entertainment industry. The idea was pioneered by a Web start-up called Aereo, whose business model sparked lawsuits from all of the nation's broadcasters, including NBC, CBS, Fox and ABC. Their complaints in courts have failed. The entry of Time Warner Cable into Aereo's...

Regarding the April 8 article " ‘Zero TV' viewers are pulling the plug on traditional television": I applaud those who watch little or no TV (including four of my own five adult children). I wish that I had the courage to join them. Despite boasting so many choices and so much availability, cable television is a huge underachiever and very expensive. We frequently joke that there are hundreds of channels but nothing to watch. The blaring commercials test the limits of one's endurance.

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 17 "Mad Men," AMC's stylish new '60s-set drama about Madison Avenue, and FX's legal thriller "Damages" made Primetime Emmy history Thursday when they became the first basic-cable shows to be nominated in a best-series competition. NBC's critically adored but ratings-starved "30 Rock" clocked 17 nominations -- the biggest haul ever for a comedy series. HBO once again racked up the most nominations -- 85 -- but all the talk was about AMC's 20 nominations: 16 for "Mad Men" and four...

As we reported in last week's earnings recap , cable operators and networks are faring better than ad-driven media companies in the recession, thanks to subscription revenue. But what about premium cable channels?surely they must be taking a hit as consumers look for monthly expenses to pare back on, right? Actually, the opposite is happening. Recent 10-K filings and financial data from research company SNL Kagan show that some of the larger premium cable networks, including HBO,...

Fix the fence It's spring at last — the perfect time to get outside and tune up the yard. For starters: How's the fence? If yours looks grungy, you might just need to scrub and hose it off, then apply a fresh coat of stain or paint. If it's wobbly or leaning, a rotted-out fence post is the likely culprit. You can replace the post, but that's a lot of work, especially if the post has a concrete anchor. For an easier solution, check out Simpson Strong Tie's Fence Mender (available at Home Depot )

Cable viewers have long complained about paying ever-higher bills for hundreds of channels they don't want to watch. Now, in a twist, some cable companies are beginning to agree. Verizon and Cablevision are publicly pressing media companies that own the programming to stop pushing them to distribute unwanted channels and instead offer cable bundles based on what viewers actually watch. If successful, the efforts could lead to cheaper options for consumers and a...