When the cable operator Cox launched its “unbelievably fair” wireless service in the U.S. a year ago, we asked right off whether the company had the scale to pick up enough subscribers to make the service profitable, in the face of an already saturated and competitive market. Today we have…

Back in November, a little-known Virginia company named Pragmatus AV sued Facebook, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG), LinkedIn, and Photobucket over patents it purchased from giant patent-holding company Intellectual Ventures. Now, Pragmatus has turned to the cable television industry for its next payout.

Cox Communications is allying with TiVo: The big cable company says it will bring its On Demand movie service, which provides subscribers with hundreds of movies they can watch, to TiVo’s Premiere DVR, which debuted in March. The two companies say the Premiere will be the “first retail product to…

It’s official: Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) will acquire a 65 percent stake in the Travel Channel from Cox Communications. The deal works like this: the two companies form a joint venture; Cox puts in the Travel Channel, valued at $975 million; Scripps contributes $181 million in cash; the JV…

Bids for Travel Channel, in the middle of a bidding process started by its parent Cox, have come in “substantially ahead of initial expectations,” according to FT, citing sources. The bids indicate that the channel could be valued at $800 million or more, higher than the $600 milion - $700…

The sale process of Cox-owned Travel Channel is heating up, as the first round of bids have come in: among them, the obvious names of News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI) and NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) are there, according to Bloomberg. Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) may bid…

Cox Enterprises, the Atlanta-based diversified media company, has sold off three of its newspapers: Waco Tribune-Herald to Robinson Media Company and The Daily Sentinel and The Nickel (Grand Junction, Colo.) to Grand Junction Media, which is owned by Seaton Publishing Co. This comes as Cox Communications, a subsidiary of parent…

As we reported earlier, vertical ad network builder Adify is being acquired by Cox Enterprises, through its subsidiary Cox TMI. Adify will operate as a wholly owned unit of Atlanta-based Cox and will continue to be headed by Russ Fradin, president and co-founder of Adify. The three-year-old Adify will remain…

Adify, the white-label online ad network, has been sold to an unlikely buyer, Cox Communications Enterprises, for about $300 million and earn out, we have learned and confirmed from sources. The San Bruno, CA based startup was out looking for funding, and had been getting some offers on the acquisition…

ABC is reporting a deal with its affiliates today that gives the network much more leeway for repurposing content across platforms and alleviates affiliate concerns about the network providing VOD to multichannel competitors. It centers on ABC’s “fast-forwarding disabled” VOD: ABC will supply network programming through a local ad-supported VOD…

It will be a while before the list of official bidders in the 700 MHz spectrum auction in the US are announced, but there are some statements out already. What is known:—Frontline will bid, which is hardly surprising since that was the whole reason the company was formed. (Wired)—AT&T (NYSE:…