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D.C. Memo: Cable One’s Stock Crash Costs former Washington Post Owner Donald Graham about $1 Billion So Far
Graham, once CEO and Chairman of the Washington Post Co., notified the Securities and Exchange Commission that he might soon sell his entire 6.8% stake…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: On a Visit to Alaska, Carr Promises to Connect Entire State with $162 Million in New Mobile Broadband Support
‘We are committed to working with Sen. [Dan] Sullivan until we can finish the job of getting every single person in Alaska connected to high-speed…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Cable One, Escalating Debt Battle with CoBank, Challenges ‘Insolvency’ Allegation
‘For all its bluster about Cable One’s purported insolvency or near‑insolvency, CoBank does not allege, nor could it, that Cable has missed an interest…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: ‘Cable One Currently Is Insolvent,’ CoBank Alleges
U.S. District Judge blocks Cable One from buying Vyve Broadband parent Mega Broadband Investments, apparently convinced Cable One is incapable of…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Earthquake in the Sky – SpaceX Pays $8 Billion for Grain Management Airwaves to Advance Starlink Mobile
Wall Street dumps AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon shares on Grain transaction news despite repeated leadership claims by the mobile incumbents that Starlink…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: BEAD Deployments to Flood 811 System Designed to Shield Buried Gas Lines from Damage: ACLP Study
Analysts say buried routes will generate about 1.4 million 811 tickets, triggering roughly 8.1 million facility locates, most of them for service drops
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Starlink Not a Threat to Big Cable – For Now, New Street Research Says
‘The data to date shows no major impact on the wired broadband operators in the U.S., mostly because Starlink has been focused on rural markets where…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: NAB CEO Warns ‘NFL is Playing with Fire’ by Moving Games to Streaming Platforms
‘We are seeing study after study that shows the mounting consumer frustration with needing to buy a new subscription service just to follow your…
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: ALLO Fiber Sells Joplin, Missouri, Network to Lumos without Any Explanation
The deal comes after Lumos sought approval in July to build out Joplin, taking on ALLO and Cable One
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: SpaceX Has Company – Consumers’ Research Urges FCC to Fold the $4.5 Billion High Cost Fund
The FCC ‘should not extend legacy support to locations that unsubsidized providers already serve,’ Consumers’ Research Executive Director Will Hild says
 • Ted Hearn
D.C. Memo: Disney Is Fighting FCC ‘At the Wrong Time in the Wrong Court,’ Carr Says
Agency Chief Insists No Decisions Have Been Made about the License Renewal of Eight Disney-Owned ABC Stations
 • Ted Hearn

September 2026

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