The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether providers are giving misleading information related the move of analog channels to digital service.

The nation’s largest cable operator reported a 38 percent increase in third-quarter earnings, helped by a sharp decline in capital spending and higher cable TV rates.

The suggestion was meant as a slap at LIN TV, which owns 15 stations that were, until Thursday, retransmitted to Time Warner Cable’s customers.

On every channel, journalists were struggling with questions that were flummoxing the viewers and the best minds on Wall Street and in Washington.

The DirecTV Group agreed to sell television programming through AT&T as part of discounted packages of services that include Internet access and phone calling, the companies said.

Liberty’s 50 percent stake in DirecTV will account for more than 80 percent of the value of a new company that will also include other Liberty assets.

The cable industry has introduced an experimental political channel that gives advertisers a uniform way to buy time and measure the number of people watching.

The cable industry has introduced an experimental political channel that gives advertisers a uniform way to buy time and measure the number of people watching.

The cable industry has introduced an experimental political channel that gives advertisers a uniform way to buy time and measure the number of people watching.

MSNBC is removing the longtime host Dan Abrams — its onetime general manager — from his 9 p.m. program and replacing him with Rachel Maddow.