Bloomberg BNA: Lydia Beyoud on cable's day on the Hill
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 10 June 2016
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | When you get your news from Bloomberg, you don't just get the story. You get the story behind the story. |
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| 0:16.2 | You get context. |
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| 0:28.7 | June 23rd is the Brexit vote. It's also the day where we all pick ourselves off the floor laughing hysterically |
| 0:38.3 | is cable TV providers testified at Congress about customer service and billing practices. |
| 0:46.6 | The Comedy Act that is, Lydia Bayouen is with Bloomberg B&A where she writes detailed, |
| 0:52.4 | hyper detailed reports on this comedy. |
| 0:55.0 | Come on Liddy, you're the only one that's not going to be looking at the Brexit vote. |
| 0:59.5 | These guys are going to go in front of Congress and say they give customer service. |
| 1:03.0 | Is that what I'm hearing? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, what's happening is the Senate Permanent Subcommittee for Investigation |
| 1:09.6 | launched some subpoenas and investigation last year into all the major cable and |
| 1:15.1 | satellite TV companies you know and finally a year later they're getting their |
| 1:19.8 | hearing and yes they're probably going to say that they offer good customer service |
| 1:24.2 | that they face tough financial times that are leading to rising rates and |
| 1:28.9 | cord cutting and cord shaving is contributing to that but you can guess that |
| 1:34.8 | senator clair makascal uh... who the democrat from the lari is |
| 1:38.5 | kind of leading this investigation uh... and the hearing although it's been |
| 1:42.0 | pitched as a bipartisan effort with the subcommittee's |
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