Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

by Susan P. Crawford J. D.

  Versus, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vertical mergers and integration: AOL–Time Warner, (i), (ii); Bewkes on, (i), (ii); Comcast-NBCU, (i), (ii); distributors need to consider, (i); FCC view of, (i); Financial Interest and Syndication (fin-syn) Rules, (i); as stifling competition, (i); of TV networks, (i)

  Viacom, (i), (ii)

  Video market: AOL Time Warner and online, (i); of Comcast, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); and Comcast-NBCU merger, (i); disruption to cable industry revenues posed by, (i); as growing, (i), (ii); high-speed access as key to, (i), (ii); online streaming, (i), (ii); online video distributors (OVDs), Comcast-NBCU to license to, (i), (ii); of phone companies, (i), (ii); premium pricing of movies, (i); standardized video connections, proposal for, (i)

  Video on Demand (VOD) packages, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Vivendi, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vodafone, (i)

  VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), (i)

  Voluntary services from private carriers, (i)

  Voting trusts, (i)

  Wabash cases, (i)

  Walker, Robert, (i)

  Wall Street Journal, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Walt Disney Company: Comcast's attempt to take over, (i), (ii); negativity toward AOL–Time Warner merger, (i); negotiations with Cablevision, (i); as owner of ABC TV, (i); in programming industry, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Warner Bros., (i)

  Washington, Stanley, (i)

  Washington Post, (i), (ii)

  Waters, Maxine, (i), (ii)

  Waz, Joseph, (i)

  Weinberger, Casper, (i)

  Weir, Colin, (i)

  Welch, Jack, (i)

  Western Electric, (i), (ii)

  Western Union, (i)

  Wholesale access to high-speed services, (i), (ii)

  Williamson, Oliver, (i)

  Wireless access: auctions of additional spectrum, (i); bundled resold, (i); cable compared to wireless business, (i), (ii), (iii); as complementary service to cable, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi); and content providers, (i), (ii); entry for new players virtually impossible, (i); growth for phone companies in, (i), (ii), (iii); history of, (i); lack of government oversight, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); market structure in U.S., (i); online video over, (i); pricing, (i); similarities to cable, (i); spectrum issues, (i); subscriber fees, (i); and video traffic, (i)

  WOW!, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Wright, Bob, (i)

  Xbox, (i), (ii)

  Xfinity, (i), (ii)

  Yahoo!, (i)

  YouTube, (i), (ii)

  Zachem, Kathy, (i)

  Zucker, Jeffrey, (i); on African American–targeted programming, (i); and NBC finances, (i); on NBCU sale to Comcast, (i); ouster from NBC leadership, (i), (ii); programming continuing after his exit, (i); at Senate Antitrust Subcommittee hearing, (i), (ii), (iii); testimony on blending content and distribution (2010), (i)