More cable news from across the web:
> Vimeo has acquired SVOD service VHX. Press release
> Around 1.5 million 4K TVs were sold in the U.S. in the first quarter of this year, bringing the total installed base to 7 million. Broadcasting & Cable story
> Glenn Beck laid off 40 employees from his media company to satisfy terms of a bank loan. The Daily Beast story
> In a filing with the FCC, the NCTA said the nine biggest cable operators have deployed 55 million CableCards to date, around the same number reported in February. Multichannel News story
> BCE, the parent company of Bell Canada, is acquiring Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) for approximately $2.5 billion (CAD $3.1 billion), enhancing its presence in the Western Canadian province with a larger wireline broadband and TV footprint. Article
> CenturyLink, FairPoint and Frontier banded together in protest of the FCC's passing of a proposal to realign the special access market, saying that it would have a detrimental effect on how service providers address Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets. Article
> Shares of America Movíl plunged nearly 12 percent last week after the carrier posted a disappointing quarter including a 17 percent year-over-year decline in EBITDA. The company lost 458,000 U.S. customers during the quarter, primarily under its TracFone and SafeLink brands, and its U.S. revenue of $1.8 billion was down 3.3 percent from the prior year. Article
And finally… TiVo has chopped $100 off the price of its Bolt DVR models, but is also not longer offering a free year of service. Zatz not Funny post