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Biography for Steve Donohue

Steve Donohue is editor of FierceCable. He has covered the cable industry, Internet video and the interactive television business since 1996 for several industry publications, including Multichannel News, Light Reading, Electronic Media, CableFAX Daily and Interactive TV Today. Donohue began covering cable TV and the Internet business in 1996 at CableFAX Daily and Internet Week in Washington, D.C., where his beats included Capitol Hill and the FCC. He moved to New York in 1998, where he covered the international TV business and the cable industry at Electronic Media. He joined Multichannel News two years later, and spent eight years there as national editor and editor of digital news. Donohue attended the CTAM U executive management program at Harvard Business School in 2001, and is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University, where he studied journalism and political science. He can be reached at sdonohue@fiercemarkets.com.

Articles by Steve Donohue

Clearwire gets $1.6B in funding through Sprint deal

Broadband wireless provider Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) said it struck a deal with Sprint which will give it access to $1.6 billion in funding and help it establish usage-based pricing for its WiMAX

CenturyLink to impose usage caps on high-speed Internet subscribers

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) plans to impose usage caps on its high-speed Internet subscribers in February, and warns that it may drop subscribers who repeatedly exceed its usage allowances. Similar to a

Miso raises $4M from Google, Hearst; social TV provider eyes cable deals

Miso, the social TV platform provider that has deals with DirecTV (Nasdaq: DTV) and AT&T's (NYSE: T) U-verse TV, said it raised $4 million in financing from Khosla Ventures, Google Ventures (

Q&A with Datalink CEO Paul Lidsky

In today's spotlight, FierceTelecom managing editor Samantha Bookman interviews Datalink CEO Paul Lidsky about how demand for cloud services is driving growth for the data center sector. "I think

Hearst says it may pull stations from AT&T, Charter, SureWest subscribers

With its retransmission-consent agreements with several cable MSOs set to expire on Dec. 31, TV stations owned by Hearst Television are beginning to warn viewers in the Sacramento, Calif., area that

SeaChange stock slides on management change and reduced earnings estimates

Shares in video-on-demand technology vendor SeaChange International (Nasdaq: SEAC) were trading lower Thursday morning, hours after the company announced that founder and CEO Bill Styslinger had

Moffett: Major MSOs will pursue usage-based broadband billing

With more cable subscribers relying on online video from Netflix and other online video providers, cable MSOs will begin adopting usage-based billing for broadband subscribers, Sandford C. Bernstein

'Echo Boomers' blowing up pay-TV model as they embrace online video

FierceOnlineVideo editor Jim O'Neill takes a look at how pay TV providers can reach the Echo Boomer generation, many of whom are shunning pay TV subscriptions. While some analysts have said cable

Cable operators back cyber security bill

Cable lobbyists say they will support a cyber security bill that was introduced by the House Thursday which could see Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) and other cable MSOs share

Rogers tests a la carte programming packages

Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI) is beginning to pitch subscribers in London, Ontario, a $20 monthly package that includes about 40 cable channels. Subscribers can then choose to buy more packages