January 8, 2001
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PROGRAMMING
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Nets Set New Year Debuts
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Looking to tap into high HUT levels and establish viewing habits, cable networks, including Food Network and A&E, are launching new series early in the...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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The Big Picture
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PVRs vs. VOD
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They might be compatible or competitive Optical networking will play a key role in choosing the platforms of choice in 2005.Last week I finally got my...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Broadband Content
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Cable to PC a Snap
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Take CNBC, HBO or the Disney Channel directly from the cable, pipe it into your computer hard drive and replay it later for your personal pleasure -...
RICHARD COLE
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Interactive TV
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VOD Steps Up in Tampa
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Amid talk that the roll out of interactive television has slowed, 130,000 digital customers in Tampa Bay, Fla., are getting video-on-demand services...
K.C. NEEL
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Broadband
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Motorola Aspires to Multiple Delivery Methods
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When it comes to data delivery methods, Motorola's aspiration is to be agnostic.The company's new Streamaster 5000, which will work with DSL systems,...
BRIAN SANTO
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Speed Key For Commerce
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Speed is important. Maybe even worth all the expense and effort put into developing faster devices and broader pipes.One of the mouthwatering attractions...
RICHARD COLE
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Telocity, Villa Montage Test Outdoor Gateway
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Consistent with its roots in the telephony market, Telocity's 90-day technology trial for video-on-demand services with Villa Montage Systems will be...
BRIAN SANTO
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Business
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Cablevision Misses Rally
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Right about now, Cablevision Systems shareholders may well be asking: What have you done for me lately?After running up 23% in the fourth quarter, from...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Marketing & Advertising
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DBS, Modems Not Santa's Bag
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Blame it on the election. Or perhaps it was the stock market's lackluster fourth quarter. Whatever the reason, consumers failed to give as many satellite...
ANDREA FIGLER
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Between the Lines
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Marshall Plan
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A Good Rap For Cable In Demand is hoping the Real Slim Shady will stand up - in living rooms around the country Feb. 17. That's when the cable pay-per-view...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Prime Project
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Brill Will Lead Primedia Unit Steven Brill, who built and then sold Court TV in a cloud of controversy, has taken on his latest project: running a new...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Weather Report
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Does Spelling Count? What's the worst day The Weather Channel signal could go out for a cable system? The day of the biggest snowstorm in five years....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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2001 Should be a Cable Odyssey
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Ratings survive `Survivor' The broadcast rebound be damned. For all the hype around Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Survivor, the year 2000 still fell...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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AT&T's Double Dip
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Investors liked AT&T Broadband's second rate increase in less than a year a lot more than subscribers and local regulators.The jump - an average 4.8%...
K.C. NEEL
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Basic Ratings up 4% in 2000
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Basic cable, buoyed by a fourth-quarter flurry, finished 2000 with a 4% rise in average primetime household ratings.The medium recorded a 26.3 average...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Basic Ratings up 4% in 2000
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Basic cable, buoyed by a fourth-quarter flurry, finished 2000 with a 4% rise in average primetime household ratings.The medium recorded a 26.3 average...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cable Won't Shake Troubled DSL
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While new corpses of DSL resellers litter the landscape weekly, cable shouldn't gloat.Broadband analysts and industry executives say the traditional...
RICHARD COLE AND K.C. NEEL
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COVER STORY
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Laser Blazers Optical networking brings broadband delivery into a new dimension. So why aren't cable operators opting to get on board faster?Engineers...
Brian Santo
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End Seen For Rainbow Auction
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Reports of a Jan. 16 drop-dead date for potential bids to purchase Cablevision's Rainbow Media Group assets may finally bring an end to months of industry-wide...
MAVIS SCANLON
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End Seen For Rainbow Auction
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Reports of a Jan. 16 drop-dead date for potential bids to purchase Cablevision's Rainbow Media Group assets may finally bring an end to months of industry-wide...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Fox Adds New Boss, Health Net
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Expanding News Corp.'s cable operations will be part of the plan for Brian Mulligan, the new chairman of Fox Television.Mulligan will also oversee the...
ANDREA FIGLER
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High Times For DBS Could Be Blocked By Must Carry Cloud
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Local station service popular for DirectTV, EchoStar, but lawsuit could force them to live by cable rulesYou wouldn't know it by their sliding stock...
DAVID CONNELL
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Must Carry Surprise
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In a move that caught some regulatory observers by surprise, the Federal Communications Commission says it will consider a list of must carry issues...
DAVID CONNELL
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NCTA Files Pole Brief
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The National Cable Television Association filed a reply brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, reinforcing arguments that the High Court take up the association's...
DAVID CONNELL
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People
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Arbitron Ed Cohen to VP-domestic radio research from director-domestic radio research. David Oglevee to manager-Western accounts from senior training...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Tauzin In Key Post
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New House Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., has a long history of dealing with the cable industry, but he is also remembered for...
DAVID CONNELL
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