January 15, 2001
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PROGRAMMING
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Sci Fi Beams To Monday
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Buoyed by success on Fridays, Sci Fi is boldly venturing where it hasn't gone before - to a second night of original programming on Mondays.Sci Fi, now...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cover Story
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THE TANGLED VINES OF TV OWNERSHIP
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Will a free-market-oriented Bush administration give rival media companies free rein to tighten their ties?When TiVo's heavyweight media investors gather...
MAVIS SCANLON
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The Big Picture
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The Ties That Bind
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Deregulatory policies cut both ways In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned to "beware of foreign entanglements."They can be pretty tough here...
ANDY GROSSMAN
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Broadband Content
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PCs Not Hurting Viewership
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Americans are back in their living rooms watching television, despite their flirtation with personal computers and the Internet.That's one message in...
RICHARD COLE
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Web Window On Weather
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Everybody talks about the weather, but it took the Internet to do something about it.A blizzard of statistics show that weather is one of the Web's star...
RICHARD COLE
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Interactive TV
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Not Too Interactive, Please
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Interactive services are becoming more popular with consumers, but the most desirable services available today are based in traditional TV watching methods...
K.C. NEEL
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Broadband
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C-Cube's DoMiNo Decoder Integrates Media Formats
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The vision of a networked home connected to the Internet has a lot of people excited. There's just one little problem - the babel of compression types,...
BRIAN SANTO
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Digital Signal Processors Come of Age
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Looking back at the history of programmable chips - in a lecture available on the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) Web site at www.scte.org...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Help Managing Net Upgrades
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Upgrading the physical elements of a broadband network to provide new voice services is only half the battle. Once the equipment is installed, voice...
BRIAN SANTO
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More Routers Needed For Multiple ISPs
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The ISP access agreement imposed on the AOL Time Warner merger could be an unexpected windfall for router companies.There are several ways to provide...
BRIAN SANTO
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Peak Offers IP Help
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What do you know about IP networks? Enough to get one of your own operational within weeks? Didn't think so.Startup Peak XV Networks has assembled a...
BRIAN SANTO
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Business
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Cash Flow Helps Cable Debt Market
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A rash of recent debt issues from cable and media companies proves the capital markets remain open to those businesses with cash flow and revenue growth...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Modem Unit Sees Slowing
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Broadband communications was the bright spot in Motorola's otherwise disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report, but the company warned of a sequential...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Marketing & Advertising
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CAB: Cable May Evade Ad Slump
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Even a recession won't halt cable's double-digit ad growth.Joe Ostrow, president of the Cabletelevision Ad Bureau (CAB), points to several factors, and,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Looking For Pop Stars
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Still working to push away from its country-western roots, TNN: The National Network is offering viewers a chance to showcase their special talents via...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Between the Lines
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Go Hawaiian
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Partying With Isaak He made female critics swoon at last summer's TCA tour - one reporter even asked him out - despite the fact he was appearing before...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Rock The Vote
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No MTV Hail to the Chief In 1993 and then in 1997, MTV rocked the White House with inaugural balls in honor of the Clinton presidency.Who could forget...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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Can AOL Conquer Cable?
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What now?With its acquisition of Time Warner approved after a year-long review, America Online faces the tough task of finding effective ways to use...
DAVID CONNELL
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Cities, Courts and MSOs Grapple Over Franchise Fees
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Pandora's box.That's what the open access issue has become for operators and cities in nine western U.S. states, where Cox Communications and AT&T Broadband...
K.C. NEEL
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DBS Prices on the Rise, Too
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DBS is being forced to face the same unpleasant reality as its cable rivals.A recently announced 10% rate increase by EchoStar Communications serves...
ANDREA FIGLER
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Engineers Need Broader View
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Looking beyond cable O.k., I know the Emerging Technologies Conference in New Orleans last week was by and for the Society for Cable Telecommunications...
BRIAN SANTO
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FCC Punts on DTV
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It seemed appropriate that on the day Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard bid his colleagues an emotional adieu, the regulatory...
DAVID CONNELL
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Fox Taking Interactive Plunge
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Fox Television plans to debut two new interactive channels as early as the end of this quarter, a bold move that could backfire if consumer interest...
ANDREA FIGLER
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Gates Gets Bullish on Broadband
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates got bullish on broadband last week, saying that both the PC and the TV industries will need the high-speed communications...
ANDREA FIGLER
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In Demand's PPV Prince
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Odyssey Network is giving In Demand the first peek at The Prince and the Pauper.The $6 million movie, produced by Hallmark Entertainment, will debut...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Only DBS Challenging Cable
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And then there were two.The Federal Communication Commission's latest report on the multichannel video market shows cable's only vibrant competition...
DAVID CONNELLL
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People
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Arbitron Cable Carol Edwards to sales manager from senior manager of Eastern accounts.Cartoon Network Online Sam Register to SVP and creative director.Comedy...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Sony's Set-top: No Black Beauty
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Sony's long awaited set-top box allowing Cablevision Systems subscribers to access video-on-demand, the Internet and e-commerce opportunities turned...
ANDREA FIGLER
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Turner Submits, WCW on its Own
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Fans of World Championship Wrestling may get to see the circuit on media platforms outside of TNT and TBS in the wake of the proposed sale of the troubled...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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VOD Patent Battle Turns Bitter
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One of the greatest contributing factors in Robert E. Lee's loss at Gettysburg was his failure to scout the enemy. If you're going to pick a fight with...
BRIAN SANTO
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What's Up, Docs? Ask Court TV
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A murder. A football player on trial. It's high times for Court TV.This time around, the football player is Rae Carruth, not O.J. Simpson. And this time...
JON LAFAYETTE
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