January 18, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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AHN Hails a Third Birthday With New Shows
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America's Health Network (AHN) will be offering its viewers more programming balm in the form of one half-dozen new shows.Highlighting the new entries,...
Mike Reynolds
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Evert Makes ESPN's Top 50 Athletes List
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Mario Lemieux (No. 55) didn't make it. Neither did Rocky Marciano (51), Pete Rose (56) or Dan Marino (75). But Chris Evert did.Tennis' "Ice Princess"...
Mike Reynolds
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International Channel Expands Global Programming
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Looking to attract a more global audience, International Channel (IC) is revamping its programming lineup, incorporating more hallmarks of a broadcast...
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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A TELEPHONE VIEW: Open competition with the government
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If you think the upheavals that blur the lines between cable, telephone and the Internet are making life hard for cable associations, the same thing...
Matt Stump
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Business
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Century and TCA Cable Announce Earnings
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New Canaan, Conn.-based Century Communications Corp. last week said that it had increases in second quarter consolidated operating performance but posted...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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AGAINST THE WIND: The Kagan Cable MSO Average weathered the storm that hit the general markets last week after Brazil devalued its currency and the country's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Consumers Love Electronics
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Nearly half of the respondents in a new CTAM study said they will buy entertainment equipment or services in the next 12 months. The problem is, more...
Max Lenderman
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Product Pitches Increase on Web
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Internet marketing strategies are heating up, and the Web's is continuing to make strides as a viable advertising vehicle.Since the first of January,...
Max Lenderman
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Webcasts Give AHN a Healthy Boost
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America's Health Network has jumped wholeheartedly onto the Internet bandwagon with live webcasts of women giving birth, brain surgery and hair transplants.The...
Max Lenderman
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People
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People
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CBS CABLE: Ronald C. Kelly joins CBS Cable as publicist for TNN. He had been assistant managing editor of TVSM's The Cable Guide, Total TV and See magazines....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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Barry Watch: Diller's Still Shopping Around
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Media kingpin Barry Diller is apparently back to shopping for a studio and oh, maybe a couple of cable networks like say, Cablevision Systems Corp.'s...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Executive Suite: Moyer Moseys to the Big Apple
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Greg Moyer was one of the first guys to sign on at Discovery Channel, joining the nascent network some six weeks after it launched in 1985. Over the...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Heaven Can't Wait: Church Recruits Priests on MTV
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It has come to this: the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence R.I. is looking to a recruit a few good men via MTV and the Internet (www.catholicpriest.com).Indeed,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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AOL and Bell Atlantic Strike Competitive Deal
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Escalating its battle with cable operators in the Northeast, Bell Atlantic Corp. will team up with America Online Inc. (AOL) to offer high-speed data...
Alan Breznick
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AT&T Warns Cities: Don't Threaten US
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AT&T Corp. is threatening to withhold millions of dollars for system upgrades in cities where local regulators are demanding that the telecommunications...
K.C. Neel
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AT&T-TCI Merger Proxy Points Up Problems
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Rather than clarify a complicated deal, the AT&T Corp.-Tele-Communications, Inc. merger proxy made public Jan. 8 brought out more questions and problems...
Joshua Cho
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Broadcasters Say They Won't Copy Cable
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Cable hung heavy in the air at the TV Critics Association's winter press tour last week, with broadcast executives dismissing cable networks' impact...
Jennifer Pendleton
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CES' Las Vegas Confab Bets On Digital TV
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Digital television was all over the place at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, not just on the expansive trade show floor but in the minds...
Max Lenderman
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Coax: The Monster Pipe That Packs A Big Punch
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Cable was not AT&T Corp.'s first choice to access local networks. The telecommunications giant found one possibility wanting and was spurned by its own...
Jim Barthold
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Convergys Delivers Billing and Subscriber Care
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While much of the past year's buzz has been about cable industry opportunities to move into other telecommunications arenas - telephony and high-speed...
Jim Barthold
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Cox Communications Starts '99 on a High Note
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Starting off the new year optimistically, Atlanta-based Cox Communications, Inc. said last week that it expects double-digit pro forma '99 revenue and...
Joshua Cho
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DirecTV and EchoStar Launch Splashy Promos
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Fresh off record monthly and yearly subscriber gains, DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. are launching splashy new consumer promotions and...
Alan Breznick
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FCC Comish Calls for Cooperation on DTV Issues
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Susan Ness, the FCC's current commissioner, who has served the longest term, wants the cable industry to cooperate with other sectors of the communications...
Eric Glick
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Jordan's Retirement Leaves NBA, TNT, NBC Hanging
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With Michael Jordan's retirement from the NBA, one of the key questions remains is how much Air will be taken out of the TV ratings on Turner Sports...
Mike Reynolds
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Lucent, King of Broadband Networking Biz
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Lucent Technologies Inc. last week paid over $21 billion to grab a firm foothold in the converged telecommunications marketplace.The company spent $20...
Jim Barthold
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Montana's Burns Chides FCC for Slow Internet Deployment
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The FCC came under fire last week from an influential lawmaker for failing to take action on a key provision in the Telecommunications Act of 1996.Section...
Eric Glick
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National Satellite Radio Preps For Launch
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A startup headed by a veteran cable industry executive is bidding to become the DirecTV of digital satellite radio.XM Satellite Radio Inc., a venture...
Alan Breznick
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NBC Looks for Better Balance in Programming Lineup
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Faced with continued ratings erosion to cable and rising studio program production costs, NBC Entertainment President Scott Sassa outlined a new family-friendly...
Jennifer Pendleton
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Prasara Seeks to Make Interactivity Real
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After years of nurturing Time Warner Cable Inc.'s Full Service Network (FSN) in Orlando, the executives at Prasara Technologies Inc. figured they had...
Jim Barthold
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San Diego Cable System Works Smarter
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Cox Cable San Diego has surpassed the 500,000-subscriber mark, propelling the Southern California cable system into an elite group with only seven other...
K.C. Neel
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SkyConnect Inc. Expands Technical Staff
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SkyConnect Inc. has beefed up its digital programming insertion efforts by naming Jay B. Schiller to the new position of chief technical officer (CTO)....
Jim Barthold
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Testing MPEG-2
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The latest installment of DigiPoints addresses a set of tests that assure digital data integrity - tests of the MPEG data (MPEG stands for Moving Pictures...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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TIVO Seeks Recruits for VCR-like TV Service
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Plunging into the emerging markets for interactive TV and video-on-demand applications, a Silicon Valley startup is recruiting cable operators and DBS...
Alan Breznick
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Tracking AT&T Cable Affils Get Dial Tone
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AT&T Corp. has been talking the talk about what it will do when it gets hold of cable's local networks. Now it gets to walk the walk with Bresnan Communications...
Jim Barthold
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Trio Teams for Set-Top Box Reference Design
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Oak Technology Inc. will provide semiconductor solutions for the Hitachi Semiconductor/Cisco Systems Inc. Networks Program set-top box reference design....
Jim Barthold
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WebTV and Wink Step into Satellite Market
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Moving into the satellite TV market for the first time, two interactive TV firms have notched key national distribution agreements with rival DBS providers.WebTV...
Alan Breznick
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