January 20, 2003
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PROGRAMMING
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A Tale of Two New Networks
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More cable networks are on the way. They're looking to fill a variety of niches and to have very different pedigrees. With Comcast as one of its major...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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BRIEFS
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CHARTER GIVES HDNET FIRST FOOTHOLD WITH CABLE Charter Communications agreed to carry two around-the-clock, high-definition networks: HDNet and HDNet...
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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BRIEFS
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SEACHANGE, MANTICOM GETTIN' GIGE WITH IT Manticom Networks last week announced that it has successfully completed interoperability tests between its...
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War Games in Miami Beach
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As metaphors go, you'd be hard-pressed to top the sweeping marble staircase in the lobby of Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel. A promenade that functions...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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Big Growth Spurt In a Small Region
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Rhode Island is a little state with a big reputation. Unfortunately, that rep is for government corruption. The misuse of public funds ran rampant at...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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COLUMNS
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The CES used to be enemy territory for cable execs.Not this year. Still, there's much work to be done.
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What a difference a year makes. Last year, a cluster of cable CEOs and other industry executives ventured into enemy territory at the Consumer Electronics...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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General
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A Good Week for Kids as Three Cable Initiatives Get Promoted
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The cable industry furthered its commitment to families last week with initiatives to assist kids ? and likely impress parents. Cox Communications...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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BRIEFS
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YAEGER UPPED AT TW Time Warner Cable promoted Lynn M. Yaeger to EVP of corporate affairs, making her one of the cable industry's highest-ranked women...
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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ADELPHIA David Limebrook to VP-marketing, Florida, from VP-marketing for Time Warner's national division, Denver, Colo. CABLEVISION James Maiella Jr....
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CNN's News Chief Says Beating Fox Isn't Job One
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If you can't beat them ignore them. That's the attitude of the top executives running CNN when it comes to overtaking Fox News Channel in the ratings...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Comcast Begins Big VOD Push
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Here's a scenario for you: You're sitting around the house on a cold January afternoon. You've been told by your local cable company that they've got...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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DIRECTING PROGRAMMING
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DirecTV's programming costs jumped 16.7% YOY to gobble up almost 44% of total expenses. Though the company did a nice job of cutting SG&A and COGS to...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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DirecTV Expecting Slower Subscriber Growth This Year
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When it comes to signing up new customers, this won't be a banner year for the nation's largest provider of satellite services. DirecTV said last week...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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IT'S A DEAL
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Despite repeated objections from its largest shareholders, the Adelphia Communications board of directors late last week OK'd revised employment contracts...
BY ANDREA FIGLER AND MAVIS SCANLON
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KNOW YOUR NODE
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Comcast's boast to serve VOD to all their 600,000 digital subs at once is interesting. Though no modern network actually works on 100% simultaneous usage,...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Late Breaking News
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Rooney Heads Labeling Group Negotiators for the cable industry are turning to the marketing experts for advice in one important aspect of the plug-and-play...
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Media Ownership Forum Draws Powell and Co.
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With more than 2,000 submissions received on the 12 studies commissioned by the FCC's media ownership task force, Chairman Michael Powell and his commissioners...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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Ratings
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Top 40 Basic Cable Ad-Supported ProgramsWeek of January 6-12, 2003 ...
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SoapNet Is Eyeing Two Spin-Off Networks
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Tune in tomorrow and maybe SoapNet will have an evil twin or two. Okay, so maybe it won't be so evil. But after three successful years, SoapNet GM Deborah...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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The FCC: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery
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It was a cold November day outside, but inside the Washington Marriott, Michael Copps was on fire. That's a relative term, in that Copps, an older gentleman...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Two words provide an object lesson in the vital importance of proper and competent political representation in Washington: Charlie Ergen. The proposed...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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The Politics of Inertia
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As the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on telecom issues entered its fourth hour last Tuesday, a reporter sneaking out was begged by a Federal Communications...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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