January 22, 2001
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PROGRAMMING
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Bravo Gears Up
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Bravo is ramping up production on new episodes of two of its signature series, while sister network Independent Film Channel is preparing a miniseries...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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The Sentence: Movies
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Court TV is bringing the gavel down on original films.The legal network will produce two or three fact-based telefilms annually, the first of which,...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Cover Story
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WOMEN WANTED
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The King is dead. Now can anyone topple the Queen?After decades of male domination at the top of the Nielsen ratings, Lifetime Television entered 2001...
SHIRLEY BRADY
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The Big Picture
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Cable as Victim
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Rights fees and ticket prices are rising much faster than cable rates.Can the industry help keep sports rights fees down? Earlier this month, my 18-year-old...
ANDY GROSSMAN
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Broadband Content
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Weak Messaging Rules Could Haunt Cable
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Regulation of AOL Time Warner's instant messaging (IM) service by a lame-duck Federal Communications Commission amounts to little more than a fig leaf,...
RICHARD COLE
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Interactive TV
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View Split On Gov't ITV Rules
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The FCC may think it needs to examine the potential pitfalls of interactive TV and is considering placing some regulatory holds on the nascent business,...
K.C. NEEL AND DAVID CONNELL
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Broadband
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DSL Could Be Big For Small Business
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DSL service is most popularly known as a service for the consumer market. As it comes up against increasing competition from cable modems, many analysts...
BRIAN SANTO
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Low Cost, High Frequency Solution For Networking
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If cable operators want to provide high-speed data services to their customers, they can easily string an optical fiber to every home they pass.Of course,...
BRIAN SANTO
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Business
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Earnings to Tell Tales
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As one newly minted media giant, AOL Time Warner, begins the arduous task of integrating its many units, another giant in the cable industry, AT&T, is...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Shareholders Irked By Eisner $$$
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Michael Eisner, who earned the dubious distinction of dead-last place in Business Week's April survey of executive pay and company performance, landed...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Marketplace
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IPO Watch
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These IPOs are scheduled to price in the next four weeks.1. TravelnStore.com, 1.5M maximum shares offered, $6.50 offer price.2. Align Technology, 10M...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Market Comment
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AOL Time Warner stayed busy last week announcing new appointments and fending off rumors of widespread layoffs. At midday Thursday, shares of AOL traded...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Metro Promotes Film Fest
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Metro is looking to add a little marquee value - and some movies - to its New York Stories series.Metro, part of Rainbow Media's suite of MetroChannels,...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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People
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People
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CMT Paul Hastaba to SVP/GM from VP/GM. Stacey Killian Hagewood to VP-creative from director-creative services. Chris Parr to VP-music and talent from...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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Audibles
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Super Choices on Cable Still not convinced about Trent Dilfer or Kerry Collins? Defense doesn't turn you on? Well, given that the Baltimore Ravens' and...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Puff TV
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The Rap on a Rapper Court TV is all over Sean "Puffy" Combs' legal travails in New York like a cheap suit - and the hip hop artist is doing his best...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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VH1 Honor
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Mayors and Music The U.S. Conference of Mayors and Americans for the Arts honored VH1's Save the Music Foundation last week during the Fourth Annual...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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CNN Puts Legal Ads on Retainer
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With an eye toward opening a new advertising category, CNN last week began airing its first ad campaign from a law firm client.Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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FCC Launches Inquiry on ITV
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Interactive television services will go under the Federal Communications Commission's microscope, and the cable industry's not happy about it.The move,...
DAVID CONNELL
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Intertainer Shoots for Starz
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Video-on-demand provider Intertainer wants to add movie network Starz Encore Group to its entertainment selection, a deal that could force Intertainer...
ANDREA FIGLER
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Midterm For Cable
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Highlighting cable's broadband and Internet resources is the goal of Cable in the Classroom's first mid-winter promotion.The "Take Your Parents to Cyberschool"...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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MSO Jobs Avoid Ax
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Cable is often called a recession-proof industry. Will it be for the people who work at MSOs?In recent weeks, several cable and broadcast networks and...
MAVIS SCANLON
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Networking
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1. CHEERING CHARTER - ESPN officials were on hand to celebrate the signing of a TV deal between Charter Communications and the University of California,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Ops Deal With Blackouts
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AT&T Broadband is feeling the pain of California's rolling blackouts.With several cable systems in Northern California, the MSO may have been hit hardest...
ANDREA FIGLER AND BRIAN SANTO
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SPEAKING OUT
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Cablevision is One of Few News Outlets to Air Editorials Special to Cable WorldCablevision Systems' Peter Kohler practices a lost art on television,...
ARTHUR GOLDHABER
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TNN Goes On The Road
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The recently rebranded TNN: The National Network will go on the road and tap improv for its first two original series.Speaking at the TCA winter press...
MIKE REYNOLDS
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Trimmed Down CNN: We're Going Forward
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In the past year, CNN has fallen behind Fox News Channel and MSNBC in the ratings, had to absorb the AOL Time Warner merger, and lost its president,...
JON LAFAYETTE
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What Else Do Women Want? Take them to the movies
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In the course of reporting this week's cover story on women's television, I chatted with Bob Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular...
SHIRLEY BRADY
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Why Bellville Quit Cox
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As one of the most respected top executives in the cable industry, Cox Communications EVP Maggie Bellville was the last person her peers thought would...
ANDY GROSSMAN
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