January 24, 2000
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PROGRAMMING
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ABC Claims Cable Repeats No Cannibalization: Broadcast session of TCA pours on game show mania chatter
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ABC is riding high on the runaway success of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, but company executives insist they aren't relying on reality programming...
Jennifer Pendleton
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MTV, VH1 Roll Out Pop Programming
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MTV got political, but it was a fictional film about two giants of pop that generated most of the heat at the Viacom-owned network's segment of the TCA...
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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Backbone Breaker: The next set of open access headaches
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Let's set the table. Late last year, AT&T announced it would open its cable plant to competing ISPs once its exclusive affiliation deals with Excite
Matt Stump
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Broadband Content
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AOL-Veon Notch Alliance: Deal provides streaming video platform for Net provider
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Aiming to become a dominant force in the broadband market, Veon Inc. has notched a licensing agree-ment with America OnlineInc. to create video programming...
Alan Breznick
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Broadband
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Entrepreneurial Spirit Goes Interactive: Diverse products keep marketplace competitive for all players
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As interactive television rises from suspect technology toward marketable reality, a predictable crop of entrepreneurs with increasingly diverse products...
Karen Brown
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Homing In: Wired or Wireless?
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Home networks will begin to spread this year, although it's anybody's guess what they'll look like.There are three ways in which the home can be networked:...
Jim Barthold
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IBM Siphons its Home Networking Unit
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Prompted by the burgeoning home networking market, computer mainstay IBM Corp. has decided to spin off its home networking unit into a separate company...
Karen Brown
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Business
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Moto's B-band Unit Shines
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Edward Breen was beaming. As the president of Motorola Inc.'s broadband communications sector, or what used to be called General Instrument Corp., the...
Joshua Cho
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Peddling Influence
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When giving to political candidates, telecom and cable companies are extremely generous.According to data compiled by the Federal Election Commission...
Eric Glick
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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TECHS GET BOOST-Stocks opened higher Jan. 20 as robust corporate earnings reports from several technology companies boosted the Nasdaq further.The DJIA...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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Oceanic Card Creates Loyalty: Promotion benefits cable subs and advertisers
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A cable ad sales department in Hawaii came up with a local ad sales campaign that also benefits its MSO's marketing department.Time Warner's Oceanic...
Linda Hardesty
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Snapshot: Kids' Media Usage
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* Three of every five kids ages 12-17 have a TV in their room.* The average American child spends about 1,000 hours per year in school and about 1,642...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Sony Fine Tunes Marketing Strategies
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When upper level managers at AOL and Time Warner begin meeting to discuss synergies, it might be helpful if they took a page from Sony Corp. of America.Soon...
Matt Stump
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People
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A&E
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Carolanne Dolan has been promoted from director to VP-documentary programming and administration. She joined the network in 1995. Prior to that, she...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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Internet Fever: D'oh! You've Got Mail
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At Cable World, we are tres amused that Homer Simpson-a man who doesn't even know what the Internet is-soon will be offering ISP service.So what if he's...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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General
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A Cable Rookie's Confession Learning the language
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Humbly, I kneel before the electronic alter.I have a confession to make: I am a cable rookie.Oh, the guilt. The transgressions have been piling up since...
Karen Brown
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A Disney Delight: Pirates and clones in California
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You have to hand it to the engineers. When it came time to select a spot for its Conference on Emerging Technologies (ET), the SCTE picked the Disneyland...
Jim Barthold
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AT&T BIS Nips at Pac Bell in Bay Area
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AT&T Broadband & Internet Services is offering some Bay Area customers a price break on its high-speed Internet access service if they buy their own...
K.C. Neel
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AtDeadline...
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* The battle over streaming video that's been predicted by some industry observers for months finally got under way last week when Canadian Webster iCraveTV...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Beep Beep, Baby
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In the midst of all this merging and synergy and brave new world bravado, one of the key questions to arise out of the proposed AOL-Time Warner merger...
Karen Brown
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Briefs
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WORLDGATE SIGNS PARTNERS Expanding into the broadband market, two major Web content players have separately swung distribution deals with WorldGate Communications...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Briefs
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GLOBAL CROSSING AGREEMENT Global Crossing Ltd. and Bell Canada subsidiary, BCE Nexxia said Jan. 18 they'd signed a three-year services agreement valued...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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BROADCOM ACQUISITion
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Digital chipmaker Broadcom Corp. took steps to ensure the security of its broadband data networks by acquiring BlueSteel Networks Inc., a semiconductor...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Cece Eyes Bandwidth Gold Mine
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There's a sure way to have enough bandwidth for voice, video and data services: build a whole new network.Digital Access Inc. is doing that. Financed...
Jim Barthold
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Comcast Hits Half Million Digital Subs
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Comcast Cable Communications Inc. has added its 500,000th digital cable subscriber and is still going.To meet that need, the company ordered an additional...
Jim Barthold
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COMPETITIONWATCH
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t According to the FCC's annual competition report, cable controlled 82% of the TV market in 1999, representing a 3% dip from 1998. Meanwhile, DBS subscribers...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Dominos Fall for Interactive TV
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As the dust starts to settle, one thing is clear: America Online's proposed merger with Time Warner Inc. promises to boost the fortunes of Liberate Technologies...
Alan Breznick
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FRANCHISE APPLICATION
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Seren Innovations Inc. filed its formal franchise application to the city of Longmont, Colo., Jan. 11. Local ordinances require a public vote of the...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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In Living Color: World War II
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The images are quite familiar: grainy, black and white photos and footage that somehow put more distance between the events than the 50-plus years when...
Mike Reynolds
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iSKY Forges Ahead
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Aiming to be the " in the Sky" a new startup company is proposing a satellite high-speed Internet service targeting residential customers.Denver-based...
By Karen Brown
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Jermoluk Out
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Excite Corp. CEO Thomas Jermoluk handed over the reins of the broadband Internet service to President George Bell last week.The announcement, timed...
Karen Brown
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Kay On Broadway
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USA Networks founder Kay Koplovitz wants to bring Broadway to the small screen on a regular basis.Koplovitz is chairwoman of Broadway Television Network,...
Mike Reynolds
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Liberty's End Run
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In the wake of the AOL-Time Warner deal, some analysts are calling for AT&T Corp. to take the content plunge. In fact, Ma Bell sits on a gold mine of...
K.C. Neel
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Mincing Millions for Super Bowl Ads
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Are some advertisers really paying as much as $3 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot?An ABC spokeswoman reportedly said the average cost of a Super...
Linda Hardesty
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Music Skips a Beat
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Plagued by frightened record companies, lawsuits and a lackluster Christmas season last year, when curious portable MP3 players were overshadowed by...
Joshua Cho
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No Room in the Inn
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The burgeoning interactive TV market may bring more opportunities to harness the TV, but it is also creating pressure on MSOs from a flock of start-up...
Karen Brown
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On Screen: Call it Fallout
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Last week's revelation that the White House-gasp!-cut deals with all the major broadcasters to air anti-drug messages in exchange for free ad time led...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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On Screen: Turner Answers Question "Tennis Anyone?''
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Pairing with NBC, Turner Sports will bring Wimbledon, tennis's most prestigious tournament, to cable for the first time with 89 hours of coverage on...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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PODs Ready for Take Off
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They might be hard to find, but you could look for digital set-tops in your local electronics superstore this summer.By putting the finishing touches...
Jim Barthold
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PROGRAMMING JOURNEY
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Odyssey Network is broadening its programming roster, as it plans to debut its first original drama series and the initial original mini-series produced...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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Satellite Radio Services Duel for Consumers' Ears
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Now that satellite TV has become a mass-market hit, will satellite radio be next.Two fledgling firms, XM Satellite Radio Inc. and Serius Satellite Radio...
Alan Breznick
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SciFi Goes Original
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Come summer, Sci Fi plans to get original-in a big way.EVP/GM Bonnie Hammer announced at the cable portion of the TCA winter press tour, in Pasadena,...
Mike Reynolds
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Smokin' the Big Pipe: Bandwidth contraints challenge industry
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Just when you thought you were going to reap the rewards of years of rebuilds and upgrades, you discover that the applications guys have gobbled up all...
Jim Barthold
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Spinning Tunes as Content
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America Online Inc. has 20 million Internet subscribers and the number one Web portal. Time Warner Inc. has massive music properties and fat broadband...
Karen Brown
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Terayon Ahead of its Game
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Cable modem maker Terayon Commu-nications Systems Inc. said Jan. 18 that for the fourth quarter of 1999 it had pro forma net income of $1.2 million,...
Joshua Cho
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The Fourth Estate: Anchors Away!
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Our neighbors to the North are evidently just as politically correct as us.After a Canadian network news anchor mistakenly made some comments insulting...
CABLEWORLD STAFF
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The Sky's the Limit for S-A
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The sky's the limit for Scientific-Atlanta Inc. Literally. By selling off its satellite networking business for $75 million to ViaSat Inc., the Atlanta-based...
Jim Barthold
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Tot TV Upfront Kicks Off
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The hotly contested and competitive kids' upfront market kicked off last week with yet-to-be-launched newcomer Discovery Kids rushing to market with...
Linda Hardesty
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Wall Street Bullish On Cable Values
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In the wake of the Jan. 14 America Online-Time Warner Inc. merger, Wall Street has good news and bad news, depending on whether you are in the market...
Joshua Cho
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