February 17, 2003
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PROGRAMMING
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BRIEFS
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OUTDOOR CHANNEL NAMED LEAD DOG FOR IDITAROD Outdoor Channel agreed to become the official cable network of the 2003 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which...
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Coming Up
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FANS MIGHT BE TAKEN WITH SCI FI'S ?DUNE? Sci Fi Channel is at it again. After having a smash hit with its maximum-length miniseries from...
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MBC ADDING NEWS TO ITS FAMILY
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Major Broadcasting Cable Network officials hope MSO holdouts will pick up their new MBC News service in addition to their original family entertainment...
Shirley Brady
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Tyson Fight Leads Big PPV Jump to $2.5B
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Revenue generated by pay-per-view programming jumped 19% to $2.5 billion in 2002 thanks to the continued increase in the number of digital cable homes,...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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Getting Local in New York's Capital
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Time Warner Cable is making news in Albany. In October, it launched Capital News 9, a 24-hour local news channel. The service has raised TWC's profile...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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COLUMNS
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The show is over and the dogs have gone home. Now, will somebody please tell me why Joe wasn't in the booth?
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You probably always assumed what the ?USA? in USA Networks stood for. You were wrong. It stands for ?Utterly Senseless Absurdity?...
BY ALICIA MUNDY
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General
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Addenda and Corrections
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The complexity of operating a merged CNN-ABC News operation has prompted AOL Time Warner to call off talks with ABC News parent Disney, AOL executives...
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All-Star Springboard for TNT
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Traffic on the ground caused problems for people attending the glittery NBA All-Star weekend, but traffic on the air brought nothing but smiles from...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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BRIEFS
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NIELSEN PITCHES MINUTE RATINGS Nielsen Media Research is pitching to a small group of ad agencies and networks a new service that would provide minute-by-minute,...
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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AP Mike Palmer to director of broadcast digital distribution systems and strategy, from director of technology and development for the broadcast division....
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Classic Investment a Winter Seedling for Kent's Growth Plan
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Former Charter Communications CEO Jerry Kent jumped back into the cable industry last week when his firm, Cequel III, struck a deal to invest in and...
BY STACI D. KRAMER AND K. C. NEEL
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FLYNT MAY FIND A BARGAIN
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Larry Flynt may find New Frontier Media Inc. an attractive jumping-off point for starting an adult network. Last Friday, NOOF released earnings for its...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Flynt Ponders Adult Channel
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Porn king Larry Flynt is considering a Hustler-style adult channel for cable and direct broadcast satellite markets. ?We are exploring the viability...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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HONEY, I LOST THE KIDS
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The eerie feeling that kids are being overprogrammed is not confined to cable. Broadcast is leaking viewers as well. We took a look at gross weekly audience...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Kids Komeuppance
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This could be the year that simple-minded SpongeBob Squarepants gets a lesson in supply and demand. Fewer kids are watching commercial TV. Except for...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Late Breaking News
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Discovery Shrugs Off TiVo Test TiVo may be God's machine, but some users are finding the digital recording device less than divine. Subscribers to the...
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Letters
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Big Media vs. Independent Ops To the Editor: Thank you for your story (?Retrans Consent Deals Get Tougher Every Day,? Feb. 10), which shows...
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NCC Grows to Meet Expected Ad Jump
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After recording 24% growth in spot ad sales in 2002, National Cable Communications is forecasting a 20% increase in spending by national advertisers...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Ratings
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Top 40 Basic Cable Ad-Supported ProgramsWeek of February 3-9, 2003 ...
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THERE'S A NEW GUIDE IN TOWN
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Moving into territory occupied by TV Guide, E! Networks has created a program for Comcast that's designed to be a guide to video-on-demand programming....
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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TNT SCORES BIG
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The $2.4 billion rights deal that brought the NBA to cable seems to be paying off. TNT has boasted that the 2003 NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 9 was the...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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TOO MANY KIDS IN THE HALL?
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There was a day when the world was divided between those who grew up with TV and those who didn't. Today, that divide is between those who grew up with...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Would Consumers Buy A Bundle From a Telco?
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If SBC Communications CEO Edward Whitacre has his way, the big telco will finally offer a truly bundled package of services to compete with cable's ?triple...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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