February 22, 1999
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PROGRAMMING
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Disney Goes 'to Pot' for Parents and Toddlers
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Disney Channel tackles a touchy issue for some parents and their toddlers when it explores potty training on an upcoming episode of Bear in the Big Blue...
Mike Reynolds
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Encore Places 'Directors' at Helm of 26-Episode Series
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Premium movie network Encore is jumping into original series production with The Directors, a one-hour monthly profile examining some of film's best...
Mike Reynolds
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LANSKY: MAFIA HONCHO
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Toward the conclusion of Lansky, the HBO biopic about the Jewish immigrant largely credited with organizing the Mafia into an outfit "bigger than U.S....
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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New Game Shows Play It Up for Fresh Image
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Looking to expand the confines of the genre's traditional format, Game Show Network will debut this spring with two series that break from old conventions.The...
Mike Reynolds
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The Big Picture
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BETTER MOUSETRAPS: Putting all the tools in place
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The re-invigorated push by cable operators to rebuild plant is the subject of an extensive "Special Report" in this week's issue.With the prospect of...
Matt Stump
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The Big Picture
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A tip of the hat to Cable World's founding publisher Tom Southwick, who will receive The Cable Center's Maxwell Media Award for career achievement at...
Matt Stump
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Business
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United Video Goes to the Source for JV
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United Video Satellite Group Inc. has teamed up with Source Media Inc. to form a joint venture that will offer local content and interactive services...
Joshua Cho
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Marketplace
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Market Comment
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BUFFETT EFFECT: Famed stock-picker and billionaire Warren Buffett's acquisition of 8% of TCA Cable TV Inc.'s stock helped spur the company's shares 15%...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Marketing & Advertising
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CTAM Survey Probes Telecom Buying Habits
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The latest issue of Pulse, CTAM's research publication, looks at customers' purchase or subscription decision-making attitudes in an increasingly consolidated...
Max Lenderman
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DirecTV-Columbia TriStar Do Deal
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Beginning March 1, DirecTV will sell local avails through an exclusive, multi-year partnership with Columbia TriStar Advertiser Sales (CTAS), Columbia...
Max Lenderman
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ESPN's X Games Sell Out Gold
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Its sponsors know a good thing when they see it, so there's not much surprise that ESPN's 1999 Summer X Games has sold out its gold sponsorships for...
Max Lenderman
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MTV Beefs Up Its Asian Web Site Presence
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Spreading its wings in cyberspace, MTV Networks formed a joint venture with Tricast Ltd. last week to create English, Chinese and probably several other...
Alan Breznick
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People
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People
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CISNEROS TELEVISION GROUP: Rodrigo Piza has been named general manager of Locomotion(tm), the only animation channel for teens and young adults. Locomotion(tm)...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Between the Lines
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Bad Penny Report: Albert's Back & Turner's Got Him
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Well, it hardly seemed like he ever left, did it? But Marv Albert returns to TV in April, compliments of Turner Sports which last week announced it had...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Executive Suite: Fuchs Wiseacres; Biondi Consults
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Speaking at an HRTS lunch last week in L.A., some of cable's top programmers, including Turner's Brad Siegel, Showtime's Jerry Offsay and USA Network's...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Now For Something Completely Different: Kiwis Present the Fringe Games
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Now there's a new kid on the sports block, the Fringe Games, which feature such unorthodox sports as Balinese pole-climbing, the assisted high jump,...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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On Screen: VH1 to ABC: "I've Got You Babe"
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VH1 continues efforts to up the programming ante for middle-aged audiences by trading on-air promotion time for early rerun rights. Last week the cable...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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General
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3Com Gains Notch On 's Food Chain
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3Com Corp. has become the first cable modem vendor to receive Network Inc.'s Level II approval for both its Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications...
Jim Barthold
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Adelphia Cool to Partnering with AT&T
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Some cable operators aren't convinced that partnering with AT&T Corp. makes the most sense when it comes to residential telephony service over cable...
Joshua Cho
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Allen's Latest Buy: Rifkin and InterLink
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After spending almost $8 billion last year to get his foot in the cable industry's door, billionaire Paul Allen finally seems to appreciate the nuances...
K.C. Neel
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AT&T Opens IP Telephony Lab to Push Standards
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AT&T Corp. has thrown open the doors of its vaunted research facilities to expedite interoperable Internet Protocol (IP) telephony standards.An initial...
Jim Barthold
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AT&T, TCI Shareholders OK Telco-Cable Deal
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The only thing left to complete AT&T Corp.'s $32-billion takeover of Tele-Communications Inc. is the fat lady's song as shareholders of both firms OK'd...
K.C. Neel and Eric Glick
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Building Cable's Big Pipe
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It's always been cable's technological manifest destiny. Build a bigger and better cable system and sell more services to consumers.As cable heads toward...
Jim Barthold
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C-SPAN Shut Out of Senate Impeachment Hearings
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With the impeachment trial of President Clinton now just a memory, some news networks are feeling the fallout of the U.S. Senate's decision to close...
Eric Glick
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Cable and Internet Hit Big Three in the Pocketbook
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The big three broadcast networks have been unable to stop the erosion of its viewers to alternative media like cable and the Internet and are losing...
Joshua Cho
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CATA Closes Doors, Gets Absorbed by NCTA
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After 25 years of representing "disenfranchised small and independent cable operators," the Cable Telecommunications Association announced last week...
Eric Glick
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Cogeco to Buy Cisco Routers A Jim Barthold
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Cogeco Cable Inc. will use Cisco Systems Inc.'s broadband routers and integrated modem cards to deliver Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Comcast, Charter Gobble Up Greater Media
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After almost three decades as a privately held MSO counting about 252,000 customers, Greater Media Inc. is cashing out of the cable operations business,...
K.C. Neel
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De La Hoya-Quartey PPV Wrangle Generates $27M
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Attracting attention from both Hispanic and non-Hispanic households, boxing's "Golden Boy," Oscar De La Hoya, pulled in a significant amount of pay-per-view...
Mike Reynolds
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Divney Named As Comedy Central Topper
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Top positions at two cable networks were filled last week, with Comedy Central turning internally and Lifetime Television reaching into the broadcast...
Mike Reynolds
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FasTV Pursues Cable Content Partners
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A Southern California startup that provides TV programming clips over the Internet, is aggressively seeking cable networks, broadcasters and film producers...
Alan Breznick
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HEEDING CABLE'S HISTORY LESSONS
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Perception, a set-top salesman once told me, can be reality; and even paranoid people have enemies.If you perceive you're being gouged, it's likely you...
CABLE WORLD STAFF
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Lawmakers Focus on Satellite Industry Reforms
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It will be a busy week on Capitol Hill as lawmakers begin work in earnest on legislation that will dramatically reform federal policy guiding how satellite...
Eric Glick
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Lawmakers Focus on Satellite TV Reforms
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It will be a busy week on Capitol Hill as lawmakers begin work in earnest on legislation that will dramatically reform federal policy guiding how satellite...
Eric Glick
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McLeod Rejects ISP Access Fees in Iowa
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As the cable industry expands its horizons and blurs its lines of business, thorny issues including franchise fee calculations and rights-of-way will...
K.C. Neel
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Retail Cable Modems Headed For Market
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The sometimes agonizingly slow process to reach cable modem standards, culminating next month when CableLabs certifies the first Data Over Cable Service...
Jim Barthold
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Road Runner Rallys with Fox and SportsLine
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Playing catchup ball with archrival Network, Road Runner has penned broadband content deals with two major online players, News America Digital...
Alan Breznick
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TCA Cable Takes Alternate High-Speed Route
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TCA Cable TV Inc. wanted to offer high-speed data services last year. But it didn't want to first have to upgrade its plant to do it."We launched in...
Jim Barthold
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TCI Cuts Approval Pact with Seattle and King County
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With a reserved blessing last week from the Seattle City Council and Metropolitan King County Council, Tele-Communications Inc. is only four franchise...
K.C. Neel
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Unbundling War: OpenNet Eyes Broadcasters
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Undeterred by the FCC's prompt approval last week of AT&T Corp.'s $32-billion deal to buy Tele-Communications Inc., a new lobbying group spearheaded...
Alan Breznick
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Vendors Belly-Up To Cable's Buffet Table
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Cable's advanced networks have laid out a smorgasbord of opportunities that have both traditional and non-traditional vendors bellying-up to grab their...
Jim Barthold
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