March 4, 2002
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PROGRAMMING
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briefs
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IT'S NOT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ? IT'S HBO The director of the Austin Powers films and pay service...
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Comedy Takes ABC's The Job Part Time
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In the latest in a spate of cable deals repurposing programs from the broadcast networks, Comedy Central...
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Madison Square Garden Steps Into Batter's Box
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For those to whom Mickey Mantle, center fielder for the New York Yankees during the '50s and '60s, mattered,...
by will lee
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Business
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briefs
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TELUS CORP. DIALS UP BROADJUMP SOFTWARE Broadband software provider BroadJump has scored another DSL partner....
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Upgrade Demands Sink Liberty's German Deals
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Although Liberty Media failed to become Germany's largest cable operator, chairman John Malone's hopes...
by k. c. neel
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Marketplace
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companies in the news
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WALT DISNEY CO. (NYSE: DIS) Goldman Sachs expects Disney shares to come under pressure this quarter. Goldman...
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DOW JONES VS. CABLE MSO WATCH
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INSIDER SPOTLIGHT
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People
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a&e networks Robert Edney to VP-advertising sales, Eastern region, from VP-advertising sales planning....
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General
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At the Table With the Big Boys
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According to local legend, ?Grandpa Pete? Christensen picked up the Mashell Telephone Company...
by christopher schultz
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briefs
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OCAP CONFERENCE DRAWS 90 PARTICIPANTS Cable Television Laboratories says representatives from nearly 90...
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Comcast Is Ready to Roll Out Multiple ISPs
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Following Time Warner Cable's lead, Comcast will soon offer subscribers multiple choices in Internet access...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Comcast to FCC: Merger Will Save $1.9B
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Comcast Corp. expects to reap up to $1.9 billion in annual cost savings and additional revenues within...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Corrections
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On page 19 of the Feb. 18 issue, it was incorrectly stated that the New York Interconnect licenses Adlink's...
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COURT TV'S $6M MOVIE TICKET
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Court TV plans to spend $6 million to promote its first original movie, Guilt by Association. The film...
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DIGITAL DRIVE: WHERE MSOs STAND WITH DIGITAL DEPLOYMENTS
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Adelphia Communications 2001 performance In the third quarter Adelphia added 179,000 digital customers,...
Mavis Scanlon
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DISCOVERY ON THE HUNT FOR RODGERS SUCCESSOR
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Discovery Communications has begun a search to replace Discovery Networks' U.S. president, Johnathan Rodgers,...
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Don't Call My Network Digital
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The newest dirty word in cable programmers' lexicon rhymes with rich. With a certain degree of affectation,...
BY WILL LEE
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Driving Digital
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Jim Robbins, chairman and CEO of Cox Communications, discussed the slowdown in growth of the cable industry's...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Early Read on Kids Market Looks Better than 2001-'02
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At a time when serious doubts continue to linger over the overall advertising marketplace, the children's...
BY JOE MANDESE SPECIAL FROM MEDIA BUYER'S DAILY
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GOLDPOCKET BUYS MIXED SIGNALS
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Interactive content provider GoldPocket Interactive acquired competitor Mixed Signals ITV Professional...
Andrea Figler
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IBM Looks to Provide VOD Services to Operators
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IBM is turning its attention to digital media, and that means cable operators will be seeing more of Big...
by richard cole
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Investors Still Have Jitters Over The Slow Deployment of ITV
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Will interactive TV stocks ever come back? In early 2000, interactive TV shares were soaring along with...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Late Breaking News
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Phone Spinoff Skips Payment Adelphia Business Solutions missed a $15.3 million interest payment due March...
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Local Channels Offered to Smooth Satellite Merger
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Charlie Ergen, the CEO of EchoStar Communications, this week will try to convince the Senate Judiciary...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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Los Angeles Reports Rapid Rise In Cable Customer Complaints
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Formal consumer complaints about cable service in Los Angeles increased 117% last year compared with 2000,...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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Lucent Buy Gives CSG International Reach
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CSG Systems International Inc. last week completed the acquisition of Lucent Technologies' billing and...
BY K. C. NEEL
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Merrill Analyst Sets Off Bull Run on Cable
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Cable stocks, which have fallen about 19% year-to-date, rebounded Friday, following a bullish call on the...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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MSOs Play Up Rollout Of Interactive Services
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For years people have been saying interactive TV was ready for prime time. It's good to go. It's right...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Paper Channels Give Early Look at Cross-Ownership
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Last month's ruling by a U.S. Appeals Court appeared to open the door to a world in which cross-ownership...
by christopher schultz
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Ratings
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TOP 20 BASIC CABLE AD-SUPPORTED PROGRAMS WEEK OF...
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Study Finds Demand for Networking
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Cable operators are looking to home networking as another way to maximize revenue from the broadband pipeline...
BY RICHARD COLE
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The Killer Upgrade
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Via digital, cable operators will soon offer video-on-demand, commercial-free music, interactive program...
BY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ
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TRAVEL CHANNEL TO TAKE A HIKE
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The Travel Channel may be losing its analog ticket to ride in the parts of the key New York market served...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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Value of Media Deals Declines By 65%
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Dollar value for priced media mergers and acquisitions in 2001 totaled $243.6 billion at year-end, a 65%...
BY BRIAN ALLEN SPECIAL FROM KAGAN MEDIA MONEY
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Vendors Still Spending On R&D
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Despite reduced spending on upgrades and the lower advanced service most cable operators are projecting,...
BY TREVOR ESCH SPECIAL FROM KAGAN BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY
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WINK TO CARRY TWO WAY TV CHANNELS
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Wink Communications last week made a deal to get into the interactive game market with Two Way TV (U.S.)....
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