March 10, 2003
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PROGRAMMING
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Coming Up
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LOWE AND NEILL CLICK IN TNT'S ?FRAMED? TNT's new original movie, Framed, starring Rob Lowe and Sam Neill and set to air April 13, is essentially...
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DISCOVERY MAKES DOCUMENTARY DEAL
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Looking to boost its standing among both filmmakers and viewers of serious documentaries, Discovery Communications last week formed a joint venture that...
Jon Lafayette
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TechTV Reboots Program Lineup For Late Night
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TechTV wants to shed its pocket protector when it goes out at night. The network is going from cybergeek to cyberpunk cool on April 28 with a new late-night...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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DIGITAL PIPELINE
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COMCAST'S TELEPHONY PULLBACK?
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While it's too soon to formally ratchet down our telephony projections, it's not too early to get a sense of the effect of Comcast's new guidance. Assuming...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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On Hold: Comcast Delays VoIP Launch
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Wait 'til next year. As battle cries go, it's a bit tepid, carrying with it an association with the world's most lovable losers, the Brooklyn Dodgers....
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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MEET THE SYSTEM
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Comcast Rolls Back Into South Florida
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Before Comcast could impress its new customers in south Florida, it needed to wow its employees, most of whom until recently worked under the AT&T Broadband...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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General
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BRIEFS
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CEDAR POINT ROUNDS UP ANOTHER $25M IN FUNDING Cedar Point Communications has secured $25 million in its second round of funding from a consortium that...
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BRIEFS
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SCHLEYER AND COOPER FINALLY SETTLE IN Now they can really get to work. A New York bankruptcy court judge OK'd Adelphia's motion to hire Bill Schleyer...
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Buyers at Four A's Call for Media Verification Audit
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Media buyers are about to put cable networks under the microscope to see if they're getting the spots their clients are paying for. At the American Association...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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CABLE CONNECTIONS
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AMERICA ONLINE Stephen Swad to CFO, from EVP of finance and accounting for Turner Broadcasting System. CEDAR POINT COMMUNICATIONS J. Curt Hockemeier...
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Cable Takes Its ?Lumps?
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Cable could use a little comedy right now, given the unrelenting bleakness the industry seems to be mired in of late. And while the Kagan World Media...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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DirecTV Targets Yankees Fans With Spring Campaign
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With spring training underway and opening day just around the corner, DirecTV is launching a new marketing campaign this week aimed at reminding New...
BY STACI D. KRAMER
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Ethnic Nets Speak Same Lingo
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At least 20 foreign-language networks next week will form an association geared to improve the advertising position and regulatory stance of international...
BY ANDREA FIGLER
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Game Show Net Puts Interactive Spin on Old Shows
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Who says you can't teach a new dog new tricks? For the first time, Game Show Network is adding a modern interactive component to some of its classic...
BY JON LAFAYETTE
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LAST MOVIE MAN STANDING
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Susquehanna's movie supplier turns out to be Internet bubble survivor CinemaNow. This Hollywood-based start-up has done what POP, DEN and the other online...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Late Breaking News
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DirecTV May Drop ABC Family Satellite provider DirecTV plans to dump ABC Family from its lineup at the end of this month unless the network lowers its...
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Rainbow Adds an ?E? Before VOD
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At last week's Kagan VOD Summit, Kagan World Media COO and senior analyst Larry Gerbrandt cracked that the first time he heard the expression XOD, he...
BY ANTHONY CRUPI
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Ratings
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| Top 40 Basic Cable Ad-Supported ProgramsWeek of February 24-March 2, 2003 |
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Showdown in Bristol County
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There are only two major north-south roads that run through Bristol County, R.I., a couple of peninsulas that extend into Narragansett Bay between Providence...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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SPEAKING IN TONGUES
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While foreign-language content is a significant niche, serving that niche is going to take some finesse. A look at Hispanic viewers shows a range of...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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Susquehanna Sweetens HSD Pot With One-Stop Broadband Content
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Susquehanna Communications' enriched broadband content might be available elsewhere on the Web, but the top 20 MSO is banking on the appeal of one-stop...
BY SHIRLEY BRADY
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THE BATTLE OF BRISTOL
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The struggle between Full Channel TV and Cox Communications over Bristol County, R.I., is particularly vivid. Rhode Island is one the few states that...
BY JONATHAN BLUM, KAGAN
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THE CLOCK IS TICKING
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In early December, after months of turmoil, Charter Communications appointed cable veteran Maggie Bellville to the position of EVP of operations. Job...
BY MAVIS SCANLON
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Who knew in '93 that the two-way plant would sprout the HSD business?
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Like a marathon runner's legs, the FCC has begun to show some stress fractures as a result of its split decision affecting the Bells and their competitors....
MIKE LUFTMAN
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With War Looming, Arabic Networks See an Opening
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Just in time for the seemingly imminent war in Iraq, Arabic networks are launching channels, although new programming in the United States is likely...
BY ANDREA FIGLER AND SHIRLEY BRADY
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